HARVEST QUEEN
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 5:40 pm
HARVEST QUEEN. Brig. Built by Hamilton of Bermuda. No further information - Bermuda 1977. 20c. SG382 (LB7/43)
Built in Joyce’s Dock, Bermuda, as a wooden hulled ship, the owner is given as N. McCallan but there were more shareholders in the ship.
08 March 1860 launched as HARVEST QUEEN.
Tonnage 144 ton, dim. 84 x 25 x 10ft.
Hull cedar built, two masts was of pine and taken from an other vessel.
Brigantine rigged.
19 April 1860 she made her maiden voyage from Bermuda under command of Captain Boggs and seven crew, loaded with potatoes, tomatoes, arrowroot and cotton among other items, bound for New York, she crossed also the North Atlantic to London and Mexico
11 January 1870 when she was entering the port of New York under command of Captain Boggs she came in collision with a sound steamer, which created so much damage that she had to anchor in a sheltered position.
13 January still at anchor the wind changed to an other quarter and the next morning the sea breached over the ship. It was very cold and freezing and the overcoming spray froze on deck and the rigging adding much weight on the ship, and after the anchor cables parted she drifted on the beach of Oak Neck, Long Island. and was lost.
For years she was laying on the beach her decks stove in and her forward deckhouse washed away.
Bermuda 1977 20c sg382, scott558.
Source: http://www.royalgazette.com/article/201 ... /701149973 American Lloyds Registers.