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MAIDEN QUEEN

Post by shipstamps » Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:45 am


Built as a steel hulled cargo ship on the yard of R. Williamson at Harrington, for the British owner Brocklebank from Liverpool.
Brocklebank did have his own yard and mostly all his ships were built there, a little unusual to build a ship on an other yard.
20 July 1860 launched under the name MAIDEN QUEEN.
Tonnage 814 gross, 793 net, dim. 178 x 32.3 x 21ft. (other sources give for her beam 32.8ft.)
Ship rigged.
All Brocklebank ships carried the broad white stripe on their hull, as seen on the stamp.

The stamp is designed after a painting of the MAIDEN QUEEN which is now in the Merseyside Country Museum.

American Lloyds Registers are given as her owner Williamson & Son as owner, so it looks that she was built for the yard own account and managed by Brocklebank.
After delivery used in the China trade, her first five voyages home were with tea and averaged 132.4 days. Noting on her voyages in this tea-trade is given in The Tea Clippers by David R. Macgregor.
1870 Is the owner given as Brocklebank.
She was first under command of Capt. Smith until 1869 then Ray and Forseyth.

1879 Sold to F.Roters, Bremerhaven, renamed BETTY. For this owners she sailed under command of Capt. H. Schulken.
1886 Sold to E. Burchard, Rostock, Germany
1891 Used as a hulk at Santos, Brazil. Fate unknown.

On Upper Volta 1984 20F sg 734.

Source: The Tea Clippers. Enzyklopädie der Maritimen Philately (Navicula).

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