CAP PILAR
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 10:30 pm
45p SAILING SHIP CAP PILAR
Called at Tristan 31 January 1937. This was a refurbished barquetine. She carried mail to the island on its world cruise and was allowed to fly the Royal Mail Pennant by special permission, the last sailing ship to do so. It unloaded 9 bags of letters and 10 bags of parcels.
Tristan da Cunha press release.
Built as a wooden hulled cod fishing vessel for the Newfoundland Grand Banks by G Gautier, St Malo, France.
Launched as the CAP PILAR.
Tonnage 295 gross, dim.35,91 (bpp) x 8.38 x 3.87m.
Barquentine rigged.
Crew 30.
1911 Completed, homeport Saint-Malo in 1930 was the owner E.LeMoigne, St Malo I am not sure he was the owner when built.
She was used for the cod fisheries at the Grand Banks.
1935 Was she owned by Louis Laisney, St Malo not renamed.
1936 Sold to Adrian Seligman, at that time the CAP PILAR was laid up in St Malo. Not Renamed. Seligman would use the CAP PILAR as yacht for an around the world voyage with young untrained people.
31 September 1936 she sailed from London, with on board the mail for Tristan da Cunha under command of Seligman and a crew 18. The yacht did not have an engine or radio installation.
Via Brazil were Mrs Seligman joined the ship’s crew as stewardess she sailed to Tristan da Cunha where the mail was discharged.
She headed then for Cape Town, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands then via the Panama Canal to New York and Nova Scotia before heading back to the U.K where she arrived in September 1938 after a voyage of 32,500 miles.
1939 At Brightlingsea, Essex for repair, but when war broke out repairs stopped and she was moved to Wivenhoe’s dry-dock.
1946 She was acquired by the Palestine Maritime League, with the intention to restore her as a youth training ship, but this did not materialize, and slowly decaying, at the end she was partly scrapped before she was blown up in 1966 when the old shipyard was sold and the new owner concreted the old dry-dock over. The remains of the CAP PILAR are still entombed in the dry-dock at Wivenhoe.
Lloyds Register. Various internet sites.
Tristan da Cunha 2015 45p sg?, scott?
Called at Tristan 31 January 1937. This was a refurbished barquetine. She carried mail to the island on its world cruise and was allowed to fly the Royal Mail Pennant by special permission, the last sailing ship to do so. It unloaded 9 bags of letters and 10 bags of parcels.
Tristan da Cunha press release.
Built as a wooden hulled cod fishing vessel for the Newfoundland Grand Banks by G Gautier, St Malo, France.
Launched as the CAP PILAR.
Tonnage 295 gross, dim.35,91 (bpp) x 8.38 x 3.87m.
Barquentine rigged.
Crew 30.
1911 Completed, homeport Saint-Malo in 1930 was the owner E.LeMoigne, St Malo I am not sure he was the owner when built.
She was used for the cod fisheries at the Grand Banks.
1935 Was she owned by Louis Laisney, St Malo not renamed.
1936 Sold to Adrian Seligman, at that time the CAP PILAR was laid up in St Malo. Not Renamed. Seligman would use the CAP PILAR as yacht for an around the world voyage with young untrained people.
31 September 1936 she sailed from London, with on board the mail for Tristan da Cunha under command of Seligman and a crew 18. The yacht did not have an engine or radio installation.
Via Brazil were Mrs Seligman joined the ship’s crew as stewardess she sailed to Tristan da Cunha where the mail was discharged.
She headed then for Cape Town, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands then via the Panama Canal to New York and Nova Scotia before heading back to the U.K where she arrived in September 1938 after a voyage of 32,500 miles.
1939 At Brightlingsea, Essex for repair, but when war broke out repairs stopped and she was moved to Wivenhoe’s dry-dock.
1946 She was acquired by the Palestine Maritime League, with the intention to restore her as a youth training ship, but this did not materialize, and slowly decaying, at the end she was partly scrapped before she was blown up in 1966 when the old shipyard was sold and the new owner concreted the old dry-dock over. The remains of the CAP PILAR are still entombed in the dry-dock at Wivenhoe.
Lloyds Register. Various internet sites.
Tristan da Cunha 2015 45p sg?, scott?