This was meant to be about another topic, but I will just ‘go with the flow’ and (mainly) discuss pictures of the Loch Vennachar.
I recently bought this colour print of the ship from Sea Witch Images in Port Adelaide: -
I was taken in by the colour of the picture.
One thing to watch out for when browsing online, etc.. is that “Loch Vennachar” may be spelled in several different ways.
It was suggested that my print had come from “Sail: The romance of the clipper ships, Volume 2” by Basil Lubbock and Jack Spurling, although the print itself shows “South Australian Maritime Museum SWI 2408”.
I found a digitised version of Vol.1 of “Sail: The romance of the clipper ships” at https://archive.org/details/romanceofclipper0000basi/page/n5/mode/2up . Volume 1 was by Basil Lubbock and Frank Mason.
At https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/109317 , I found “The romance of the clipper ships; an abridged edition of "Sail", volumes I, II and III. Pictured by the late J. Spurling, storied by Basil Lubbock, edited by Alexander Campbell”.
These are also listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Spurling thus;
Sail: The Romance of the Clipper Ships Vol. I (1923)
Sail: The Romance of the Clipper Ships Vol. II (1929)
Sail: The Romance of the Clipper Ships Vol. III (1933)
I know that I am getting way of track, but I will press on. According to https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/sail-romance-clipper-ships-volume-486952349, “Sail The Romance of the Clipper Ships Volume Two Pictured by J. Spurling Storied by Basil Lubbock Edited by F. A. Hook, F.R.G.S.”
All that is just a bit of background information. I couldn’t actually find a copy of my print I got lucky though when going through “The Shipwreck Sites of Kangaroo Island” by Robert McKinnon. I found a copy of my print on page 31. According to the caption, the painting of the Loch Vennachar was done by AV Gregory and is in the Art Gallery of South Australia (as Arthur V. Gregory).
AV Gregory is the Australian artist Arthur Victor Gregory (1867-1957).
I found this photo of a different framed coloured print of the Loch Vennachar by AV Gregory online at https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B%2017480: -
It is from the collection of the Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village. It comes from a photograph in the State Library of South Australia (The 'Loch Vennachar' [B 17480], taken by photographer John Allcot.
It can also be found at Victorian Collections (the collection of Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village).
There are many different black & white photos of the Loch Vennachar to be found online, including this one: -
(Various sources - see below)
It appears in "Kangaroo Island Shipwrecks" by the late Gifford Chapman. Said to be from the Mortlock Library, the caption reads "The Loch Vennachar drying her sails in Melbourne".
It also appears in “The Shipwreck Sites of Kangaroo Island” by Robert McKinnon where the caption reads "Historic photograph of the Loch Vennachar (State Library)".
(Now that I have got this topic out of the way, I can make a start on my original plan.)
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