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DUCHESSA DI GENOVA

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Nov 08, 2017 7:44 pm

This stamp issued by Uruguay in 2017 shows Mother Francisca Rubatto arriving in South America, with in the background a ship, which could be a imagination of the designer of the stamp, but I believe she was an existing vessel She has a black painted funnel the only Italian company which had a black funnel at around that time was the Societa di Navigazione a Vapore Fratelli Lavarello, but this company got in financially trouble in 1891 and the fleet was taken over by La Veloce another company based in Genova but this company funnel colours are not black. Only the CITTA DI GENOVA built in 1889 and taken over by La Veloce looks if the designer has used this ship for his stamp. The photo shows her as SAVOIE. She has another funnel length and her after mast is not in the same position as on the stamp.

There are many web-sites in Spanish and English on her but not any has the shipsname in which she arrived in Montevideo in 1892. At least I found an Italian web-site which got the ships name as DUCHESSA DI GENOVA on which Mother Francisca Rubatto sailed to Montevideo in 1892.

The Uruguay Post has by the stamp:
125 years after the arrival of M. Francisca Rubatto to South America.

Ana Maria Rubatto Pavesio, known as the Blessed Francisca Rubatto (Carmagnola, February 14, 1844 - Montevideo, August 6, 1904), Italian religious foundress of the school of the Capuchin Sisters of Mother Rubatto. She had an outstanding performance in Uruguay. The Catholic Church venerates her as beata.

Born in Italy, daughter of Juan Tomás Rubatto and Catalina Pavesio. In 1863 she was orphaned and moved to Turin, where she entered the Cottolengo. On January 23, 1885, she took the habit with other compañeras, founding in Loano the Congregation of the Capuchin Sisters, and on September 17, 1886 she made the religious vows with the name of Maria Francisca de Jesús. In 1892 he left for Uruguay with three compañeras, and they began a pastoral and assistance task. In the neighborhood of Belvedere they created a sewing workshop, which eventually became the San Jose de la Providencia School, and also made missionary trips to Argentina and Brazil, where six of their compañeras gave their lives.in 1904. To date (2016), her Daughters serve in the Church in Italy, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Peru and East Africa.

On October 10, 1993 she was beatified by Pope John Paul II, being the first Uruguayan blessed.

After much searching on the net at least I found that M. Francisca Rubatto left on 03 May 1892 on board the DUCHESSA DI GENOVA bound for Montevideo and she arrived in Montevideo on 24 May 1892. http://www.ciseionline.it/raccontimigra ... ria_08.asp

A photo of DUCHESSA DI GENOVA from around 1892 shows her with three masts and two funnels, the vessel on the stamp has one funnel the third mast could be hidden behind the portrait of Francisca Rubatto.

She was built as a steel hulled cargo-passenger ship under yard no 390 by Robert Napier & Sons, Govan, Scotland for Cia Mexicana Transatlantica, Vera Cruz, Mexico.
29 February 1884 launched as the MEXICO, two sisters the OAXACA and TAMAULIPAS.
Tonnage 4,142 gross, 2,793 net, dim 121,9 bpp. X 13.4 x 7.04m.
Powered by one 3-cyl. triple expansion steam engine, manufactured by the shipbuilder, 1,000 nhp., one screw, speed 14 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 98 first, 108 second and 740 third class passengers.
1884 Completed.
The three ships were built for the liner service between Liverpool and Mexico. But the service was short lived and already in 1887 the three vessel were sold to the Italian company La Veloce Navigazione Italiana, Genoa.
The MEXICO was delivered to the new owner in Liverpool and renamed in DUCHESSA DI GENOVA.
19 November 1887 she left for the first time Genoa and via Barcelona, Las Palmas to Montevideo and Buenos Aires.
21 December 1905 she was sold for breaking up, and she was broken up at Genoa, work commenced in February 1906.

Source: http://www.clydeships.co.uk. Miramar. South Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor.

Uruguay 2017 $20 sg?, scott?
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