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CHARLES COOPER sailing vessel

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:48 pm

Built as a wooden packet vessel by William Hall, Black Rock, Connecticut, .for Layton & Hurlbut at South Street, New York
11 Nov. 1856 launched under the name CHARLES COOPER, named after a South Street merchant who had 2/16 share in the vessel.
Tonnage 977 gross, dim. 166 x 35.10 x 17.11ft, draught 20ft.
After 1860 listed as 850 tons, with a length of 165 ft.
Built of oak, and had two decks continuous from bow to stern.

15 Jan. 1857 sailed for her maiden voyage, and she was the last of the American packet ships to sail out of South Street, New York, bound for Antwerp, Belgium.
The great transom stern is one of the best examples of the wood carvers craft of that time. (the transom was removed in 1978 and now is in the Port Stanley museum).
For two years she was used in the Leyton and Hurlbuts Line of Antwerp Packets, carrying westbound 822 new emigrants from Europe to America, also wine, glassware, tin and lead. Her eastbound voyage was with general cargo like cotton, codfish, mahogany and tobacco.
After two years in this service, she was copper sheated in July 1858 and put in the service to the Mediterranean and tramping as the demand arose.
1859 She was under command of Capt. J.N.Lamb.
1860 Sold to a group of Boston merchants of which Alonzo Hamilton was the major shareholder.
She was used in the general trade, first from New Orleans to load cotton and corn for the U.K.
From the U.K she made a voyage to Calcutta, and then through to Ceylon, before she sailed back to Boston, where she arrived in 1862.
Her next voyage was from Boston to Calcutta in 1862, then across the Pacific to San Francisco, from there to British Columbia to load timber for Melbourne, Australia, then again to Calcutta before returning to New York in 1866.
Her last voyage was under command of Capt. Dawson, when she sailed from Philadelphia with a cargo of coal bound for San Francisco via Cape Horn.
During the passage she sprang a leak and made a call at Port Stanley for repair. Arriving there on 25 September 1866 after a passage of 92 days.
After inspection it would appear that repairs proved too costly and she was condemned, and sold locally.
Sold to J.M. Dean & Co. at Port Stanley. Her cargo was transferred to an other American vessel the NORWESTER which arrived on 12 Nov. 1867. Thereafter the CHARLES COOPER was used as a storage hulk.
Mid 1888 taken over by Falkland Island Company, and she was used till the mid-1960s.
Nov 1968 sold to South Street Seaport Museum, New York.
The Museum sponsored two expeditions in 1976 and 1978 to conduct archeological research.
1981 Some emergency stabilization work was performed.
During the Falkland War she was not damaged.
1991 She is given up by the South Street Seaport Museum, the teredo and gribble worm, which were eating from within her woodwork, destroyed her.
1991 The CHARLES COOPER has been ordered out of the harbour of Port Stanley by the Falkland Island Government, but I think she is still (2003) in her last resting place in front of the Capstan Gift Shop at Port Stanley.

Falkland Islands 1988 58p sg566, scott?. 2005 55p sg?, scott?

Source: http://www.mercopress.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=2105 Ships of the World by Lincoln P Paine.
Watercraft Philately. http://www.shackletonfund.com/Current%2 ... holars.htm
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Re: CHARLES COOPER sailing vessel

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Mar 27, 2017 7:46 pm

Charles Cooper
Built by William Hall of Black Rock, Connecticut and launched on 11th November 1856, the 850 ton fully-rigged ship Charles Cooper was a fine example of American deep-water, wooden, merchant ship-building. She was built as a packet ship – the packets being vessels that ran to a fixed schedule, rather than sailing only when full. She would have been able to carry more than 250 passengers and 3,500 barrels of cargo. During her first voyage from New York – Antwerp – New York her mixed cargo included tobacco, flour, cotton, rice, resin, coffee, lard, codfish, beeswax, mahogany and logwood. On 1st June 1866, the “Cooper” set sail from Philadelphia. Bound for San Francisco with a cargo of coal, she encountered bad weather rounding Cape Horn and limped into Stanley Harbour on 25th September of the same year. Her condition was described in the Colonial Shipping Register as being “leaky and in need of repairs”. She was condemned as unseaworthy and never sailed again. The Charles Cooper was sold for use as a storage hulk and was grounded alongside the Actaeon at the now defunct West Jetty where she served as a warehouse until the 1960s. In 1968 the “Cooper” was bought by South Street Seaport Museum of New York who hoped to transport the ship “home”. When it became evident that this would be too expensive, the ship was returned to Falklands ownership and eventually given into the care of the Museum. In 2003 a small local team removed the rotting remains of the hulk of the Charles Cooper from Stanley Harbour as she was deemed a hazard to shipping. At the present time she rests onshore close to the Airport Road to the east of Stanley.

Source: Falkland Island Post.
Falkland 2017 76p sg?, scott?
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