sailingship

This was one of several sidings in Ireland that used horse power.

Streetview 25" map The railway dates from 1864, no help.

Streetview - goo.gl/maps/mhwa6DRPKPv [snap @ Niall McAuley ]

There is a stereo pair, seconds earlier or later (see the sail on the boat) - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000559987

Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2016 via Paul Millar

This is most likely the Indra, a German cargo ship, which arrived seeking shelter in the neutral port New York on November 8, 1914, after a stranger-than-fiction voyage of 13,000 miles in 160 days. She left Taltal, Chile with a cargo of nitrate of soda bound for Dunkirk. En route, her captain discovered war had broken out and escaped some trickery off the coast of Ireland intended to coerce her to proceed toward Dunkirk and be seized by the British. Instead, she raced to New York, where she tied up at Stapleton, Staten Island. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40713FC3C5C13... Indra remained at Stapleton until July 6, 1916 when she was towed to Erie Basin, at the foot of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, and her cargo, which had multiplied in value due to the war, was unloaded and sold. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40710FA3C5F1373... The placement of this photo near several others of interned German ships is one clue. If it is the Indra, the photo's date indicates that it would be at the Stapleton docks, though the sign for J&F Kelly is for a dock construction contractor near the Gowanus Canal. Photos of the Indra at other times in her career (she was seized in 1917 and renamed by the First Lady as the Tonawonda, one of many Indian names she gave to seized ships) also suggest this is the same ship. repositories.tdl.org/ttu-ir/handle/2346/47406 repositories.tdl.org/ttu-ir/bitstream/handle/2346/47406/t... www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=19888#v www.clydeships.co.uk/files/201308230919430.Indria%20ex%20... www.clydeships.co.uk/files/201303191927110.Tonawanda%20ex... The bark Matador was the only other interned German sailing ship in New York (docked at Hoboken, N.J), according to this April, 1916 account. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0B17FA3D5F1373... There is illegible writing on the side of the ship in this photo, but it doesn't seem to say Indra. Tonawonda ended her days after a voyage from Seattle to Australia in 1927, another colorful trip: www.angelfire.com/or/petermarsh/Tonawanda.htm

The sun., February 02, 1917, Page 3, upper left chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1917-02-02/ed-... has a list which describes Indra as a "steel ship" and Matador as an "oak bark." The largest sail on the aft mast should be square for a ship and fore-and-aft for a bark. I think I see a boom on the aft mast, which might argue that this is the Matador, if the choice is between the two.

Art Siegel Artolog, Thanks for flagging this image as one of your top favorites in the LOC photostream. You wrote, "This one has the enigmatic caption "Sailing Ship, New York." It hasn't been positively identified as the Indra, which sailed from South American to the coast of Ireland to New York, caught in the winds of war and intrigue with its valuable cargo. [But] trying to track down the identification brought to light Indra's exciting story, worthy of a Patrick O'Brian novel, as well as the story of the many German ships and their crews who were interned for years in New York area harbors for years before America entered the war and seized them." We appreciate your many, many regular contributions to identifying the photographs in the Bain News Service collection and enriching their stories. Your selection now appears in the new set, [http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157640980107725/] Happy Valentine's Day! -- Helena, on behalf of LOC

I spy with my little eye - something beginning with "S" !! Or is it something beginning with "W" ??

Thinking it might be the SUNBEAM or HMS WATERWITCH but the more I look the less sure. I can't see the stays on the side of the hull which were prominent on both - see discussion and links - - but funnel looks too short ST GEORGE en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Waterwitch_(1892) Hi-res image of HMS WATERWITCH - handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/28269 Ted might know!

SV DRUMALIS - built 1890, wrecked off Nova Scotia in 1901 - full details - www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/1811... www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?33465 Hi-res image showing many of the same stains on her hull as above, and possibly the same warship in Farm Cove, left of frame - handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/12213 1892 - first visit to Sydney - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13871651 1896 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/14056426 1897 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/14124772 2/6/1897 - "The four-masted barque Drumalis is at anchor in Neutral Bay, loading Bulli coal for San Francisco." trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/108056229

beachcomber australia Well spotted re the SUNBEAM / WATERWITCH - Brassey was back in Australia with his yacht in the late 1890s so the date would line up. I don't think we were able to establish when WATERWITCH was painted this colour but our resident expert Ted may know!