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JHELUM

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:31 pm

Built as a wooden three-masted vessel by Joshep Steel & Son, Liverpool for their one account.
24 May 1849 launched under the name JHELUM, named after a tributary of the Indus River and the site of a battle between English and Indian forces in early 1849.
Tonnage 428 gross, dim. 37.5 x 8.3 x 5.5m.
Ship rigged.
1849 Completed.

She was built along the lines of a typical East Indiaman, with a bluff bow and a full body.
A great deal of mahogany was used in her construction, and she was copper fastened, and below the waterline treenailed.
Built for the trade from England to India, she made only one voyage to India, before Steel send her to South America.
Outward bound with general cargo, and the return trip with nitrate or copper ore.
Altogether she made thirteen voyages from England to Peru, Ecuador or Chile for Steel.
1858 Rerigged in a bark, most probably to sail with a smaller crew.
1863 Steel sold his interest in the ship to John Widdicombe and Charles Bell, Liverpool.
Thereafter still used in the trade between Liverpool and South America, but on the outward bound voyage mostly loaded with coal.
She made one voyage from South America to Hamburg and in 1871 under command of Captain G Stannus to Baltimore in the USA.

Her last voyage she made from Cardiff, she sailed on 26 June 1869 from this port under command of Captain Charles Beaglehole, and a crew of 11 men, with a cargo of coal bound for Montevideo.
22 September 1869 she arrived at Rio de Janeiro, to land two sick sailors, after arrival the other crewmembers deserted the vessel, and under an other crew she sailed out again, arriving 13 November 1869 on the road of Montevideo.
The cargo was not discharged there; Beaghole received orders to sail to Rosario, Argentine
to discharge the cargo.
The first officer Hudson Brough was there replaced due to illness, and during a gale her anchor started to drag, and she drifted against a Dutch brig and a barque the ROXANA, in the collisions was she damaged on her rigging.
05 March 1870 was she back at Montevideo and ready to sail for Callao, Peru to load a cargo of nitrate.
April 1870 she arrived at Callao to load her cargo of nitrate.
13 July 1870 in an overloaded state she sailed from this port.
18 August 1870 after a rough passage from Callao round Cape Horn, bound for Dunkirk she put into Port Stanley in leaking condition and the cargo of nitrate got water damage. She was making hourly 14-inch water in her hold.
Her crew refused to sail out again in this state, and Captain Beaghole did not receive any money from his owners to repair the ship. A survey was carried out, and she was declared unseaworthy.
After waiting 8½ months Captain Beaglehole had not received anything from the owners, and he wrote a power of attorney for Mr. J.M.Dean & Company at the Falkland to deal with all matters on the ship in his name.
He finally left from the Falkland on board the HMS CHARYBDIS on 27 May 1871.

The JHELUM ended her days as a floating warehouse for wool scuttled at the head of Packe’s Jetty, and she is the only surviving example of this type of vessel left in the world today.
Her remains are still there but she is rapidly deteriorating, owned by the Crown Receiver of Wrecks at Port Stanley.

The Falkland Museum & National Trust is trying to raise funds for conservation work without which the hulk cannot be expected to survive for many years.

Falkland Islands 1982 15p sg419, scott?. 2005 55p sg?, scott? 2018 76p sg?, scott?


Source: Log Book. http://college.hmco.com/history/readers ... jhelum.htm
Condemned at Stanley by John Smith.
http://www.falklands.gov.fk/pb/fi/maritime-1.htm
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Re: JHELUM

Post by Rimsha42 » Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:27 am

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Re: JHELUM

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Aug 07, 2017 9:27 pm

The Falkland Islands issued 2017 four stamps for the 50 th Anniversary of the Falkland Island Journal, two stamps of this set depict ships.
The 76p stamp shows us a painting of the wreck of the JHELUM of which the Falkland Post gives the following.

76p stamp. Depicts the cover from the 2013 issue
This issue particularly recognized the contribution to the Journal made by Mike Stammers (1943-2013), former Curator in the maritime history department of Liverpool Museum, and Keeper of the renowned Merseyside Maritime Museum.
His long and distinguished association with the Falkland Islands grew through his interest in the JHELUM, a ship as important to Liverpool’s history as to that of the Falkland Islands, and resulted in a classic study of meticulous scholarship with John Kearon, The JHELUM. A Victorian Merchant Ship. Mike was Deputy Editor of the Journal from 1991 up until his death and made a huge contribution to the expansion in volume and quality of the publication over these years.

The painting of the JHELUM on the front cover of the 2013 issue of the Journal was by the current editor’s late father, Fred McAdam.

Falkland Islands 2017 76p sg?, scott? 2023 80p sg?, Scott? (The stamp is designed after a painting made by Mike Peake.)
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