
The Launch of a West Indies Trader
I have long admired this painting by the famed marine artist Robert Salmon. It shows the sailing ship Christian being launched from the Greenock shipyard of John Scott on 2 October 1818. At this time shipbuilding on the Clyde was relatively small in scale, with only a few yards producing small numbers of wooden sailing ships. Steamships were a new invention and the small steamboat … Continue reading The Launch of a West Indies Trader