JHELUM
Posted: 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
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