TRURO paddle steamer
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:10 pm
Can not find much information on the TRURO only that there was a wooden paddle steamer, Lloyds Register 1859 has a TRURO paddle steamer sailing under command of Captain Willcock, and belonging to the Truro Shipping Company at Truro, U.K.
Tonnage 99 gross.
But is she the paddle steamer depict?
Wikipedia gives as follows:
The TRURO was the ship (from Madras) containing the first batch of 342 indentured Indian laborers to arrive in Port Natal (present Durban) on 16 November 1860. The second batch of 342 arrived in Durban on board the BELVEDERE (from Calcutta) 10 days later. Indian laborers were recruited to work on sugar plantations by South African government. In 2011, On the 150th anniversary South African government announced plans to launch a series of postal stamps to commemorate this. The TRURO ship left Madras and reached Port Natal November 16, 1860. The BELVEDERE ship left Calcutta and arrived at Port Natal November 26, 1860, while the UMLAZI ship arrived in 1911.
South Africa 2011 Standard Postage sg?, scott?
For some time I was wondering that I could not find anything on the TRURO till I found this two URL’s in which is given that she was not a paddle steamer but a barque rigged ship.
http://scnc.ukzn.ac.za/doc/B/Roots/Root ... istory.pdf
http://scnc.ukzn.ac.za/doc/B/Roots/Root ... _to_SA.pdf
The vessel depict on the South African stamp is not the TRURO, which vessel she is I don’t know.
Lloyds Register of 1860/61 gives only two ships with the name TRURO, the paddle steamer and a barque, and I am sure the barque was used for the transport of these coolies to South Africa.
1853 Built as a wooden barque by J Liang at Sunderland for his own account. Launched as the TRURO. Tonnage 613ton. She was registered in Sunderland.
Mostly used in the trade between the U.K. and Australia and India. She was under command of Captain T Duggan when she made the voyage from Madras to Durban; she sailed from Madras on 12 October 1860 and arrived on 16 November in Durban.
In the Australian newspaper The Queenslander is given that the TRURO sailed in October 1856 from Adelaide to Sydney under command of Captain Thomas Joseph Duggan and from Sydney he sailed to the East Indies and was trading there for several years.
Most probably was she sold sometimes later there, she disappears from Lloyds Register after 1862. Till that year she was still owned by J LIANG and under command of Captain Duggan.
Source: Lloyds Register and internet
Tonnage 99 gross.
But is she the paddle steamer depict?
Wikipedia gives as follows:
The TRURO was the ship (from Madras) containing the first batch of 342 indentured Indian laborers to arrive in Port Natal (present Durban) on 16 November 1860. The second batch of 342 arrived in Durban on board the BELVEDERE (from Calcutta) 10 days later. Indian laborers were recruited to work on sugar plantations by South African government. In 2011, On the 150th anniversary South African government announced plans to launch a series of postal stamps to commemorate this. The TRURO ship left Madras and reached Port Natal November 16, 1860. The BELVEDERE ship left Calcutta and arrived at Port Natal November 26, 1860, while the UMLAZI ship arrived in 1911.
South Africa 2011 Standard Postage sg?, scott?
For some time I was wondering that I could not find anything on the TRURO till I found this two URL’s in which is given that she was not a paddle steamer but a barque rigged ship.
http://scnc.ukzn.ac.za/doc/B/Roots/Root ... istory.pdf
http://scnc.ukzn.ac.za/doc/B/Roots/Root ... _to_SA.pdf
The vessel depict on the South African stamp is not the TRURO, which vessel she is I don’t know.
Lloyds Register of 1860/61 gives only two ships with the name TRURO, the paddle steamer and a barque, and I am sure the barque was used for the transport of these coolies to South Africa.
1853 Built as a wooden barque by J Liang at Sunderland for his own account. Launched as the TRURO. Tonnage 613ton. She was registered in Sunderland.
Mostly used in the trade between the U.K. and Australia and India. She was under command of Captain T Duggan when she made the voyage from Madras to Durban; she sailed from Madras on 12 October 1860 and arrived on 16 November in Durban.
In the Australian newspaper The Queenslander is given that the TRURO sailed in October 1856 from Adelaide to Sydney under command of Captain Thomas Joseph Duggan and from Sydney he sailed to the East Indies and was trading there for several years.
Most probably was she sold sometimes later there, she disappears from Lloyds Register after 1862. Till that year she was still owned by J LIANG and under command of Captain Duggan.
Source: Lloyds Register and internet