AFRIKA and EUROPE

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AFRIKA and EUROPE

Post by shipstamps » Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:22 am


A scientist and an inventor A.S. Popov demonstrated a device for electromagnetic waves reception at the session of Russian Physical and Chemical Society in St Petersburg in 1895.
It was the first radio and it seemed perfect those days. The stamp also features a radiotelegraph device used in radio communication between the Baltic ships – a cruiser AFRICA and a transport EUROPE featured in the stamp background.

Both ships were built in the U.S.A. including two other ships ( ZABIYAKA and AZIJA)and bought by the Imperial Government of Russia, when war threatened against the United Kingdom
Built as cargo vessels.
J. Reach at Chester built AFRIKA under yard No 170, for E.Ward & Co.
1877 Launched under the name S/S SARATOGA.
15 July 1878 bought by the Imperial Russian Government
Rebuilt by W.Cramp at Philadelphia under yard No 205 in a auxiliary cruiser (Russian Navy classed as a cruiser)
1881 Tonnage given by a Russian Navy book, Pamyatnaya Knizhka.
2.900/2.852 ton, 2.006 (bm), dim. 284 x 38 x 15.4ft.
Steam engine 287 nhp. (1.350 ihp), speed 12.5 knots.
Armament 5 – 6 inch, 5 – 9 pdrs., 2 – 4 pdrs., 2 Phalkranz .
Crew 28 + 241.
08 January 1879 in commission.

Between 1881-1882 visited Australia as flagship of Rear-Admiral Aslanbegov squadron.
24 March 1906 in use as a training ship for divers.
18 April 1918 decommissioned.
06 Sept. 1920 recommissioned.
01 December 1920 in service as an aviso/transport vessel by the Russian Navy.
29 September 1923 sold to Germany for scrapping.

EVROPA (EUROPA) built under yard No 200 by W.Cramp at Philadelphia.
1874 Launched under the name STATE OF CALIFORNIA
30 July 1878 bought by the Imperial Russian Government.
Rebuilt under yard No 202 by W.Cramp at Philadelphia as an auxiliary cruiser (Russian navy classed as a cruiser)
1881 Tonnage given as 3.160/3.196 ton, 2.001 ton (bm), dim. 307 x 37 x 15/17ft.
Powered by a steam engine of 350 nhp., 1.750 hp., speed 13 knots.
Armament 3 – 6 inch, 4 – 9 pdr., 4 Pahlkranz.
Crew 27 + 262.
03 May 1878 launched under the name EVROPA (EUROPA).
02 Jan 1879 commissioned.
26 July 1885 renamed S/S YAROSLAV of the Russian Voluntary Fleet.
1 March 1890 transferred to Montenegro.
31 July 1895, renamed again EVROPA.
01 Oct. 1900 training ship (torpedo school).
29 October 1909 transport vessel.
10 January 1917 submarine base, renamed BLOKSHIV No 10.
12 April 1918 seized by the Germans in Helsingfors (Helsinki).
04 June 1918 sunk at Helsingfors.
Thereafter salvaged and scrapped.

Source: MARHST-L. Andreas von Mach.

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