Lapada Object of the Week – SS Lochee Ships Wheel
We were delighted to have our ships wheel featured as Lapada’s object of the week this week. Circa 1851, the year Herman Melville published Moby-Dick, this early Victorian teak and brass bound ships wheel was from the S.S. Lochee, the last sail-powered whaling ship to be built in a Dundee shipyard; the same shipyard which built the HMS Discovery. The wheel is …
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