DOM FERNANDO II E GLORIA frigate 1843
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:59 am
Built as a teak hulled frigate in 1843 at Damao at Portuguese India for the Portuguese Navy.
Construction commenced in 1832 by the shipwrights the Midshipman Gil Jose da Conceicao and a Moor called Jado Semagi, the first shipwright known in that place.
22 November 1843 launched as the DOM FERNANDO II E GLORIA, named after the King and Queen of Portugal.
Displacement 1850 tons, dim. 48.77 x 12.80 x 6.10m (draught)
Armed with 50 guns, 28 on the battery deck and 22 on the upper deck.
Crew 273 including 68 men of the naval battalion.
02 February 1845 she made her maiden voyage from Goa to Portugal.
1855 The DOM FERNANDO II E GLORIA became the main ship of an expedition sent from Luanda to Ambriz, both in Luanda and asserted the Portuguese sovereignty there, in spite of the protestations of England who claimed the right to the possession of those territories.
1857 She sailed for India where she received on board several groups of natives to be established in Tete, Portuguese Africa.
On her return from India in 1862, sailing from Mozambique to Lisbon, caught in a storm and lost her main and foremast. Four years later, she transported to Ilha Terceira, Azores emigrants of the Spanish army.
Her last voyage was as training ship for midshipmen to the Archipelago of Madeira and Azores in 1878. On route to San Miguel, she rescued the crew of the American bark LAWRENCE which was in trouble with fire on board, which had started midway on the voyage from Smyrna to Boston.
Having to means to extinguish the fire on board the bark, the DOM FERNANDO II E GLORIA aimed her guns at the American ship which would represent a danger for the navigation and sunk her. From 4 December 1851 to October 1853, the DOM FERNANDO II E GLORIA became the sailor’s headquarters, on 28 November 1865 the school of seamanship, and on the 10th September 1924 the school of the Artillery Brigade.
04 April 1963, having become a social centre for sailors children the frigate DOM FERNANDO II E GLORIA was destroyed by fire and hulked at Alfeite across from Lisbon.
For 27 years she lay there before the Portuguese Navy decided to restore her to her old state.
Since the World Exhibition of 1998 in Lisbon she lies in Lisbon as a floating museum ship.
She is the oldest Portuguese surviving warship.
Macao 1967 20a sg505, scott453
Togo 2015 950F sg?, scott?
Source: Watercraft Philately May-June 1969 page 45.Historic Ships by Norman J. Brouwer.
Construction commenced in 1832 by the shipwrights the Midshipman Gil Jose da Conceicao and a Moor called Jado Semagi, the first shipwright known in that place.
22 November 1843 launched as the DOM FERNANDO II E GLORIA, named after the King and Queen of Portugal.
Displacement 1850 tons, dim. 48.77 x 12.80 x 6.10m (draught)
Armed with 50 guns, 28 on the battery deck and 22 on the upper deck.
Crew 273 including 68 men of the naval battalion.
02 February 1845 she made her maiden voyage from Goa to Portugal.
1855 The DOM FERNANDO II E GLORIA became the main ship of an expedition sent from Luanda to Ambriz, both in Luanda and asserted the Portuguese sovereignty there, in spite of the protestations of England who claimed the right to the possession of those territories.
1857 She sailed for India where she received on board several groups of natives to be established in Tete, Portuguese Africa.
On her return from India in 1862, sailing from Mozambique to Lisbon, caught in a storm and lost her main and foremast. Four years later, she transported to Ilha Terceira, Azores emigrants of the Spanish army.
Her last voyage was as training ship for midshipmen to the Archipelago of Madeira and Azores in 1878. On route to San Miguel, she rescued the crew of the American bark LAWRENCE which was in trouble with fire on board, which had started midway on the voyage from Smyrna to Boston.
Having to means to extinguish the fire on board the bark, the DOM FERNANDO II E GLORIA aimed her guns at the American ship which would represent a danger for the navigation and sunk her. From 4 December 1851 to October 1853, the DOM FERNANDO II E GLORIA became the sailor’s headquarters, on 28 November 1865 the school of seamanship, and on the 10th September 1924 the school of the Artillery Brigade.
04 April 1963, having become a social centre for sailors children the frigate DOM FERNANDO II E GLORIA was destroyed by fire and hulked at Alfeite across from Lisbon.
For 27 years she lay there before the Portuguese Navy decided to restore her to her old state.
Since the World Exhibition of 1998 in Lisbon she lies in Lisbon as a floating museum ship.
She is the oldest Portuguese surviving warship.
Macao 1967 20a sg505, scott453
Togo 2015 950F sg?, scott?
Source: Watercraft Philately May-June 1969 page 45.Historic Ships by Norman J. Brouwer.