Afternoon Thoughts
Jun. 21st, 2022 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bartstationbardTaking a break from researching movie ships. I have a photo from the 1935 Mutiny on the BOUNTY set that includes PACIFIC QUEEN, now restored and returned to her original name of BALCLUTHA. I wish I had known about this when I sailed with LADY WASHINGTON after her stint as a movie ship—HMS INTERCEPTOR in Pirates of the Caribbean. We spent a day in Cat Harbor and I swear I saw the place. She’s the only boat left of all the vessels in the photo. Back then I was writing Hornblower slash and spending every minute I could volunteering in sailing ships.
There’s the LILY, a schooner that was rebuilt to play the BOUNTY, the schooner NANUK, also hiding inside the fake shell of PANDORA. Perhaps the boat next to PACIFIC QUEEN was STAR OF LAPLAND, port-painted and chartered briefly as an extra before sailing to Osaka to be scrapped. There’s a barge wearing the fake 18th century stern of PANDORA which would later sink, killing a cameraman in the process. There’s one more whose real name I have yet to discover.
The movies are not kind to ships. My first week aboard the Lady was spent patching sails and scraping beeswax and soot off pinrails and pins. The next three weeks were spent taking her home to Washington state. A stop in Sausalito and we got to watch ILM blow up the model HMS INTERCEPTOR in a tank. A piece of the pinrail sits on my desk.
Weird how fiction and reality can collide.
There’s the LILY, a schooner that was rebuilt to play the BOUNTY, the schooner NANUK, also hiding inside the fake shell of PANDORA. Perhaps the boat next to PACIFIC QUEEN was STAR OF LAPLAND, port-painted and chartered briefly as an extra before sailing to Osaka to be scrapped. There’s a barge wearing the fake 18th century stern of PANDORA which would later sink, killing a cameraman in the process. There’s one more whose real name I have yet to discover.
The movies are not kind to ships. My first week aboard the Lady was spent patching sails and scraping beeswax and soot off pinrails and pins. The next three weeks were spent taking her home to Washington state. A stop in Sausalito and we got to watch ILM blow up the model HMS INTERCEPTOR in a tank. A piece of the pinrail sits on my desk.
Weird how fiction and reality can collide.
