File:SS Dunedin by Frederick Tudgay.JPG

English:  1875 painting of Dunedin,47cm by 77cm oil on canvas by Frederick Tudgay (1841-1921), originally owned by the Ship's captain, John Whitson. The 1320 ton 73 metre Dunedin was built by Robert Duncan and Co at Port Glasgow in 1874 at a cost of ₤23,750. In 1881, still wearing the painted in the original Albion Line colours of black hull and gold band and pink boot topping in the painting, she was refitted with a Bell Coleman refrigeration machine with which she took the fist frozen load of meat from New Zealand to the United Kingdom. Although experimental voyages with refrigerated shipping had been made the previous year by Australian and American vessels, the Dunedins trip was the first fully successful refrigerated shipment. The Dunedin continued in the frozen meat trade until she was lost without trace in 1890, en route from new Zealand to the UK - it is presumed she hit an iceberg of Cape Horn.

Image source: Hocken Library.

Deletionists and bureaucratic wikipedia nonsense; 1. Not Copyrighted.Note this is painted off the English coast, so presumably UK copyright law applies - alternatively New Zealand - in either event the copyright expires 50 years after the artists death - here 1923 - from past experience, merely not being copyrighted doesn't stop some deletionists if they can't put it in a neat little tick box catergory, so...

2.no licence suits this picture precisely, the one chosen is well, possibly wrong, BUT LICENCES DON'T PROPERLY COVER PLACES OUTSIDE THE US. If you don't like what I've ticked a. you are welcome to find a better one b. just cause it is easier to delete a picture than amend stupid license labels doesn't mean it is the right thing to do. Dear deletionists - there is clearly no IP issue with this image. Tehre is a Wikipedia lack of appropriate box issue - a big problem with non-US images. This is not a reason to delete the image it is a reason to change the rules. Put your own house in order before you start F---ing around with others contributions.

3. There is a fair use rationale - the shipment of frozen meat transformed New Zealand's economy - see associated links and articles. To quote the present owners, Hocken Librarian, Stuart Strachan, says "the oil painting of the cargo ship 'Dunedin', by Frederick Tudgay, is an "iconic work". It represents the first shipment of refrigerated meat from Otago and is the most contemporary painting of its time, as it is the only one painted in the original Albion Line colours of black hull and gold band and pink boot topping, under which it sailed to England with the frozen meat."

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2007 (original upload date)

Original uploader was Winstonwolfe at en.wikipedia

PD-US; PD-ART; PD-ART-LIFE-70; PD-OLD-70.