La Novara was an Austro-Hungarian Frigate built at Venice from 1843-1850 and was selected for a Round-The-World scientific expedition from 1857-1859.
She called at St Paul in November 1857 for a first scientific mission. SG204
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La Novara
La Novara was an Austro-Hungarian Frigate built at Venice from 1843-1850 and was selected for a Round-The-World scientific expedition from 1857-1859.
She called at St Paul in November 1857 for a first scientific mission. SG204
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The frigate NOVARA (not La NOVARA) was built at the Arsenal at Venice, for the Austrian Navy. At that time the Austrian Navy operated from the northern Italian ports during the period of the Austrian domination of Italy in the 1850s.
November 1843 keel laid down, intended name was MINERVA.
04 November 1850 launched under he name NOVARA, named after the Austrian victory at Novara in 1840.Tonnage 2,107 Austrian tons (2,630 English tons). Dim. 65 x 14 x 6m. (draught)
Ship rigged, sail area 18,291 square feet.
Armament 4 – 60pdrs and 30 – 6pdrs. guns.
June 1851 commissioned.
In 1856 the Austrian Emperor had granted permission to Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, commander-in-chief of the Austrian Navy to fit out a navy vessel for a scientific survey which would include a circumnavigation of the world.
For this voyage a sailing vessel was chosen instead of a steamship. The space required for bunkers, engine and boiler-room could be better be used for scientific apparatus and accommodation.
The NOVARA was appointed for this voyage and most of her refitting was carried out in the Pola Arsenal between 1856/57.
Armament reduced to 12 – 30 pdr. on deck and 18 – 30 pdr. on the battery deck.
30 April 1857 she sailed from Trieste under command of Baron von Wüllerstorf-Urbair, the captain was Frederick Baron Poeck, and a crew of 352 men, many from Italian origin.
Sailed via Gibraltar, Madeira and Rio de Janeiro to Cape Town. At Cape Town she got five Kaffir prisoners as apprentices on board, of which two deserted at Auckland.
From Cape Town she sailed via Cape of Good Hope, was in November 1857 off St Paul and Amsterdam Islands then via the Indian Ocean to Ceylon, Singapore, Batavia, Manila, Hong Kong and Shanghai for Sydney.
In Sydney she got a through refit and repair on Cockatoo Island, after considerable damage she sustained during a typhoon in the China Sea.
07 December 1858 she sailed from Sydney bound for Auckland where she arrived 22 December. In Auckland she took on board two Maori Chiefs which signed on as sailors. When the NOVARA returned home the two Maoris were send to Vienna, where they were given training as printers in the State Printing House. On their departure from Vienna in May 1860 for New Zealand she were given them a printing press.
08 January 1859 the NOVARA sailed from Auckland homeward bound and via Tahiti, Hawaii, Callao, Valparaiso, Falkland Islands, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon to Trieste, where she arrived on 26 August 1859.
Between 1860/64 rebuilt from a sail-ship in a steam screw driving frigate at San Rocco. Steam engine of 1,200 ihp.
1864 She brings Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian to Mexico, where he was crowned to Emperor.
1866 Was she one of the vessels in the Battle of Lissa against the Italian fleet.
After the Emperor of Mexico was killed in 1867, the body was brought back by the NOVARA.
22 August 1876 Transferred to a hulk. 1881 Engine removed, thereafter used as a floating Artillery School Ship.
22 August 1898 decommissioned, scrapped in 1899.
On the stamp of TAAF issued in 1985 the vessel shows the wrong flag, she carried the in 1747 introduced war flag of Maria Theresia, the double black eagle head flag, but the flag carried by the Austrian Navy from 1786 was the red white red flag.
French Southern and Antarctic Territories 1985 12f80 sg204, scottC87
Hungary 1999 32fo, sg4421, scott?
Source: Enzyklopädie der Maritimen Philatelie (Navicula). New Zealand Marine News Vol 40 no 2.
November 1843 keel laid down, intended name was MINERVA.
04 November 1850 launched under he name NOVARA, named after the Austrian victory at Novara in 1840.Tonnage 2,107 Austrian tons (2,630 English tons). Dim. 65 x 14 x 6m. (draught)
Ship rigged, sail area 18,291 square feet.
Armament 4 – 60pdrs and 30 – 6pdrs. guns.
June 1851 commissioned.
In 1856 the Austrian Emperor had granted permission to Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, commander-in-chief of the Austrian Navy to fit out a navy vessel for a scientific survey which would include a circumnavigation of the world.
For this voyage a sailing vessel was chosen instead of a steamship. The space required for bunkers, engine and boiler-room could be better be used for scientific apparatus and accommodation.
The NOVARA was appointed for this voyage and most of her refitting was carried out in the Pola Arsenal between 1856/57.
Armament reduced to 12 – 30 pdr. on deck and 18 – 30 pdr. on the battery deck.
30 April 1857 she sailed from Trieste under command of Baron von Wüllerstorf-Urbair, the captain was Frederick Baron Poeck, and a crew of 352 men, many from Italian origin.
Sailed via Gibraltar, Madeira and Rio de Janeiro to Cape Town. At Cape Town she got five Kaffir prisoners as apprentices on board, of which two deserted at Auckland.
From Cape Town she sailed via Cape of Good Hope, was in November 1857 off St Paul and Amsterdam Islands then via the Indian Ocean to Ceylon, Singapore, Batavia, Manila, Hong Kong and Shanghai for Sydney.
In Sydney she got a through refit and repair on Cockatoo Island, after considerable damage she sustained during a typhoon in the China Sea.
07 December 1858 she sailed from Sydney bound for Auckland where she arrived 22 December. In Auckland she took on board two Maori Chiefs which signed on as sailors. When the NOVARA returned home the two Maoris were send to Vienna, where they were given training as printers in the State Printing House. On their departure from Vienna in May 1860 for New Zealand she were given them a printing press.
08 January 1859 the NOVARA sailed from Auckland homeward bound and via Tahiti, Hawaii, Callao, Valparaiso, Falkland Islands, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon to Trieste, where she arrived on 26 August 1859.
Between 1860/64 rebuilt from a sail-ship in a steam screw driving frigate at San Rocco. Steam engine of 1,200 ihp.
1864 She brings Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian to Mexico, where he was crowned to Emperor.
1866 Was she one of the vessels in the Battle of Lissa against the Italian fleet.
After the Emperor of Mexico was killed in 1867, the body was brought back by the NOVARA.
22 August 1876 Transferred to a hulk. 1881 Engine removed, thereafter used as a floating Artillery School Ship.
22 August 1898 decommissioned, scrapped in 1899.
On the stamp of TAAF issued in 1985 the vessel shows the wrong flag, she carried the in 1747 introduced war flag of Maria Theresia, the double black eagle head flag, but the flag carried by the Austrian Navy from 1786 was the red white red flag.
French Southern and Antarctic Territories 1985 12f80 sg204, scottC87
Hungary 1999 32fo, sg4421, scott?
Source: Enzyklopädie der Maritimen Philatelie (Navicula). New Zealand Marine News Vol 40 no 2.
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