FRANK JOSEPH HENRY GARDINER (BRITISH, BORN 1942) HERZOGIN CECILIE, FOUR MAST WINDJAMMER.

Watercolour, signed and dated 08 lower right, housed within a gilt and glazed frame 83cm by 64cm including the frame, 55cm by 36cm image size, Note - Herzogin Cecilie was a German-built four-mast barque (windjammer), named after German Crown Princess Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886–1954), spouse of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1882–1951) (Herzogin being German for Duchess). She sailed under German, French and Finnish flags. Unlike other contemporary German merchant sailing ships, the black Flying-P-Liners or the green ships of Rickmers, she was painted in white. She was one of the fastest windjammers ever built, logging 21 knots at Skagen.

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