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| Keywords: Joseph Heard - The Merchant Brig Rimac In Two Positions.jpg The Merchant brig Rimac in two positions off Cape Horn with another of Brocklebank's brigs in view Rimac identified from her masthead Watson`s Code flags for 268 Rimac was one of a class of twenty-one standard wooden brigs built for Brocklebanks' of Liverpool between 1822 and 1845 Launched from Brocklebank`s own yard at Whitehaven in 1834 she was registered at 215 tons and measured 90 feet in length with a 23 foot beam Ordered specifically for the company`s Peru route she spent much of her life sailing to the many ports on the western coast of South America and rounded the Horn´ no less than fifty-six times a remarkable achievement for any sailing vessel particularly a tiny brig After a long and trouble-free career she was inbound for Dundee with a cargo of guano on 28th February 1862 when she was driven aground near Kilrush in the south-west of Ireland Although successfully refloated she had suffered some hull damage and perhaps for this reason Brocklebanks' sold her to Nuttall Co of Liverpool in 1864 Ten years later on 12th December 1874 by which date she was owned by W Hayes of Blythe she was wrecked near North Somercotes south of Grimsby 1854 oil canvas cm 63 90 5 object history credit line signed 'J Heard' and dated 1854 lower left accession number 1 http //www arcadja com/auctions/en/heard_joseph/artist/12999/ Bonhams via ARCADJA auction results<br/>2 http //www bonhams com/auctions/16837/lot/98/ Bonhams PD-old-auto-1923 1859 Joseph Heard Rimac ship 1834 Images from Bonhams 19th-century sailing ships in paintings 19th-century paintings location missing 1854 oil on canvas paintings | ||||
