ROYAL CHARLOTTE HMY 1750

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ROYAL CHARLOTTE HMY 1750

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:05 pm

The royal yacht depicts on this stamp is designed after a painting made by John Cleveley the Elder (1712-1777) which shows us the royal yacht ROYAL CAROLINE built-in 1750. The painting I now in the National Maritime Museum, London.

Built as a full ship rigged royal wooden hulled yacht at the Deptford Dock-yard by Master Shipwright John Hollond after a design made by Sir Joseph Allen.
22 August 1749 ordered.
29 January 1750 launched as HMY ROYAL CAROLINE.
Tonnage 232 ton (bm), dim, length of gun-deck 27.46, beam 7.49, depth 3.4m, length of keel 22.0m.
Armament when built: 8 – 4pdrs and 8 - ½pdr, swivels.
Crew 70.
Commissioned under Capt. Sir Charles Molloy.

HMY ROYAL CAROLINE was a ship-rigged royal yacht. She was ordered in 1749 to replace HMY CAROLINA as Britain's principal royal yacht. She was built at Deptford Dockyard under the supervision of Master Shipwright John Hollond to a design by Surveyor of the Navy Joseph Allin. She was launched on 29 January 1750 and was broken up 70 years later, in 1820

Service
ROYAL CAROLINE" was a royal yacht built for the use of George II and his wife, Queen Caroline. She was sailed for pleasure cruises by the royal family, and as a transport for members of court traveling between England and Holland. On the latter assignments, she was usually escorted by as many as four frigates and, when the King was aboard, accompanied by the First Lord of the Admiralty. Her distinguished captains included Sir William Cornwallis and Sir Hyde Parker, both of whom rose to flag rank. In 1761, the vessel was renamed ROYAL CHARLOTTE for George III's prospective bride and Queen, Princess Sophie Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Little used by the royal family after 1806, she was broken up in 1821.
ROYAL CAROLINE was first commissioned under Captain Sir Charles Molloy, who commanded her until 1753. Captain Sir Piercy Brett took over in 1754, and in August 1761 she became the flagship of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Anson, with Captain Peter Denis as his flag-captain. Anson had orders to convey Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from Cuxhaven, Kiel to marry George III. Accompanying the yacht, renamed HMY ROYAL CHARLOTTE in honour of the occasion, was a squadron of warships and four other royal yachts, HMY MARY, KATHERINE, AUGUSTA and FUBBS , During the return voyage the squadron was three times blown over to the Norwegian coast by westerly gales and took ten days to reach Harwich, which it did on 6 September 1761.
ROYAL CHARLOTTE was commissioned under Peter Denis in December 1763 and remained under his command until 1770. Denis was succeeded by Captain John Campbell that year, and Campbell remained in command until his promotion to rear-admiral in 1777. ROYAL CHARLOTTE was recommissioned under Captain William Cornwallis in March 1783, and he was succeeded in turn by Captain Sir Hyde Parker in 1788. The yacht was briefly recommissioned in December 1792 but was paid off the following year.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
She continued to be used for official occasions during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with King George III making frequent trips in his yachts to welcome returning fleets and to conduct fleet reviews. The King embarked on ROYAL CHARLOTTE in 1797 to visit the fleet at the Nore after the Battle of Camperdown, in order to honour Admiral Adam Duncan. Contrary winds however prevented the ship from reaching the mouth of the Thames, and instead, the King was blown back upriver to Greenwich. ROYAL CHARLOTTE recommissioned again in May 1801 under Captain Sir Harry Neale, though by February 1804 Captain George Grey was in command. Grey was succeeded later in 1804 by Captain George Henry Towry, and he in turn in 1805 by Captain Edward Foote. By this time ROYAL CHARLOTTE had been succeeded as the principal royal yacht by the introduction of the slightly larger HMY ROYAL SOVEREIGN in 1804 Captain Foote commanded the yacht until 1812, when Captain Thomas Eyles took over command, and in June 1814 Captain George Scott became her commander. ROYAL CHARLOTTE continued in service until July 1820, when she was finally broken up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMY_Royal_Caroline_(1750) Ships of the World by L. Paine.
Nevis 1981 55c sg72, scott 135.
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ROYAL CAROLINE  after a painting of John_Cleveley_the_Elder'.jpg
1981_ROYAL CAROLINE (2).jpg

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