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Shore Power The freighter, "Blue Triangle", built in 1920 by the American International Shipbuilding Corp., Hog Island, PA. was one of many "Hog Islanders" built for the US Shipping Board. She was renamed the "Exmouth" in 1928 after being acquired by the Export Steamship Co. in 1925 and served on the America-Italy run for years. During WWII she sailed regularly in convoys across the Atlantic carrying medical supplies to the Allies in Europe. She met her end in 1944 when she struck a British mine off Fife Ness, Scotland. She was recently discovered by salvage divers in November 2008. She is depicted here hauled up on a marine railway in Pensacola Florida in 1922, still carrying her original name ("Blue Triangle") and the homeport, Philadelphia, across her transom. She is getting her bottom cleaned and repainted and a trim job on her prop. Watercolor on Szabo 300LB WC paper. Available, exclusively, at the John Raimondi Gallery, 15 Pleasant St., Rockport, MA. Reference #11391 15" X 22" (image size) Browse Categories • Pencil and Watercolor Studies • Freighters, Tankers,Tugs and Barges • A Press of Sail! • Ships and Marine Railways • Landscapes and Seascapes • Model Ships
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