YORKSHIRE sailing vessel 1843
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 1:06 am
The USA issued a 28c postal card in 1988 featuring the packet vessel YORKSHIRE. The design for the imprinted stamp was taken from an original painting by the card’s designer Richard Schlecht
Built under yard No 13 by William H. Webb, New York for Charles H. Marshall (Black Ball Line), New York.
25 October 1843 launched as the YORKSHIRE.
Tonnage 996 tons, dim. 167 x 36 x 21Ft.
After she was built was she the fastest sailing packet on the North Atlantic between New York and Liverpool.
Her first captain was Edward R Fairbanks and she made a few very fast passages, her shortest passage was 15½ days from Liverpool to Sandy Hook, New York in November 1846.
Her last voyage was under command of Captain Edward R. Fairbanks when she left New York on 02 February 1862 with three passengers and a crew of 23.
Thereafter was she not sighted or heard more again.
In America some have commented on the unusual configuration of the sails, I have not any idea about the set of sails during tacking and will give the explanation of the designer as given in Watercraft Philately 1988 page 25.
Mr. Schlecht defended his design in the 15 August issue of Linn’s “a deep-water man would find nothing amiss”. He would see the YORKSHIRE is merely tacking. She has just come through the wind and is paying off to starboard. The lee braces of the foresails will be hauled directly, and she will fall off on the port tack.
For illumination on the subject of the handling of square rigged vessels I refer … to Darcy leuer’s The Young Sea Officer’s Sheet Anchor (1819), reprinted in facsimile by the Edward Sweetman Co in 1963. A look at the many early 19th century paintings of the Roux Brothers of Marseilles would shed additional light on the mater, as would a careful reading of C S Forester’s Horatio Hornblower series”
Linn’s also noted that a number of its other readers had written to defend the accuracy of Mr Schlecht’s portrayal of the sailing ship.
USA 1988 28c postal card.
Source: http://www.oocities.org/mppraetorius/com-yo.htm
Built under yard No 13 by William H. Webb, New York for Charles H. Marshall (Black Ball Line), New York.
25 October 1843 launched as the YORKSHIRE.
Tonnage 996 tons, dim. 167 x 36 x 21Ft.
After she was built was she the fastest sailing packet on the North Atlantic between New York and Liverpool.
Her first captain was Edward R Fairbanks and she made a few very fast passages, her shortest passage was 15½ days from Liverpool to Sandy Hook, New York in November 1846.
Her last voyage was under command of Captain Edward R. Fairbanks when she left New York on 02 February 1862 with three passengers and a crew of 23.
Thereafter was she not sighted or heard more again.
In America some have commented on the unusual configuration of the sails, I have not any idea about the set of sails during tacking and will give the explanation of the designer as given in Watercraft Philately 1988 page 25.
Mr. Schlecht defended his design in the 15 August issue of Linn’s “a deep-water man would find nothing amiss”. He would see the YORKSHIRE is merely tacking. She has just come through the wind and is paying off to starboard. The lee braces of the foresails will be hauled directly, and she will fall off on the port tack.
For illumination on the subject of the handling of square rigged vessels I refer … to Darcy leuer’s The Young Sea Officer’s Sheet Anchor (1819), reprinted in facsimile by the Edward Sweetman Co in 1963. A look at the many early 19th century paintings of the Roux Brothers of Marseilles would shed additional light on the mater, as would a careful reading of C S Forester’s Horatio Hornblower series”
Linn’s also noted that a number of its other readers had written to defend the accuracy of Mr Schlecht’s portrayal of the sailing ship.
USA 1988 28c postal card.
Source: http://www.oocities.org/mppraetorius/com-yo.htm