CALEDONIA 1840
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:01 pm
Comparing the stamp with drawings I have of the three CALEDONIA’s she must be the CALEDONIA built in 1840 of the Cunard Line.
The ship depict on the stamp is a paddle steamer, while the Anchor Line ships are screw, also she carries the Spanish flag, the Anchor Liner ships never carried the Spanish flag.
The rigging is exact the same as the Cunard liner, and differ of the Anchor Line vessels.
Built as wooden paddle steamer by R.Wood, Port Glasgow, Scotland for the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., which later became known as the Cunard Line.
1840 Launched under the name CALEDONIA, three sisters the BRITANNIA, ACADIA and COLUMBIA.
Tonnage 1.156 gross, 619 net., dim. 63.09 x 10.36m.
Powered by side-lever engines, 440 nhp., manufactured by Robert Napier, Glasgow, speed 8.5 knots. Bunker capacity 640 tons, daily consumption 37 tons.
Cargo capacity 225 tons.
Ernest Argyle, writing in Sea Breezes, July 1951 says that he believes the stamp on the "Liverpool Philatelic Congress" label is the CALEDONIA not, as printed on the stamp, Brittania.
Passenger accommodation for 115 first class passengers. Crew 89.
Three masted barque, square stern and clipper bow. One funnel (and not two as given in my first message on the vessel)
When the company won the mail contract the four paddlesteamers were ordered for a fortnightly mail service between Liverpool and Halifax and Boston.
19 September 1940 maiden voyage under Capt. Richard Cleland from Liverpool to Halifax and Boston.
10 Nov. 1849 made her last sailing in this service from Liverpool across the Atlantic to Halifax and Boston.
Early 1850 sold to the Spanish Navy, not renamed, sold together with the HIBERNIA for £35.000.
1851 Wrecked at Havana, Cuba, by running on to a shelf of rocks at the harbour mouth, the damage was so great that she had to be abandoned.
Cuba 1997 15c sg 4160, scott 3822
Sources: merchant Fleets in Profile Vol 2 by Duncan Haws. North Atlantic Seaways by N.R.P Bonsor.
http://www.newscotland1398.net/poneyexp ... yex13.html
The ship depict on the stamp is a paddle steamer, while the Anchor Line ships are screw, also she carries the Spanish flag, the Anchor Liner ships never carried the Spanish flag.
The rigging is exact the same as the Cunard liner, and differ of the Anchor Line vessels.
Built as wooden paddle steamer by R.Wood, Port Glasgow, Scotland for the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., which later became known as the Cunard Line.
1840 Launched under the name CALEDONIA, three sisters the BRITANNIA, ACADIA and COLUMBIA.
Tonnage 1.156 gross, 619 net., dim. 63.09 x 10.36m.
Powered by side-lever engines, 440 nhp., manufactured by Robert Napier, Glasgow, speed 8.5 knots. Bunker capacity 640 tons, daily consumption 37 tons.
Cargo capacity 225 tons.
Ernest Argyle, writing in Sea Breezes, July 1951 says that he believes the stamp on the "Liverpool Philatelic Congress" label is the CALEDONIA not, as printed on the stamp, Brittania.
Passenger accommodation for 115 first class passengers. Crew 89.
Three masted barque, square stern and clipper bow. One funnel (and not two as given in my first message on the vessel)
When the company won the mail contract the four paddlesteamers were ordered for a fortnightly mail service between Liverpool and Halifax and Boston.
19 September 1940 maiden voyage under Capt. Richard Cleland from Liverpool to Halifax and Boston.
10 Nov. 1849 made her last sailing in this service from Liverpool across the Atlantic to Halifax and Boston.
Early 1850 sold to the Spanish Navy, not renamed, sold together with the HIBERNIA for £35.000.
1851 Wrecked at Havana, Cuba, by running on to a shelf of rocks at the harbour mouth, the damage was so great that she had to be abandoned.
Cuba 1997 15c sg 4160, scott 3822
Sources: merchant Fleets in Profile Vol 2 by Duncan Haws. North Atlantic Seaways by N.R.P Bonsor.
http://www.newscotland1398.net/poneyexp ... yex13.html