success

Looks like Black Knight from Monty Python & the Holy Grail"!

LOL!!

Looks like the Bush Ranger Kelly gang's armour from colonial Australia. -- Seen on your photo stream. (?)

yeah, jay. i was thinking the same thing. it looks about the same size and weight as the kelly's armor... Does anybody know if this was, in fact one of the kelly gang members' armor? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nedkellysarmour1882.jpg

I'm an Australian, and that does indeed look like a set of Kelly gang armour.. Here's an interesting article about the ship SUCCESS and the armour: glenrowan1880.com/success.htm It suggets that a replica copy of the armour was displayed on the ship, although it was purported to the viewing public to be genuine. Notably, some the LOC Bain collection photographs appear at that internet link.. The photographs appear oto have made their way there independent of the LOC. More on the ship SUCCESS here too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_(prison_ship)

The Success was a floating museum which "the horrors of penal transportation in Great Britain and the United States of America between the 1890s and the 1930s." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_(prison_ship)

That bath doesn't look very inviting.

By the way, anyone wanting to know about this extraordinary vessel can read all about it on my website and blog. Rich Norgard www.shipsuccess.com www.shipsuccess.blogspot.com

Sadist no doubt !

www.bruzelius.info/nautica/Ships/Merchant/Sail/S/Success(... has a detailed timeline for the Success. It says that Capt. Smith sailed her from Liverpool to Boston in 1912. She had already been a floating museum since 1891. The description of content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=... , a 1915 photo taken in Seattle, suggests that Smith owned the ship. home.gci.net/~alaskapi/success/ has a more detailed timeline and confirms that Smith was an owner and was from Indiana.

Agh! Eyes on the sea, daddy-o! You'll crash us right into a reef if you don't watch where you're going!

A few corrections to the above. The man pictured here wearing a British naval uniform was Dave Smith. He was an American salesman and, needless to say, did not take the ship across the Atlantic, but went by steamer. The real skipper was a Canadian. Such is the power of the press. My website, noted above as "home.gci.net/~alaskapi/success/" is now at www.shipsuccess.com where you will find the true history of this extraordinary vessel. Rich Norgard www.shipsuccess.com www.shipsuccess.blogspot.com