ANTIOPE (1866-1921)- WOOL CLIPPER

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ANTIOPE (1866-1921)- WOOL CLIPPER

Post by Anatol » Fri Oct 01, 2021 2:24 pm

ANTIOPE (1866-1921), 1,443 registered tons, length 243ft 3ins, beam 38ft 4ins, depth 23ft 7in. Of iron construction, built by Reid, Glasow for Joseph Heap's Thames & Mersey Line. She was a large and strong vessel of her time. She carried emigrants and general cargo from Liverpool to Melbourne, and often carried horses to Calcutta or Madras, and jute and other Indian products back to Liverpool. In 1868, she made her best passage to Melbourne of 68 days. In 1883, The Thames & Mersey Line was sold to the Beazley interests and her voyages became less regular. She is not listed as in the Wool Fleet by Basil Lubbock between 1874-1890. She was sold in 1897 and for some years in th South American trade. In the Russo-Japanese War,she was captured by the Japanese under Russian colours. The Japanese sold her to a firm in British Columbia for the timber trade. In 1914, when World War I started, she was in a New Zealand port serving as a coal hulk. She was brought out of retirement and refurbished. In 1916, she went ashore in southern New Zealand was salvaged and again refurbished. She then carried coal from Newcastle, N.S.W. to Chile. In 1921, the vessel caught fire in Algoa Bay, South Africa, and after some repairs and beecame a store ship for a sugar company in Beira,Mozambique after a career of fifty-five years.
For more details about “Antiopa” see: ANTIOPE sailing ship 1866. по aukepalmhof »Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:22 PM
The design stamp is made after painting of Jack Spurling.
Liberia 2020;(4x100) $
Source: http://www.spurlingandrouxwatercolours.com/mpwc.html
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