Moody Blues

We’ve all seen plenty of ship paintings, we received this one the other day from the artist, J. Clary. Here’s what he says about his work (a "progress view" btw):

The Thomas W. Lawson, with thirteen letters in her name, was the only seven-masted vessel in
the world. Known as "Lucky Seven," the steel hulled, 404′ schooner was launched at Quincy,
Massachusetts in 1902. She was initially designed to haul coal up and down the Atlantic coast,
and did so until 1907, when the price of coal tumbled. Then refitted to carry bulk liquid, she
was contracted by the Sun Oil Company (Sunoco), to haul two-and-a quarter million gallons of
light oil to England. It was during this maiden voyage across the Atlantic that she encountered
three gales which rendered her sails useless. Having no other means of propulsion, she went
aground, broke up and sank off the Scilly Islands, southwest of Cornwall on Friday the thirteen,
December 1907. Her demise would be marked as the world’s first oil spill. Would you like to own this painting when it’s complete?