ROSE
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 8:21 pm
Built as a wooden paddle steamer by F.C.Clarke, West Park, Jersey for Thomas Rose, Jersey.
30 May 1851 launched as the ROSE.
Tonnage 83 ton, dim. 38.19 x 5.48 x 2.83m
Powered by? She received the boilers from the lost SUPERB, which were installed on 13 June.
1851 Completed.
21 July 1851 she made her maiden voyage to Guernsey and made an other voyage to Guernsey and Alderney on 30 July.
31 July in the service between Jersey and St Malo.
On 27 December 1853 was stated in a Jersey newspaper that she was sold to the Jersey & Australian S.N. Co. and that she would sail for Melbourne, Australia. Most probably the deal fell through want on 3 February 1854 in the newspaper was given that she was sold to Jersey Steam Packet Co.
She stayed in the service from Jersey to St Malo.
26 August 1856 she was in distress off the Minquiers, and towed by the SIR FRANCIS DRAKE to Jersey.
04 October 1861 she arrived for the last time in Jersey, after arrival laid up.
10 October 1862 sold to Captain John de Caen. After she was sold she was repaired by Mr. George Innis before she sailed to London on 30 October with the intention to be sold there.
10 June 1863 registered to William Hutchison Thomson, London.
24 December 1863 sold to John Yuill, London.
28 December 1863 sold to Donald Macgregor, London.
Thereafter she sailed from London across the North Atlantic to be used as a blockade runner for the Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
Used as blockade runner from April 1864 until June 1864.
On a voyage from Nassau, Bahamas with a crew of 20 men and a cargo of liquor and stores the ROSE was chased by the USS WAMSUTTA off Georgetown S.C. on shore on 2 June 1864.
Most of the cargo was unloaded by the Confederates before she was set on fire by the Union forces.
Jersey 2001 22p sg?, scott?
Source: http://www.channelislandsshipping.je/page87.html Lifeline of the Confederacy by S.R. Wise.
http://scubagonewild.com/documents/Ency ... strom).pdf
30 May 1851 launched as the ROSE.
Tonnage 83 ton, dim. 38.19 x 5.48 x 2.83m
Powered by? She received the boilers from the lost SUPERB, which were installed on 13 June.
1851 Completed.
21 July 1851 she made her maiden voyage to Guernsey and made an other voyage to Guernsey and Alderney on 30 July.
31 July in the service between Jersey and St Malo.
On 27 December 1853 was stated in a Jersey newspaper that she was sold to the Jersey & Australian S.N. Co. and that she would sail for Melbourne, Australia. Most probably the deal fell through want on 3 February 1854 in the newspaper was given that she was sold to Jersey Steam Packet Co.
She stayed in the service from Jersey to St Malo.
26 August 1856 she was in distress off the Minquiers, and towed by the SIR FRANCIS DRAKE to Jersey.
04 October 1861 she arrived for the last time in Jersey, after arrival laid up.
10 October 1862 sold to Captain John de Caen. After she was sold she was repaired by Mr. George Innis before she sailed to London on 30 October with the intention to be sold there.
10 June 1863 registered to William Hutchison Thomson, London.
24 December 1863 sold to John Yuill, London.
28 December 1863 sold to Donald Macgregor, London.
Thereafter she sailed from London across the North Atlantic to be used as a blockade runner for the Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
Used as blockade runner from April 1864 until June 1864.
On a voyage from Nassau, Bahamas with a crew of 20 men and a cargo of liquor and stores the ROSE was chased by the USS WAMSUTTA off Georgetown S.C. on shore on 2 June 1864.
Most of the cargo was unloaded by the Confederates before she was set on fire by the Union forces.
Jersey 2001 22p sg?, scott?
Source: http://www.channelislandsshipping.je/page87.html Lifeline of the Confederacy by S.R. Wise.
http://scubagonewild.com/documents/Ency ... strom).pdf