Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/08/16

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Postcars from Home
From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 03:01:43 +0200
References: <9BF01409-158F-4274-9351-8590A03206F8@mac.com>

Great B&W tones Barney, I like it very much
Cheers
Lluis

El 17/08/2015, a les 2.43, Barney Quinn <bjq1 at mac.com> va escriure:

> 
> This is the William B. Tennison. Today she lives at the Cavert Marine 
> Museum in Solomon's Island, Maryland. She was built in 1899 and started 
> her life as a Bugeye, which is a large sailboat used to dredge for Oysters 
> in the Chesapeake Bay. In 1909 she was converted to power and started her 
> life as a buy boat.
> 
> The idea behind a buy boat is simple. Sailboats were used to dredge for 
> Oysters. Sailboats are wonderful, but they are slow. The buy boats would 
> go out to the dredgers and buy their Oysters from them, allowing them to 
> keep on dredging and saving them a trip back to land. Later she was moved 
> to Virginia where she was used as a buy boat, an Oyster Dredge, and ( of 
> all things ) to haul vegetables. She is named after William B Tennison. 
> People have tried to find out, but no one has any idea who he was.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/W_B_Tennison_1.jpg.html
> 
> Comments and Criticisms Welcome.
> 
> Barney
> 
> 
> 
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