File talk:Thomas Luny - 'Thornton' In Two Positions Off Dover.jpg

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Thornton

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The Thornton of the picture is ship-rigged (three masts), rather than cutter-rigged (one mast), and looks larger than 31 tons (bm) as in en:Thornton (1793 ship). There was a contemporary ship Thornton of 257 tons (bm), launched at Hull in 1788, that was a West Indiaman and later a whaler in the Davis Strait fishery. By 1810 there were four vessels named Thornton, and one named Thorntons. So, some puzzles. Acad Ronin (talk) 18:51, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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