AVON paddlesteamer 1843

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AVON paddlesteamer 1843

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Apr 26, 2009 9:18 pm

Built as a paddle- passenger/cargo vessel by Wm. Patterson, Bristol for the Royal Mail Line.
Launched under the name AVON.
Tonnage 2.069 grt, dim. 83.82 x 18.29 (over paddle boxes) x 9.14m., length on deck 74.68m.
Powered by a 2-cyl. side liver steam engine, 400 nhp., speed 9 knots.
Accommodation for 100 passengers.
Underwater copper sheathed, and her hull was made of British and African oak with diagonal iron and wood fastening.
First rigged as three-mast barkentine, square rigged on the foremast, later brig rigged.
February 1843 completed. Building cost £66.000, she was £6.000 expensive than her sisters, after her engine builder Acramans, Morgan & Co. got bankrupt.
1842 Floated out of dock, but delivery delayed due to financial-problems with the engine builder.
February 1843 completed.

01 February 1843 maiden voyage from Southampton to the West Indies in the Royal Mail service.
1852 Lengthened by Wm. Pitcher, Northfleet.
21 November 1863 while moored at Colon, during a gale she was tore from her moorings, and wrecked on the nearby rocks.

Montserrat 1980 $1.20 sg464, scott?. 1990 $1.50 on $1.20 sg 822, scott?.

Source: Merchant Fleets Royal Mail Line & Nelson Line by Duncan Haws.
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