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john sefton
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Lucy Margaret

Post by john sefton » Mon May 25, 2009 7:17 pm

This Poland stamp honours Stefan Scholtz, who was born in 1861 in Kalisz, formerly Russian-Poland. He was the son of a rich industrialist. Scholtz joined the Russian Navy as an officer-cadet. In 1880-1, he sailed aboard the ship General-Amiral, around the world. In 1882 he left the Navy and decided to explore the West Coast of Africa, particularly the Camerouns. He obtained considerable backing for the venture from his friends and others. He took the name of his mother, Rogosinski, because he wanted to be regarded as purely Polish. At Le Havre he bought a 100-ton, 3-masted lugger and named her Lucja Malgorzata. (Lucy Margaret). On December 13, 1882, he left with a French crew, his vessel flying the French, and Warsaw town flags. Many storms were encountered but he safely reached Ambos Bay, in the Camerouns. He built a station and, with his friend Kiemens Tomozack, started to map the little-known coastline of the Camerouns, wrote a dictionary of the native language, and collected local articles of all kinds. About that time the Germans occupied the Camerouns and did not like what he was doing; he had to leave when he was not given a plantation he had been promised by the English representative in the area.
Sea Breezes March 1974.
Poland SG2268
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aukepalmhof
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Re: Lucy Margaret

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun May 14, 2017 8:30 pm

She was built as a 3 masted wooden fishing lugger at a shipyard in Fécamp, France around 1860.
Tonnage around 100 tons, with a length of 25m and a beam of about 6.4m, maximum draught 2.7m.
Launched as the La LUCIE MARGUERITE.
After completing used as a fishing vessel from Le Havre.

1882 Stefan Szole Rogozinski bought the vessel and renamed her LUCJA MALGORZATA, and he would use the vessel for his expedition to Cameroon, Africa.
13 December 1882 the LUCJA MALGORZATA set sail from Le Havre with on board 5 French crew and 12 scientists.
Due to bad weather she made a call on 16 December at Falmouth before heading to the south, made a call at Funchal, Madeira where she arrived on 18 January 1883.
March she arrived in the Canary Islands before heading to the Cabo Verde Islands and Monrovia.
1 April 1883 she arrived in the Ivory Coast and on 21 April arrived on the Mondoleh Island, Cameroon, where the expedition planned to build a camp.
May 1883 the LUCJA MALGORZATA was sold to Germans who arrived at Mondoleh Island.
19/20 May 1883 during a storm in the Gulf of Ambas, between Bioko Island and the coast of Africa she sank.
Some more information on the expedition is given on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Janikowski

Poland 1973 1z50 sg2268, scott2005.
Source: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81ucj ... %82gorzata
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