Three Masted Barque Ship In A Bottle 'Red Sails In The Sunset'

Price: NZ$141.03

Code: UNQ 00283

This unique Ship in bottle is simply constructed in the traditional style in a rum bottle. Some of its sails are partly furled. This is a model of a 3 Masted Barque getting under way. The bottle is 12” long and 4” in diameter and does not include a stand. lovely piece set to grace any study, library, office or holiday retreat.

The technique of putting ships into bottles developed during the early years of the 19th century in the forecastles of the old sailing ships; in an era when sea voyages lasted months and years, and entertainment was self-evolved, with whatever materials were at hand. The skill has continued to be popular particularly with sailors or people involved with seafaring. These wonderful bottles are time capsules for someone’s memories, sealed away and protected by the surrounding bottle. Boathouse Collectables only deal in unique bottles which we restore and sell through our electronic shop. We also complete private commissions for new works. If you’re interested please contact us.

A barque is a vessel with at least three masts, all of them fully square rigged except for the stern most one, which is fore-and-aft rigged.
The wooden three-masted barque was the most common type of deep-water cargo-carrier in the middle of the 19th century. However, only one such vessel has survived to our days.

The typical cargo-carrier of the early 20th century was the four-masted steel barque. When four-masted barques started to appear in the 19th century, they were often called full-rigged ships since they had three square rigged masts, and a ship was more highly regarded than a barque. In America, the term shipentine was also used in reference to four-masted barques. This semantic confusion mostly got settled by the end of the 19th century.

Only six five-masted barques were built, the first one being the France, built in 1890.