TORCH
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 11:17 am
The gunboat Torch is seen on the stamp Cartagena Cantonal Revolution with the steamer Delphin and the frigate Mendez Nuñez
The stamp is based on an illustration (Landing crews of revolted Spanish ships at Fort Navidad , Carthagena) from the magazine The Illustrated London News, 30 August 1873.
The General characteristics are:
Launched. 24 December 1859
Hull Wooden
Propulsion Screw
Builders measure 428 tons
Displacement 570 tons
Guns 5
Fate 1881
Class Philomel
Broken up 1881.
From 17 September 1871 until 30 October 1873 Commander Hugh McNeile Dyer.
Mentionated in the article of the magazine The Illustrated London News, 30 August 1873.
“Much credit is due,in our judgment ,to Commander Dyer for the manner in which he acted upon this critical occasion.”
https://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=2194
https://hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/32406
Spain 2025,1,85€.
https://www.correos.es/es/es/particular ... /cartagena
For additional information see the topic.
viewtopic.php?t=18802
The stamp is based on an illustration (Landing crews of revolted Spanish ships at Fort Navidad , Carthagena) from the magazine The Illustrated London News, 30 August 1873.
The General characteristics are:
Launched. 24 December 1859
Hull Wooden
Propulsion Screw
Builders measure 428 tons
Displacement 570 tons
Guns 5
Fate 1881
Class Philomel
Broken up 1881.
From 17 September 1871 until 30 October 1873 Commander Hugh McNeile Dyer.
Mentionated in the article of the magazine The Illustrated London News, 30 August 1873.
“Much credit is due,in our judgment ,to Commander Dyer for the manner in which he acted upon this critical occasion.”
https://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=2194
https://hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/32406
Spain 2025,1,85€.
https://www.correos.es/es/es/particular ... /cartagena
For additional information see the topic.
viewtopic.php?t=18802