A sudden gust puts Astra's lee deck under

Favell was the last big sailing ship built in Bristol.  This water colour shows her running the dangerous passage inside the Runnelstone reef on a blustery day.

I do not specialise in French barques aground, but this one, the Vincennes, obviously became quite a tourist attraction when she went aground on Manley beach in Australia.  She was re-floated and repaired.  I love the figures in their formal clothes enjoying  the spectacle, so painted this watercolour of the scene.

A painted ship upon a painted ocean.   This calm evening in the Ionian provided a nice setting with the islands of Ithaca and Cephalonia in the background.

The French built many splendid barques.  This watercolour shows the Babin - Chevay making her way down the Bristol Channel on a cloudy day with the coaster Two Sisters passing ahead and fishing boats on the horizon.

I greatly admire the marine paintings by Antoine Roux, father and son.  This watercolour of  a sloop taking in sail is based on one of their drawings, transposed from Marseilles to Plymouth Sound.  It is not completely unlikely, as ships were sometimes captured and changed sides during the Napoleonic wars.

This French barque, Idun, ran aground on the Suffolk coast  in January 1912.  I have tried to capture the watery sky that follows a stormy night.  The sail in the background might be the lifeboat, Alfred Corry.