Refrigerated cargo ship Port Fairy (ab.) 1930

 Refrigerated cargo ship Port Fairy and a small sailing boat photographed by the Australian photographer Allan C. Green. The original image - here shown digitally hand colorizide by me - is in the Victoria State Library archive. The library does not give a date, but I think Green´s shot is from ab.1930. The 145.5 m ship had accomodation for 12 passengers.

"MV Port Fairy was a UK merchant vessel built in 1928 by Swan Hunter for the Commonwealth & Dominion Line Ltd (or "Port Line") shipping company and sold in 1965 to Embajada Compania Naviera SA of Piraeus. Named after the coastal town of Port Fairy in Australia, she was renamed Taishikan for her final commercial voyage to Hong Kong where she was scrapped."- -

"In 1930 her refrigeration equipment was modified and she carried the first cargo of chilled meat (instead of frozen meat) from Australia; she later worked the same cargo from New Zealand." --

"Port Fairy had an eventful war employed as an ammunition ship.Sailing in fast convoy OL8 from Liverpool to Canada on 22 October 1940, Port Fairy collided with the Canadian destroyer Margaree in rough seas about 300 miles (483 km) west of Ireland (position 53°24′N 22°50′W.). Margaree sank quickly; her captain, four officers and 136 crew were lost. Port Fairy rescued 34 of the survivors.On 9 July 1943 the small Convoy Faith, comprising Port Fairy, the troopships Duchess of York and California, with escorts Iroquois, Douglas and Moyola, sailed Greenock for Freetown, Sierra Leone. Two days later, when the convoy was about 300 miles west of Vigo, it was attacked by 3 Focke-Wulf Fw 200 aircraft of Kampfgeschwader 40 based at Merignac, near Bordeaux. The precision high-altitude bombing left both Duchess of York and California blazing. Port Fairy picked up 64 RAF survivors from Duchess of York. Both Duchess of York and California were abandoned, and in the early hours of 12 July they were sunk by torpedoes from their escorts as it was feared the flames from the ships would attract U-boats." (Wikipedia)

Motor yacht Ingmar (1928)

 This is Ingmar, a 12 m (l.o.a.) motor yacht designed by C.G. Pettersson. It (Ingmar is a male name!) was built in 1919 at Larssons Motorbåtsvarv, Saltsjöbaden, Sweden for the owner Karl Grönstedt. Bertil Norberg took the picture (ab.) 1926. My restoration and colorization of an image in the Maritime Museum of Sweden archive (Digital Museum).

Coaster Saturn passed by

 The Danish coaster, m/v Saturn passed by this afternoon on its way to Bergen (Norway). The 53,6 m Saturn, with a carrying capacity of 772 t. DWT, was built in the Netherlands already in 1966. It is kept in outstanding shape by a dedicated crew.

The yacht Tatjana (1905)

 This is the 96 sq.m. yacht Tatjana photographed by Erik Salander in 1905 or 1906. The 8,50 m (l.w.l) yacht was designed by the Finnish constructor August Westin and built by Åbo Båtvarf in Turku, Finland, in 1905.

My restoration and colorization of the original image in the SCIF.se archive.

Mrs. Cornelia Cecil (née Vanderbilt)

 

Mrs. Cornelia Cecil (née Vanderbilt) photographed by Harris & Ewing in (ab.) 1925. My restoration and colorization of the original image in the Library of Congress archive. 

"Cornelia was born at the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina on August 22, 1900. She was the daughter, and only child, of George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914) and Edith Stuyvesant Dresser (1873–1958). Her father, the youngest child of William Henry Vanderbilt and Maria Louisa (née Kissam) Vanderbilt, built a 250-room mansion, the largest privately owned home in the United States, which he named Biltmore Estate. The estate, designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt, was modeled on the Chateau de Blois among other chateaux of the Loire Valley. She was the great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, and, on her mother’s side, she was a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant." --

"After her father's death in 1914, Cornelia inherited the Biltmore estate. Her mother sold approximately 86,000 acres (350 km²) of the Biltmore property to the United States Forest Service to create the core of Pisgah National Forest. Her mother later married Peter Goelet Gerry (1879–1957), a United States Senator from Rhode Island." --

"On April 29, 1924, Cornelia was married to a British aristocrat who was then the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington, Hon. John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890–1954), the son of Lord William Cecil and Mary Cecil, Baroness Amherst of Hackney. The Cecils were descendants of William Cecil. The nationally-renowned organist from St. Louis Charles Henry Galloway played organ at the wedding. They divorced in 1934," --

"Around 1932, reportedly finding life at Biltmore too dull, she moved to New York City to briefly study art, leaving her husband to manage Biltmore. A few months later, she moved to Paris where she divorced her husband in 1934, dyed her hair bright pink, and changed her name to Nilcha. After her 1934 move abroad, she never returned to Biltmore or the United States again. After Paris, she moved to London, where she met and married Captain Vivian Francis Bulkeley-Johnson (1891–1968) in October 1949. Bulkeley-Johnson, the aide-de-camp to the 9th Duke of Devonshire when he was the Governor General of Canada from 1916 to 1918, served in the offices of the Imperial War Cabinet in World War I and in the Air Ministry. They remained married until his death in 1968.

One evening as she was having dinner with Edward Adamson in London, Cornelia met William Robert "Bill" Goodsir, their waiter with whom she fell in love. In 1972, Cornelia married for the third and final time to Goodsir (1926–1984), who was 26 years younger than she was." --

"Her sons (from the marriage with John Cecil) eventually inherited the Biltmore estate, with George Cecil, the older of the two sons, choosing to inherit the majority of the estate's land and the Biltmore Farms Company, which was more profitable than the house at the time. The younger son, William Cecil was thus left with Biltmore House, and is credited with preserving the chateau which (though still privately owned) is open to the public. Through her elder son, she was the grandmother of six, and through her second son, she was the grandmother of two more

Cornelia died on February 7, 1976, aged 75, in Oxford, England. Her ashes are buried at St. Peter's Kirkyard, Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland."  (Wikipedia)

The Swedish yacht Stormen (1919)

 The Koster style boat Stormen (Storm) photographed by A. Clason in 1919 on the western coast of Sweden. My colorization of the original image in the SCIF.se archive.  She had just been a winner in a local regatta.

Portrait of a Samoan girl

 Portrait of a Samoan girl (1890 - 1910). My restoration and colorization of the original image by Thomas Andrew in the Museum of New Zealand archive. The girl is wearing an elaborate traditional Lavalava (also known as an 'ie, short for 'ie lavalava, an article of daily clothing traditionally worn by Polynesians and other Oceanic peoples) made of Polynesian barkcloth.