LONDON paddle steamer 1853

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LONDON paddle steamer 1853

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:04 pm

The 22p value of the Jersey stamp issued depict the paddlesteamer LONDON according the Stanley Gibbons; Collect Ships on Stamps.
In Log Book Mr. Hogan has a paddlesteamer LONDON built in 1853, the Enzyklopädie der Maritimen Philatelie (Navicula), gives first that she is a coastal paddlesteamer by entering Naples, but gives than the details of the screw steamer London built in 1856 by Gourlay Bros (not Gowlay).

The title of the painting is; Paddlesteamer entering Naples.


I believe Mr. Hogan is right, that she is the paddlesteamer built in 1853, there was a other paddlesteamer LONDON built in 1837, but she never was used from Jersey, and she was later sold to Australia.
I believe the LONDON never has been to Naples, but it is more a fantasy background painted by the painter.

LONDON: Iron paddle steamer, built by J.W. Hoby at Renfrew, Scotland, a small shipyard, in 1853, for H.Maples. ( Mr. Hogan gives M Maples)
Tonnage 341 gross, 191 net, dim. 200.6 x 19.6 x 10.2ft.
One 126 hp. steam engine.
Registered at London.

In all Lloyds Registers up to 1866 she is shown as a Jersey coaster.
She does no appear in the Lloyd Registry of 1872.

Jersey 1984 22p sg354, scott?

Sources: Log Book Vol. 16 page 229, and information received from Mr. John D. Stevenson.
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