This fierce looking figurehead is believed to be from the barque Saladin wrecked on the coast of Nova Scotia after she was taken over by pirates in a mutiny. The figurehead featured in the mutiny as the pirates attempted to alter it to conceal the identity of their captured vessel.
Captured this striking figure in 2015 while visiting the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Saladin set sail from Valparaiso - a seaport in Chile, on 8 February 1844, carrying a shipment of guano, 70 tons of copper, 13 bars of silver, and about $9000 of gold and silver coins. Saladin never made it to England, where its shipment was expected, instead it was found stranded on 21 May 1844 near Country Harbour, Nova Scotia on the shores of Harbour Island beside the village of Seal Harbour.
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