TRADEWIND
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 8:47 pm
I believe the vessel on the stamp is not the TRADEWIND but an other cruise vessel, the funnel, masts and outline do not match with the photo of the TRADEWIND.
Built as a passenger-cargo vessel under yard No 335 by William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia for the New York & Cuba Mail SS Co., (Ward Line), New York.
21 March 1906 launched as the MEXICO.
Tonnage 6,207 gross, 3,901 net. Dim. 127 x 15.2m., length bpp.121.9m.
Powered by two 6-cyl. triple expansion steam engines, manufactured by builders, 749 nhp, twin screws, speed 17 knots.
Accommodation for 189 first, 48 second and 24 third class passengers.
May 1906 completed, homeport New York.
After delivery in the service between New York and Havana, Cuba.
1930 Sold to Alaska Steamship Co., New York and renamed ALEUTIAN.
Accommodation for 334 first class and 162 steerage passengers.
03 May 1930 made her first voyage for the new owners from Seattle to Alaska.
From 1942 till 1946 USA Army troop transport.
November 1946 returned to the Alaska service.
1953 Chartered by the Hawaiian Pacific Line, a new formed line in 1953 to operate a low-prize shipping line between California and Hawaii
28 November 1953 the ALEUTIAN arrived in San Francisco.
The first voyage was set on 05 December but troubles with the inter-union made it necessary to cancel the voyage, all the next sailings dates were cancelled due to union troubles and the ALEUTIAN never sailed for the company.
The charter was cancelled and the ALEUTIAN left San Francisco on 17 December 1953 bound for Seattle.
1954 A new cruise company was formed the Caribbean Atlantic Steamship Company, Monrovia, Liberia.
1954 The ALEUTIAN was sold to the new formed company; she was reconditioned and painted white and renamed TRADEWIND. Accommodation for 240 passengers.
January 1955 she sailed for her first cruise from Miami to the Caribbean. During the summer she made also cruises from Washington DC to Bermuda and Nassau.
07 January 1956 she was impounded in California for outstanding depth of US$ 550,000, where after she was sold at auction to Boston Metals for scrapping en resold to Van Heyghen Freres, Ghent, Belgium for scrap where she arrived on April 1956.
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Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz US Passenger Liners since 1945 by Milton H. Watson.
Lloyds Register..
I got the following from Mr. Peter Crichton on the vessel depict on the stamp and I agree with him that she is one of the two ships
Peter gives:
The funnel colours of the cruise ship are those of the Grace Line.
The stamp design is based on an official Grace Line postcard and the ship is either the SANTA PAULA or SANTA ROSA.
I am attaching a link to the postcard and you will see that it is the same design as that on the stamp with the exception of the palm trees which have been moved to the right. The crates and boxes by the side of the ship are identical. Humans have been removed to give a better view of the ship !!
http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/GraceLinePCs ... chor786404
Scroll down just over half way and you will find the postcard.
I do not think it will be possible to say which particular ship is shown on the stamp. There is, what appears to be, part of a name shown on the postcard but I think this is SANTA rather than PAULA or ROSA.
Built as a passenger-cargo vessel under yard No 335 by William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia for the New York & Cuba Mail SS Co., (Ward Line), New York.
21 March 1906 launched as the MEXICO.
Tonnage 6,207 gross, 3,901 net. Dim. 127 x 15.2m., length bpp.121.9m.
Powered by two 6-cyl. triple expansion steam engines, manufactured by builders, 749 nhp, twin screws, speed 17 knots.
Accommodation for 189 first, 48 second and 24 third class passengers.
May 1906 completed, homeport New York.
After delivery in the service between New York and Havana, Cuba.
1930 Sold to Alaska Steamship Co., New York and renamed ALEUTIAN.
Accommodation for 334 first class and 162 steerage passengers.
03 May 1930 made her first voyage for the new owners from Seattle to Alaska.
From 1942 till 1946 USA Army troop transport.
November 1946 returned to the Alaska service.
1953 Chartered by the Hawaiian Pacific Line, a new formed line in 1953 to operate a low-prize shipping line between California and Hawaii
28 November 1953 the ALEUTIAN arrived in San Francisco.
The first voyage was set on 05 December but troubles with the inter-union made it necessary to cancel the voyage, all the next sailings dates were cancelled due to union troubles and the ALEUTIAN never sailed for the company.
The charter was cancelled and the ALEUTIAN left San Francisco on 17 December 1953 bound for Seattle.
1954 A new cruise company was formed the Caribbean Atlantic Steamship Company, Monrovia, Liberia.
1954 The ALEUTIAN was sold to the new formed company; she was reconditioned and painted white and renamed TRADEWIND. Accommodation for 240 passengers.
January 1955 she sailed for her first cruise from Miami to the Caribbean. During the summer she made also cruises from Washington DC to Bermuda and Nassau.
07 January 1956 she was impounded in California for outstanding depth of US$ 550,000, where after she was sold at auction to Boston Metals for scrapping en resold to Van Heyghen Freres, Ghent, Belgium for scrap where she arrived on April 1956.
Aruba 2013 250c sg?, scott?
Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz US Passenger Liners since 1945 by Milton H. Watson.
Lloyds Register..
I got the following from Mr. Peter Crichton on the vessel depict on the stamp and I agree with him that she is one of the two ships
Peter gives:
The funnel colours of the cruise ship are those of the Grace Line.
The stamp design is based on an official Grace Line postcard and the ship is either the SANTA PAULA or SANTA ROSA.
I am attaching a link to the postcard and you will see that it is the same design as that on the stamp with the exception of the palm trees which have been moved to the right. The crates and boxes by the side of the ship are identical. Humans have been removed to give a better view of the ship !!
http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/GraceLinePCs ... chor786404
Scroll down just over half way and you will find the postcard.
I do not think it will be possible to say which particular ship is shown on the stamp. There is, what appears to be, part of a name shown on the postcard but I think this is SANTA rather than PAULA or ROSA.