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Karteria

Post by shipstamps » Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:36 pm


Some facts about the Karteria, the first steam warship of Greece, are to be found in the book by R. C. Anderson, "Naval Wars in the Levant." The Warship which is shown on the 2.50d. Greek stamp of 1971, was built in 1822 at Deptford, and armed with eight 68-pdr. guns. Her first commander was an English naval officer named Hastings, who had joined the Greeks in 1822 and had fought both afloat and ashore. He had then been sent to England to take command of the first steamer to engage in naval hostilities.
The Karteria reached Nauplia on September 15, 1826. Hastings and the Karteria took part in the first operation of 1827, an attempt on February 5 to relieve surrounded Greeks in the Acropolis of Athens by an attack on the harbours of Phaleron, Munychia and Piraeus, occupied by the Turks. The Karteria engaged the Turkish artillery near Piraeus, particularly during the first Greek attack and the unsuccessful Turkish counter-attack. The ship sustained superficial damage. SG1171

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Re: Karteria

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:03 pm

She was built as a wooden paddle steamer corvette at the yard of Daniel Brent at Deptford on the Thames for the Revolutionary Greek Navy. The order was financed by the London Philhellenic Committee.
Launched as the PERSEVERANCE.
Tonnage 233 tons, dim. 38.5 x 7.59m.
Two steam engines manufactured by Galloway, Smithfield, 85 hp, speed 7 knots.
Four masted, schooner rigged.
Armament: 4 – 68 lbs carronades and 4 – Paixhans 68 lbs guns.
Crew 181.
May 1826 completed.

She was the first steam powered war-ship of Greece.
26 May 1826 under command of Captain Frank Abney Hastings, who contributed a large sum of money to the construction of the ship, and supervised the building of the ship, she left Deptford and sailed for Greek.
July 1826 a boiler exploded on board putting her engines out of action, where after she carried on under sail to Sardinia where she was repaired.

15 August 1826 commissioned in Navplion where she was renamed in KARTERIA the translation of the word “perseverance”.
Then mostly used to bombard the Turkish coast batteries and forts. January 1827 she sails to Oropos where she attacks enemy coastal defences and ship with other ships of the Greek Navy, she captured two transports loaded with equipment and supplies and send to Poros.
March 1827 she got orders to lead the operations off Volos, in which shore defences are destroyed and five loaded transports are captured , two are destroyed and one runs aground. At Trikeri the squadron attack from a distance a large warship and four beached schooners, which are all destroyed.
In September 1827 she forced the passage of a Greek squadron through the narrows of Rion (Gulf of Corinth, silencing the two Turkish forts guarding it, then attacked the whole Turkish squadron in which she destroyed and sinking four large Turkish warships under which the Turkish flagship.
Also used as troop transporter and supported in May 1828 the attack on Mesolongion in the Gulf of Patras.
During the attack Captain Hastings was severely wounded and died of his wounds in the hospital at Anatoliko later. He was given a state funeral and buried at Poros, his hart is immured at the Anglican Church St Paul in Athens.

After the independence war, a civil war broke out in Greece and during one of the first civil conflicts of the new state, where the Hydriots revolt against the Greek State, KARTERIA is used by the Hydriots to take position west of Galalatas, Poros, on 16 July 1831.
27 July 1831 Together with the HELLAS, KARTERIA engages two Russian ships that support the Greek State.

01 August 1831Admiral Miaoulis set fire on his fleet at Poros, including the frigate HELLAS.
KARTERIA is saved by a Myconian sailor who swam to the ship and managed to cut the fuses.

1841 No longer mentioned in the Greek Navy List, but she was from 1831 already out of commission.

On the stamp is she the smaller vessel on the right.

Source: Log Book. Navicula http://greek-war-equipment.blogspot.com ... teria.html
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