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CADMUS

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Dec 28, 2014 8:13 pm

In 1977 Togo issued a set of four stamps and a miniature sheet to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Lafayette’s arrival in America.
The 60Fr stamp shows us the arrival of Lafayette on board the American vessel CADMUS in New York on 15 August 1824.
1818 Built as a wooden hulled packet ship by Sidney Wright, New York for the Havre Union Line (William Whitlock Jr.), New York.
Launched as the CADMUS.
Tonnage 306 ton, dim. 97.6 x 26.6 x 13.4 ft. (depth of hold).
Brig rigged.
She was the first ship of this line used in the packet service between New York and Europe from 1823.
When the American Congress invited Lafayette to revisit the US the CADMUS was put to his disposal to make the voyage from France to the USA.
14 June 1824 she arrived at Le Havre where Lafayette and his family boarded, sailed 13 July and arrived 15 August 1824 in New York. At that time she was under command of Captain Francis Allyn.
The book “Queens of the Western Ocean” has the following:
Lafayette had expressed, early in 1824, a desire to revisit America. On learning this the (US) government offered to send a frigate for him, but he refused, saying that he preferred to come as a private citizen. Moved by an impulse that seems to have been decidedly at variance with a lifelong practice, Whitlock directed Captain Allyn to send his freight and passengers by another ship and place the CADMUS at the disposal of the General.
When the CADMUS arrived in New York the morning of August 15th with Lafayette and his suite, she was greeted by the greatest demonstration the city had ever held. Down the harbour, as far as the eye could see, the waters were covered with crafts of every description, freighted with cheering thousands. Ships were dressed; bells clanged; fog horns blared; and canon boomed. Even the brand-new ferryboat THISTLE was on hand, with her skipper. A youth named Vanderbilt, peering curiously out of the pilothouse. Six of the largest steamboats of the port, crowded to capacity, went down to meet the ship and escort the General to the Battery, where other thousands waited to see him step ashore after an absence of more as 30 years.
The new frigate BRANDYWINE sailed from Norfolk on 09 September 1825 with on board Lafayette after his visit of more as 1 year to the US.
As given by Watercraft Philately that she was bought by Atkins Adams, Fairhaven, Mass. Is not true, that was another whaler with the same name lost on 03 August 1842 what is now known as Cadmus Island in the Pacific.
http://nmdl.org/aowv/whvoyage.cfm?VesselNumber=1019
She was indeed sold and refitted in 1827 as a whaler but she was whaling out from Sag Harbor, NY.
Her whaling voyages you can find on: http://nmdl.org/aowv/whvoyage.cfm?VesselNumber=1021
1849 She sailed for California and never returned. Fate unknown.

Togo 1977 60Fr sg1242, scottC329 and miniature sheet sgMS1244, scott C330A
Source: Watercraft Philately and internet.
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