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| Keywords: Lady Blackwood.jpg en Painting of the barque Lady Blackwood by English artist George Gregory dated 1892 The work commemorates a voyage made in 1829 The ship's master at that time was Capt John Dibbs The Lady Blackwood was built in Calcutta in 1821 for the Australian colonial traders Campbell and Co and is most likely named after the wife of Sir Henry Blackwood who was Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies 1819-1822 The Lady Blackwood had several subsequent masters and was eventually sold to a San Francisco buyer in March 1847 It was wrecked off the coast of British Columbia about 1872 The ship ™s bell is in a Church in Comox BC 2013-10-11 Photo of painting reproduced with permission of Dibbs family Sydney NSW Painted by George Gregory 1849-1938 in 1892 when Sir George Dibbs was visiting London PD-old PD-Art PD-old-auto Uploaded with UploadWizard Paintings of ships | ||||
