FOX auxiliary steam yacht 1855

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FOX auxiliary steam yacht 1855

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Jun 25, 2021 8:18 pm

The stamp designer Martin Morck has drawn and engraved for the Post Greenland the eleventh part of the series about significant Greenland expeditions. The Arctic accomplishments of the Dane Carl Petersen in the mid-1800s are celebrated on this stamp. The mint sheet shows in the margin the FOX.

Johan Carl Christian Petersen (June 28, 1813 – June 24, 1880) was a Danish seaman and interpreter who participated in several expeditions in Northern Canada and Greenland in search of the missing British explorer John Franklin.
Petersen was born in Copenhagen. At the age of about 20 he moved to Godthab (now Nuuk) in Greenland where he made a living as a carpenter and sailor. In 1841 he moved to Upernavik, at the time the most northern Danish colony in Greenland. There he married a native Inuit and took on their customs and way of living, in the process he became a quite skilled hunter, dog sledge driver, and observer.
He worked on William Penny’s Expedition (1850–51), Elisha Kane’s Second Grinnell Expedition (1853–1855) into Kane Basin, Francis Leopold McClintock Expedition (1857) and Isaac Israel Hayes North Pole Expedition (1860–61). He wrote two books about these expeditions.
On Kane’s expedition, he worked together with the young Eskimo Hans Hendrik who has Hans Island named after him.
After these expeditions, he moved back to Denmark and died in Copenhagen, aged 66.
Greenland 2013 31.50Kr sg?, Scott?
Source: Greenland Post. https://www.clydeships.co.uk
Petersen began his third Arctic voyage (1857-1859), this time onboard the FOX, a small steam yacht under the command of Francis Leopold McClintock. The expedition found the last evidence of the Franklin expedition to the west of King William Island.

Built as a wooden-hulled auxiliary steam yacht under yard No 198 by Alexander Hall and Sons, Aberdeen for Sir Richard Sutton, Norwood Park, Nottinghamshire.
16 June 1855 launched as the FOX.
Tonnage 177 grt, 156 nrt, 320 ton (bm), dim. Length: 132 ft (40.2 m) (hull overall), 120 ft 6 in (36.7 m)
Beam: 24 ft 4 in (7.4 m). Depth of hold: 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m).
Powered by one 2-cyl. horizontal trunk steam engine, 15 nhp (60ihp), one screw (lifting).
Three masts schooner-rigged.
Crew 26.
02 July 1855 registered in Aberdeen.
03 July 1855 sailed from Aberdeen to Norway and the Baltic prior before she was completely outfitted.
When Sir Richard Sutton died on 13 November 1855 the FOX was offered for sale by the builders, still with her outfit incomplete and she was laid up in Aberdeen.
05 May 1857 she was bought at auction by Lady Franklin, where after she was fitted out as a polar vessel, to be used in search of the missing expedition of her husband (1845-1848).
02 July 1857 she sailed for the northwest Passage, and in 1859 some relics of the two lost ships the HMS EREBUS and HMS TERROR were found. (The two ships were found in 2014 and 2016.)
21 September 1859 the FOX returned to Cowes.
December 1859 sold to J. Johnson, who sold her the same moth to Ragnar Westenholz and others in Copenhagen. Made thereafter sailing and whaling voyages.
June 1860 sold to Crossley & Co, London and fitted out to survey landing sections of the Transatlantic Cable to the USA via Greenland and Labrador.
December 1860 returned to Southampton.
February 1861 for sale.
March 1862 chartered by Weber & Co., Copenhagen for 6 months for use between Copenhagen-Ivigtut, South Greenland.
1886 Her tonnage given as 186 grt, 120 nrt. And she was re-engined by Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen with a 2-cyl 30 nhp (160 ihp) engine.
1890 Used as a tug at Ivigtut.
27 September 1912 went aground, refloated, and taken to Godhavn, later condemned and laid up.
After her 1913 condemnation, she was laid up for many years at Godhavn.
1926 The FOX was abandoned at Tasiussaq Harbour in Godhavn and till today her remains still can be seen.

More info is given on: http://www.aberdeenships.com/single.asp?index=100119

Source: https://www.clydeships.co.uk
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