SEA ALARM at WIMM, painting
Person/Corff (Hanesyddol): Hildred, Falcon David (By Roger Cucksey, Keeper of Art, Newport Museum & Art Gallery, 1990.
Falcon Hildred was born in Grimsby in 1935. At that time Grimsby was reputed to have one of the largest steam fishing fleets in the world.
Affected by his early experiences he has been fascinated by the shapes, sounds and smells of working towns throughout his life. The cranes, mills, terrace houses, factory sirens, lines of washing, and the dialects - all gave a liveliness, integrity and individuality that is now largely gone.
A wartime move to Coventry extended his interest, and it was here at the age of thirteen that he began his art training. After completing this at the Royal College of Art in London, he worked as an interior designer and then took up a research post at Newcastle-on-Tyne Polytechnic. In I976 this led to his Worktown exhibition which toured Britain being shown at many museums and art galleries including lronbridge Museum, the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Welsh Industrial Maritime Museum.
He lives and works in an old mill overlooking the slate quarrying town of Blaenau Ffestiniog from where he continues to travel throughout Britain in search of subjects to add to his Worktown exhibition.
Although an industrial designer by profession he feels he is now more of an industrial archaeologist with a better knowledge of trains and corner shops, than of trends and computers. He has works in the collections of the National Library of Wales, CADW Welsh Historic Monuments, the Telford Collection at lronbridge, the Royal Commission for Historic Monuments, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Trust.)
Mae'r Sea Alarm yn nodweddiadol o'r nifer o dynfadau stêm a weithiai ym mhorthladdoedd De Cymru ac a deithiai yn ôl ac ymlaen ar Fôr Hafren. Yn wir, mae'r tynfadau a ddefnyddir heddiw yn ddigon tebyg yn eu hanfod, ar wahân i'r ffaith taw diesel yn hytrach na stêm sy'n eu gyrru. Mae ei simnai gul, uchel yn awgrymu ei fod yn hen fad, ond nid yw hynny'n wir oherwydd yn 1941 y cafodd ei adeiladu. Fe'i wnaed gan John Crown a'i Feibion o Sunderland ar gyfer y Weinyddiaeth Ryfel ac fe'i fedyddiwyd yn Empire Ash. Yn 1946 fe'i brynwyd gan y Clyde Shipping Company ac arhosodd ar afon Clyde dan enw newydd — y Flying Fulmar. Prynwyd y tynfad ddeng mlynedd yn ddiweddarach gan C.J. King o Fryste a'r adeg honno y cafodd ei alw'n Sea Alarm. Arhosodd ym Môr- Hafren gan gario glo yn Y Barri nes i'r Amgueddfa ei brynu pan ddaeth ei ddyddiau gwaith i ben yn 1973.
Injan stêm dri-thrawiad sydd i'r tynfad. O'i chymharu â maint y tynfad ei hun mae'n ymddangos yn injan fawr, ond rhaid cofio bod gofyn i'r tynfad symud llongau oedd yn pwyso i fyny at 10,000 o dunelli gros, er nad yw'n pwyso ond rhyw 260 o dunelli gros ei hun. Erbyn hyn mae'r math hwn o injan, sy'n nodweddiadol o'r rhai a yrrai'r rhan fwyaf o longau'r byd am yn agos i hanner canrif, wedi diflannu'n gyfan gwbl.
Ffynhonell: Arweinlyfr Amgueddfa Diwydiant a Môr Cymru, 1984
SEA ALARM. Built in 1941. Constructed by John Crown and Sons of Sunderland for the Ministry of War Transport, and christened EMPIRE ASH, she was acquired by the Clyde Shipping Company in 1946 and remained on the Clyde under a new name, the FLYING FULMAR. Ten years later she was bought by C.J. King of Bristol and became the SEA ALARM. She remained in the Bristol Channel, coaling regularly at Barry, until she was acquired by the Museum in 1973 at the end of her working life.
Creu/Cynhyrchu
Hildred, Falcon David
Rôl: Creation
Dyddiad: 1998
Derbyniad
Purchase, 6/8/1998
Mesuriadau
length including frame (mm):519
width including frame (mm):560
Techneg
watercolour on paper
painting and drawing
pen and ink on paper
painting and drawing
