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GREATAFIELD ?? or something ?? H E L P !! . . .

beachcomber australia Ack - you did better than I could! All I could make out was a 'T', 'L' and 'D'. I think you've got the last five letters right -'field'. The flag looks like J&J Denholm.

grace!

Scotsfield?

I've just stumbled upon a Spurling image of NEOTSFIELD which looks very like this photo. NEOTSFIELD (1889 - 1917), 1,894 registered tons, length 269ft 6in, beam 40ft 1in, depth 22ft 7in. Constructed of iron, built by A. McMillan, Dumbarton, for F.H. Dangar's Sydney firm of Dangar, Gedye & Co. She was intended for the wool trade and initially sailed in this trade from Sydney. In 1902, she was sold to R.Thomas & Co. and put in the nitrate trade from from the West Coast of Latin America to Europe. She could not equal the passages of the crack German nitrate clippers. In 1907/08 she took 122 days from Taltal, Chile, to Hamburg, and in 1910 she took 141 days from Tortugas Island, Mexico, to the Lizard.. In 1916, she went from New York to Melbourne in 130 days.She was sold again in early 1917. In June 1917, she was stopped by a German submarine 112 miles south-west of Bishop's Rock, Scilly Islands - the crew were given time to leave the ship in their boats and she was sunk by explosive charges. .

What a picture, so powerfull, so gracefull, so British! Look what Britain could once do everyone! However, marvelous memories of greatness are just that, memories, and memories don't feed the baby. Does anyone out there think that there is any chance at all of Britain halting the slide downwards and getting to put the word 'great' back into the name?

when ships looked like ships!mrdot.

Your wonderful capture was seen in Black & White Photos
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Wonderful Picture It seems that the models of ships were kind of similar in common This Mauritania looks like the Titanic in general

Referring to FrigateRN's original comment ... who knows? I was a little kid in Jarrow in the 60s and the sense of pride that we were still (just about) building the world's biggest ships (supertankers by then) was everywhere. But now? Everything's got a price and the work goes where the price is lowest. You have to remember that the industrial revolution was driven yes by ingenuity and determination and genius, but also by the fact that Britain had a huge empire to service and massive revenues from it. We were once the only nation in the world that even could build ships this size. Now they can be built anywhere and it tends to be where the labour's cheapest. I'd love to see Britain be able to call itself Great again but I don't think it'll be through engineering. Sadly we are just not an economic powerhouse any more, we're a small to middling economy.

How can this photo have been "taken March 6, 2013"? Perhaps an image was scrapped on that date. The USS Pennsylvania was scrapped by sinking in 1948.

USS Pennsylvania visited Australia in 1925

date Means it was uploaded on March 6 2013

A few extracts from the Wiki record of the Pennsylvania she was a very distinguished ship when she was decommissioned! She was laid down on 27 October 1913, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia.[1] She was launched on 16 March 1915, sponsored by Elizabeth Kolb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and commissioned on 12 June 1916, with Captain Henry B. Wilson in command. She departed with the Fleet from San Francisco on 15 April 1925, and after war games in the Hawaiian area, departed Honolulu, Hawaii on 1 July, en route to Melbourne, Australia. After a visit to Wellington, New Zealand, she returned to San Pedro on 26 September.

Andy Waugh Swordscookie thanks for the info Andy Waugh and swordscookie, our records have been updated. :)