The Notebooks of Kelsick Wood 3

 The Notebooks of Kelsick Wood 3.

The Maryport Maritime Museum Notebook.

Dated 1837.

Post in Preparation.

A digital copy of the Maryport Notebook kindly provided by Sue Fox whose assistance has been greatly appreciated.

I will post a selection of images from this notebook.

Including references to James Fell the carver of the bust of Kelsick Wood.

see Page 40 below 

For an in depth post on this bust see -

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-bust-of-kelsick-wood-by-james-fell.html

Frontispiece.

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Page 5 - Shares in Ships Loss and Gain since 1793.

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Page 6 - Shares in Ships Loss and Gain since 1793 continued.

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Page 7 - Shares in Ships Loss and Gain since 1793 continued.

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Page 8 - Shares in Ships Loss and Gain since 1793 continued.

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Drawing of ships prow and figurehead opposite page 7.

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Drawing of boat opposite page 8.

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Notes on the Brig Black Prince.

In March 1890 she foundered after being in a collision with SS Albert off Skinningrove en route from Hartlepool to Portsmouth, She was carrying a cargo of coal.

The master RK Dixon and crew of 9 were rescued. She was then owned by RK Smith of Robin Hood Bay

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 Page 46, Brig The Black Prince.

Admeasured by James Fell 22 May 1838.

Below is a low resolution image of the model of the brig Black Prince in the Liverpool Museums store.

Kindly provided by John Ferguson.

This image is from Archive of the Wood Family - West Cumberland Timber Ship Builders

Letters and Documents 1722 -1937, by John and Ann Ferguson pub.by Coldharbour Press 2024 .

Available to order from Fergcoldharbour@aol.com

The Black Prince image below from

Maryport's Great Shipbuilding Yards & Ships by Miss Annie Robinson, MBE

Annie Robinson was one of the main movers responsible for setting up the Maryport Maritime Museum in 1975 in The Queens Head on the Corner of Senhouse Street and Curzon Street.

https://maryporthistory.uk/shipbuilding-yards-and-ships-1765-1911-introduction/

Figurehead of the Black Prince.

now in the Pannet Park Museum ,Whitby.

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The Notebooks of Kelsick Wood 2.

 

The Notebooks of Kelsick Wood 2.

Dated 1839.

(Post in preparation).

National Maritime Museum Greenwich

Their ref SPB - 45 2

Kelsick Wood - looking glum - a self portrait?

Page 3 - Costings for the ship Carib.

The Notebooks of Kelsick Wood 1.

 

The Notebooks/ Sketchbooks/ Journals of Kelsick Wood, Part 1.

Held at The National Maritime Museum Archives.

Post in preparation.

So far I have only had complete access to three of these little books.

There are six in total - three with a private collector, two with the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich and another numbered on the cover 6 and dated 1837 with the Maryport Maritime Museum.

I am very grateful to the staff at the National Maritime Museum Library for allowing me access and for facilitating the photography.

All photographs of the NMM books taken by me 18 August 2022.

For Part 2 see - https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-notebooks-of-kelsick-wood-2.html

For Part 3 see - https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-notebooks-of-kelsick-wood-3.html

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The first which I will cover here is the NMM sketchbook of about 1835/6. Their ref. SPB/45/1

https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/archive/rmgc-object-1193936

From the collection of Richard Hunter a specialist in ships carving and sold directly to the NMM in 2021. Unfortunately Mr Hunter died in May 2022.

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The second notebook at the NMM is dated 1839. NMM Ref. SPB/45/2

https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/archive/rmgc-object-512701

This was acquired prior to 1970 when less attention to keeping records of provenance.

This journal/notebook was acquired separately from their other notebook.

The Maryport Maritime Museum Notebook was bought from Auctioneers Mitchells of Cockermouth, 14 June 2018.

I contacted them and they kindly put the previous owner in touch with me - unfortunately the notebook came from the collection of her father who had died in 1991 - she was unable to supply any further information.

I am very grateful to Sue Fox of the Maryport Maritime Museum for providing me with a copy of their notebook.

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The NMM Kelsick Wood Sketchbook/ notebook No. 1.

NMM ref. SPB/45/1

Size approx. 7" x 5".

A few selected drawings - Indian Ink and watercolour.

There is nothing distinct to date this book, but its format is very close to the two other books that I have so far had access to and been able to examine closely.

It has no annotations or explanatory text.

It is my belief that there are no copyright issues with these exquisite little paintings.

Proposed? Figurehead of the Lord Lowther.

Ship launched 1 Dec 1835 (this needs to be confirmed).

Detail drawing of the stern board from the drawing above.

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I have chosen these images at random - mostly because they give details of proposed? ships carvings.

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