MARCO BOZZARIS ?
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 7:25 pm
By this stamp is given: Early 19th century pilot gig racing out to meet a steam driven vessel. The earliest recorded steam vessel to visit Bermuda was the American MARCO BOZZARIS, a side paddle wheeler, in 1833.
There were at that time two American steam ship MARCO BOZZARIS one was playing as a ferry three times a week between New Bedford, Woods Hole and the Vineyard, owned by Jacob Barker, there is a painting on the net which shows her, it can be possible that she is depict after she quit the service in the summer of 1832. The hull form looks the same and the funnel is as it looks in the same position.
I can’t find what has happened afterwards 1832 with her but it is possible that she was refitted in a merchant steamship with three masts and barque rigged.
She was built in New York in 1826 and had a tonnage of 129 tons.
It is given that she was lost in 1833 where I can’t find.
The other did belong to the Union Line and played between Philadelphia and Trenton on the Delaware River from 1828, it looks that she was a river steamer, and most probably not seaworthy.
MARCO BOZZARIS is not a common name in American shipping and maybe the first is depict or the designer has designed the stamp after a paddle steamer of that time, the Bermuda post has not given a ships name by the stamp only that the MARCO BOZZARIS was the first steam ship which visited the islands.
Bermuda 1977 17c sg381, scott357. (The pilot gig is designed after the RAMBLER.)
Source: Watercraft Philately 1980 page 51. Internet and http://woodsholemuseum.org/giffordpaint ... arcob.html
There were at that time two American steam ship MARCO BOZZARIS one was playing as a ferry three times a week between New Bedford, Woods Hole and the Vineyard, owned by Jacob Barker, there is a painting on the net which shows her, it can be possible that she is depict after she quit the service in the summer of 1832. The hull form looks the same and the funnel is as it looks in the same position.
I can’t find what has happened afterwards 1832 with her but it is possible that she was refitted in a merchant steamship with three masts and barque rigged.
She was built in New York in 1826 and had a tonnage of 129 tons.
It is given that she was lost in 1833 where I can’t find.
The other did belong to the Union Line and played between Philadelphia and Trenton on the Delaware River from 1828, it looks that she was a river steamer, and most probably not seaworthy.
MARCO BOZZARIS is not a common name in American shipping and maybe the first is depict or the designer has designed the stamp after a paddle steamer of that time, the Bermuda post has not given a ships name by the stamp only that the MARCO BOZZARIS was the first steam ship which visited the islands.
Bermuda 1977 17c sg381, scott357. (The pilot gig is designed after the RAMBLER.)
Source: Watercraft Philately 1980 page 51. Internet and http://woodsholemuseum.org/giffordpaint ... arcob.html