Images of Industry
ELLEN JAMES
ROBERTO, Luigi (1845 - 1910)
Date: circa 1904
Media: gouache on paper
Size: 432 x 634 mm
Acquired: 2009; Purchase
Accession Number: 2009.88/2
The wooden three-masted topsail schooner ELLEN JAMES was built by D. Williams at Portmadoc in 1904. Owned by J. Jones & Co. and skippered by Captain J. Jones himself, she was registered in Caernarfon at 165 tons gross (137 net) and measured 101 feet in length with a 23 foot beam. She spent her career in the salt fish trade having replaced her predecessor of the same name which had been wrecked in December 1902.