Bronze Age Gold from Wales

TERRA NOVA, loading patent fuel, photograph

Freke, Alfred (Mr) (Photographer)

View of the S.Y. TERRA NOVA loading Crown patent fuel blocks, Cardiff, 11th June 1910. Mounted, framed and glazed.

S.Y. TERRA NOVA. Auxiliary barque of 764 tons, was built by Messrs Alexander Stephens and Sons, Dundee in 1884 for the whaling trade. Although nearly thirty years old at the time of Captain Scott's expedition, she was chosen for it because of her suitability for work in the Antarctic ice. Her beams were fourteen ins thick, her bows were nine feet of solid wood, and her stem was sheathed with iron plating.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

89.40I

Historical Associations

Associated Person/Body: Scott, Robert Falcon (Capt)
Association Type: Place name
Date: 1910
Place: Cardiff Docks
Associated Person/Body: Crown Preserved Coal Company Ltd.
Association Type: Company name
Date: 1910
Place: Cardiff

Creation/Production

Role: Photographer
Place: Cardiff
Period: 1910

Acquisition

collected officially, 6/1989

Measurements

frame (mm): 685
frame (mm): 615

Techniques

Black and white (monochrome photograph)
Photograph

Material

Paper
Wood
Glass
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