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Look closely at the center of the photo and you will see the lines of the old scrollwork.

The smaller image and the text below are from a book whose page I photographed; unfortunately I didn't record the name/author of the book.

" The Riversdale was a three-masted steel ship built in 1894 at Port Glasgow, Scotland, by William Hamilton & Company. She measured 275.8 feet in length, 41.9 feet in breadth, and was 24 feet in depth. Tonnage was 2,206 tons gross, 2,057 net.The windjammer was of steel clincher construction with one deck and an elliptic stern. Her Liverpool registry states that she had a "demi-woman" head. The ship's figurehead, a matronly looking woman, currently is on display in the Maritime Museum of British Columbia in Victoria. The Riversdale was of true ship rig; that is, her masts were all rigged with square sails. She was a sister ship to the Barfillan, Hyderabad, and Blackbraes, all built to the same pattern in the same shipyard in 1892.

As "The Tall Ships Pass" relates, "it was the zenith of sail and the outcome of centuries of experiment. Lacking the daintiness, the handiness and the sweet lines of their progenitors, they nevertheless represented, at their prime, sail's epitome of combined strength, seaworthiness, economy and longevity.".