Earp, Henry E. [mariner], his album of photographs of tall ships involved in global trading voyages, including UK, North and South America, Australia, New Zealand etc

1880s-1910, 220 by 280mm (8¾ by 11 inches) or reverse largest print size

Oblong folio photograph album of 60 pages with circa 150 original silver print photographs of mainly ‘tall ships’ that he presumably sailed on, encountered on his voyages or had a close interest in, including twenty full page photographs and the remainder either two or four to a page, final leaf with manuscript index of many of the vessels, leather binding, The first illustrations in the album are of Richard Woodget the first commander of the Cutty Sark and an image of that ship.

Earp was living it Stafford Street Hull in 1929 and in that year wrote a letter to the sailing boat historian, Basil Lubbock [Seaman and author of several histories of sailing ships, including “The China Clippers” (1914), “The Colonial Clippers” (1921) and “The last of the Windjammers” (1927-28)]. c.f. Collection of the National Maritime Museum collection for Earp/Lubbock letter / images also available at https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-836336990/findingaid.

It is likely that the ship Forfarshire was boat Earp sailed mainly as there are a number of photographs of it in the album and it was the name his house in Truro. The Forfarshire sailed under Shaw-Savile flag at the end of the 19th century