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Juno HMS

Post by shipstamps » Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:33 pm



She was built as a 6th Rate frigate on the Pembroke Dock at Pembroke for the Royal Navy.
01 July 1844 Launched under the name HMS JUNO.
Tonnage 923 tons (bm), dim. 131 x 41ft.
Armament 2 – 8 inch, 24 – 32 pdrs.
 
 
After commissioned send to the Pacific Station and Australian and New Zealand waters.
1847 Under command of Capt. Blake.
She sailed from Sydney, Australia on 06 August 1855 under command of Capt. S. G. Fermantle to find out of the Pitcairn Island inhabitants wished to migrate to Norfolk Island.
She arrived on Pitcairn Island the 17th August.
When Fremantle landed, the total population of the island was assembled in the schoolhouse and he explained the reason of his visit to the islanders. Then a description of Norfolk Island was read out by George Nobbs, which was prepared by Sir William Denison.
After two days the islanders decided to accept the offer to migrate to Norfolk Island.
And with this written decision signed by Frederick Young and George Nobbs, Capt Fremantle set sail for Australia.
In 1856 the islanders were taken from Pitcairn on board the MORAYSHIRE.
 
After the Pitcairn Islanders arrived on Norfolk Island, the JUNO visited the island in June 1856.
 
In 1857 she returned home from Sydney and via Apia, Cocos Islands, and Tahiti via Cape Horn arrived at Spithead.
When the JUNO visited the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in 1857, Capt. Fremantle declared the island part of the British Dominions.
After she arrived back in the U.K. she became a hulk.
 
1860 At Portsmouth probably in ordinary (reserve), no crews on board only a few watchmen. (per Navy list of that year.)
1870 Under Harbour Service and describe as a Police Vessel at Portsmouth. (per Navy list of that year.)
10 Jan 1878, the temporary headquarters of the Portsmouth Dockyard Police, renamed MARINER.
 
The JUNO was towed to Pembroke, and converted to provide suitable accommodation for ordinary seamen under instruction. £28.000 was spent to convert and refit her in a training vessel, about £8.000 less than a new ship would cost in that time.
22 Jan. 1878 renamed ATALANTA.
17 September 1878 commissioned under command of Captain Francis Stirling, (wrongly given on the Maldives stamp issued in 2002 RF5 sg ? as ATLANTA.)
 
On her third training voyage, when she had been in a port with yellow fever in the West Indies, she made a call at Bermuda on 29 January 1880, most probably she was not so welcome, and set sail two days later for the U.K. It was the last what was seen of the vessel and her 15 officers, 250 men, 2 boys and 14 Royal Marines. At that time she was still under command of Stirling.
 
A massive search follows. The British gunboat AVON finds masses of wreckage from an unidentified vessel off the Azores, close to the usual route of training vessels. In April there was a report that the steamer TAMAR had sighted a capsized copper-bottomed vessel. The captain later denies the report. On 28 April 1880 a message in a bottle is found from the ATALANTA but is later proven to be a hoax. On 20 April the British ship Wye leaves Gibraltar to search the area of Vigo Bay, Spain were portions of a wrecked vessel washed onto the shore. Noting new is discovered.
On 2 June 1880 the captain of a vessel that arrived at Queenstown from Demerara said he passed a raft that was bolted together and there were corpses dressed in white. Supposedly the raft and two corpses were seen by another vessel. On 15 June 1880 another bottle was picked up with another note in it. The note stated “April 17 1880; training ship ATALANTA. We are sinking in longitude 27 degrees, latitude 32 degrees. Any person finding this note will please advertise in the daily paper. John L. Hutchings, Distress”. On 21 June 1880 a piece of barrel stave was found on the beach at Cow Bay, Nova Scotia. A message was written on it with lead pencil which stated: “ATALANTA going down, April 12 1880; send this to Mrs. Mary White, piers Sussex. James White.” (the last comes from the book Limbo of the Lost-Today by John Wallace Spencer, the book did not give sources.)
 
There were not any survivors and the Committee of Enquiry of the Admiralty could come to no conclusion as to the cause of the loss.
 
 
 Source; The Pitcairners by Robert Nicolson.  http://www.rmstitanichhistory.com/atlanta/atlanta.html
Not a good side the vessel depict is not the ATALANTA.
http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk ... alanta.htm
 
 
 

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Re: Juno HMS

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:06 pm

The prime reason for the visit of the HMS JUNO in 1855 by an Australian based man-of-war was to ascertain whether the inhabitants of Pitcairn would be willing to be taken to Norfolk Island. This was decided on a vote of 153 to 34 and took place in 1856. The JUNO (At that time the ATALANTA) floundered in the Atlantic in 1880 with all crew lost.
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