The schooner Essex Lass
Essex Lass
The schooner Essex Lass was completed in May 1842 by Henry Fellows & Co. at Southtown, Yarmouth for Robert Turpin of Mistley and registered at Harwich. In September the following year the owner moved to Wivenhoe and the ship was reregistered at Colchester. She operated in the fruit trades to Spain and the Mediterranean until she was lost on 13 January 1851.
In this 1844 pierhead painting she is shown entering (and leaving) the port of Malta. Ship portraits often showed two views of the vessel from different angles or with a different set of sails.
