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Title: "Ship Galatea of Boston 1041 Tons Register off point Lignus [Point Lynas light marking approach to Liverpool] March 5th, 1862 Capt. George B. Wendell" Accession Number: 1943.1156 Category: PAINTINGS - OIL Type: oil painting Maker: Yorke, William Gay Place: GREAT BRITAIN, Wales, Anglesey Date: March 05, 1862 Materials: Description: Oil painting; clipper ship GALATEA (built 1854, Charlestown, MA); port view, under full sail on starboard tack; land and pilot schooner 3 THE DUKE (bt. Liverpool 1852) at left, other vessels at right; signed lower left "Ship Galatea of Boston 1041 Tons Register/ off point Lignus [Point Lynas light marking approach to Liverpool] March 5th, 1862 Capt. George B. Wendell" and lower right "Wm York L'pool March/ 1862". Point Lynas Lighthouse erected 1835 - north coast of Wales, marking approach to Liverpool.

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