Clifford W. Ashley

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Clifford Warren Ashley (born December 18, 1881 in New Bedford , Massachusetts , † September 18, 1947 in Westport , Massachusetts) was an American sailor , painter and writer of non-fiction books .

Life

Reprint (1979) of the Ashley Book of Knots .

After training as a visual artist , Clifford W. Ashley wrote a study The Yankee Whaler on whaling in New England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries . The study resulted from an order from Harper's Monthly Magazine , published in 1906, for which Ashley herself went to sea on a whaler. In 1932 he married Sarah Scudder Clarke. Famous Clifford W. Ashley was about his paintings and drawings from the maritime life also and above all for his today as standard work designated book The Ashley Book of Knots (1944, dt. The The Ashley Book of Knots ), for which he for eleven Has collected, sketched and commented on over 3800 knots , mainly from seafaring . Ashley died two years after suffering a stroke in 1947.

Some of his works are on display today at the New Bedford Whaling Museum and the city's public library. Mount Ashley , a mountain on the island of South Georgia, is named in his honor .

Works

  • The Yankee Whaler . Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1926.
  • Whaleships of New Bedford . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1929
  • The Ashley Book of Knots . Doubleday, New York 1944 (first edition).
    • German edition: The Ashley book of knots. Over 3800 knots. How they look like. What they are used for. How they are made. Special edition. Hamburg: Edition Maritim, 2005, ISBN 3-89225-527-X
  • Elton Wayland Hall (Ed.): Sperm Whaling from New Bedford: Clifford W. Ashley's Photographs of Bark Sunbeam in 1904 . Old Dartmouth Historical Society, New Bedford [1982].

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SURNAME Ashley, Clifford W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ashley, Clifford Warren (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sailor, painter, and non-fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH New Bedford , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1947
Place of death Westport , Massachusetts