1838 Built as a schooner (other sources give as brigantine, on the stamp is she rigged as a hermaphrodite brig) by Oscars yard in Luleå for the Stockholm ship-owner Carl Fredrik Liljewalch.
30 July 1838 launched as the MARY ANN. She was named after the owner’s brother’s wife and daughter both named Mary Ann.
Tonnage 193 ton burden, dim. 21.8 x 7.1 x 3,65m
08 August 1838 registered.
Her maiden voyage was under command of Capt. L J Florén with a cargo of tar in barrels and timber she sailed to Stockholm.
Then she made some coastal trips.
08 July 1839 she arrived back in Stockholm with a cargo of grain, after discharging her crew signed off and a new captain and crew signed on for a world voyage.
She was after unloading loaded with all equipment and stored needed in the new colony Australia. The open spaces between the cargo were filled with oats to prevent shifting.
30 August 1839 the MARY ANN sailed under command of the 24 year old captain Nils Werngren from Stockholm, first to Copenhagen for stores then she continued her voyage to England.
03 October she arrived at Cowes on the Island of Wight.
After a stay there of two and a half months, in this time the MARY ANN was coppered and the rigging strengthened she sailed from Cowes on 16 December 1839, bound for Sydney.
Early January he arrived off the Cape Verde islands for fresh water, and after a stay of two days the MARY ANN left, did not make a call at Cape Town but rounded Cape of Good Hope on a safe distance before setting a easterly course.19 April 1840 after a passage of 89 days from the Cape Verde she sighted van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) passing it south before setting a northerly course to Sydney.
01 May 1840 she entered Sydney port the first Swedish ship that arrived in Australia.
The cargo on board was quickly sold but a new cargo was not available and Werngren heard that in Newcastle coal was loaded for South America and he sailed to this port.
The MARY ANN sailed with her hold full of coal to Valparaiso were he sold the coal before he sailed north to Huasco, Chile to load a cargo of copper ore.
Christmas Eve 1840 she rounded Cape Horn during a strong westerly wind.
The copper ore cargo was sold in Swansea, England, and after loading a cargo of 1,050 barrels of salt in that port he sailed homeward bound.
06 May 1841 the MARY ANN arrived in Stockholm after she circumnavigated the world, the first Swedish vessel that did this.
After arrival the MARY ANN was sold to Paul & Son, Stockholm.
1856 Sold to Carl Johan Pira at Ortala.
During a voyage from Umeå, Sweden to Flensburg, Germany with a timber cargo the MAR ANN got in heavy weather off the coast of Langeland, Denmark, she was dismasted.
Repaired at Luleå where after she was used as a cargo barge around the coast of Roslagen,
Her last owners were three men which had formed a shipping company, when one of the partners died, his two young daughters inherited his part, and she appointed a relative a Mr Eric Olsson as trustee.
The next 10 years the trustee trade with the MARY ANN but the profit he made he put in his own pocket leaving the two girls without any money from the profit of the ship.
1878 She was partly dismantled and some of her planking was used to build a house, and then she was sunk and used as a breakwater in the Väddö Canal Roslagen
Part of the wreck is still there today.
Sweden 1999 8k sg2021, scott? (The name on the stamp is given as MARY ANNE, but all sources give MARY ANN.)
Source: http://www.bottenviken.se/artiklar/2005 ... ryann.html
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_(1838)
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