This is a rare photograph of a great ship of yesteryear.
She is the Madeleine, a steel four-masted barque pictured during a visit to the Albert Edward Dock, in North Shields, at the beginning of the 20th Century.
She was 321 feet long and owned by a French shipping company and had been built in Nantes in the late 1890s with the help of a French government subsidy.
On June 23, 1911, she dragged her anchors in the harbour of Iquique, in Chile, during a severe northerly storm, and capsized after colliding with the Union, which was also a four-masted steel-hulled barque built in 1882 by Russell and company of Greenock.
If you have any pictures or stories to tell Remember When, email Ray Marshall or write to him at: Remember When, Evening Chronicle, Groat Market, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1ED. You can also phone him on 0191 201 6239.
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