ANTIOPE sailing vessel 1882

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ANTIOPE sailing vessel 1882

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:22 pm

Built in 1866 by the yard of John Reid & Co. of Glasgow for Joseph Heap & Sons at Liverpool.
Launched under the name ANTIOPE.
Tonnage 1.443 gross, dim. 242.3 x 38.4 x 23.7ft. (draught).
Ship rigged.
19 May 1882 delivered to owners

The ships of Heap were put in the Thames and Mersey Line, Heap was not a real shipowner, but a well know rice miller in Liverpool, for some time the Thames and Mersey Line was managed by Thompson, May & Co. of Liverpool.
The ANTIOPE was used in the service from Liverpool to Melbourne, after discharging loaded mostly horses for Madras or Calcutta, and loading rice back from Calcutta or Rangoon for her homeport.
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In 1868 she made her best passage to Australia, running from Liverpool to Melbourne in 68 days.
She was used for a long time in this service, before the steamers took over the rice trade.

1882 Sold to Mr. Beazley of Liverpool, (Australian Shipping Company) and managed by Gracie, Beazley & Co.
19 May 1882 delivered to her new owners, she loaded then in the East India Dock at London 2.700 tons cargo, and sailed under command of Capt. Black and a crew of 28 men on 23 June for Sydney, she made the passage in 101 days. Then she sailed to San Francisco in 84 days, and from there to Queenstown in 118 days. Capt Black wife sailed with him for many years, till she died on board between Melbourne and Liverpool, and was buried at sea.

19 March 1886 she rescued the crew of the American ship PAUL JONES off Lorne, Australia.
1886 Command was taken over by Captain Massey.
1890 Command taken over by Capt. Attridge.

1892 Laid up in Hamburg for 501 days. Then she loaded for Melbourne under Capt. Banks.

1897 Arrived at Falmouth after a passage of 132 days from Portland, Oregon, discharged at Cork, and thereafter dry-docked at Cardiff in May and was then sold to Captain George W. Murray.

She was then used in the South America trade.
1904 Sold to syndicate in Victoria B.C., commanded by Capt. J.J.R. Matheson.
During the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 she was captured by the Japanese, who sold her as a war prize to her captain J.J.R. Matheson in 1906.
Captain J.J.R. Matheson came from Ladysmith, British Columbia. He used her in the timber trade across the Pacific.
In 1908 on a voyage from Newcastle N.S.W. to San Francisco loaded with coal she ran in a furious gale, her cargo shifted in position 33 05 S and 174 E, and she went over on her beam ends. All hands were sent below to trim coal, but before they could get her upright the seas had swept her decks clean and most of her sails were blown away.
When she needed new rigging Capt. Matheson disposed her to the Paparoa Coal Co. of New Zealand in June 1915, she was then used as a coal hulk.
During World War I there was a shortage of tonnage and she was sold to the Otago Rolling Mills at Otago for £2750 in December 1915
Rerigged and refitted again in a sailing vessel, and off she went for a second career at the age of forty-eight.
Her first voyage was under Captain Telleck loading general cargo at Melbourne for Hobart and scrap iron for Dunedin, New Zealand. After her general cargo was discharged she took on board more scrap iron and some 340.000 feet of blue gum timber.

During bad weather she arrived for Bluff Harbour and to repair the damage received aloft, she signaled for a tug and pilot to enter the port. The pilot could due to bad weather not board her, but the tug managed to pass her a line. About 100 yards from the Bluff Wharf she got on the rocks in September 1916. Got a port list of 40 degree, with holds flooded.
Trying to refloat her was a very difficult task, first the blue gum timber and scrap iron had to be discharged. A big steam trawler and salvage tug were chartered both were fitted out with powerful pumps and these commenced to pump out 10.000 gallons of water every minute. But she did not raise an inch. A journalist with the name of Bannerman rowed himself on board in a small boat, to see with his own eyes how matters were progressing, clambering down in the fore hold he found a leak, after mats were put over the leak, the water lowered in the holds, and the vessel righted herself.
After 96 days aground at least the ANTIOPE came free, and floated again.
The ANTIOPE was then towed to Port Chalmers, the nearest place with a graving dock. She arrived there on 26 December 1916.
After repair her next voyage was in ballast to Newcastle N.S.W in 12 days. Till the end of the war she was used in the trade between New Zealand, Chile and San Francisco.
After the war she loaded copra at Suva, Fiji for Rotterdam, then she sailed to the Baltic to load timber for Delagoa Bay.
During discharging in Delagoa Bay she caught fire on 12 January 1921. The fire was extinguished but the old vessel was not worth the repair, and she was sold to Senna Sugar Estates, for use a sugar store hulk at Beira.

In this role she survived the next twenty years. I have been in Beira a few times but not seen her there more, so mostly scrapped or sunk.

Penrhyn Island 1981 6c sg180, 50c sg200, 1984 72c sg349, 1985 75c on 72c sgo29.

Source: The Colonial Clippers, The last of the Windjammers both by Basil Lubbock. Sea Breeze.
Sail in the South by Ronald Parsons.
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Re: ANTIOPE sailing vessel 1882

Post by Arturo » Thu Jan 29, 2015 9:03 pm

Antiope (Sailing Vessel) 1882

Penrhyn Islands 1981, S.G.?, Scott: 144.
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Re: ANTIOPE sailing vessel 1882

Post by Anatol » Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:11 pm

ANTIOPE (1866-1921).The painting of Jack Spurling
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