PRECIOSA (1840)
LEONTINE [1860]
ESPÉRANCE [1866]
The Danish bark PRECIOSA was built at Apenrade, Schleswig, by the shipwright Paulsen in 1840.
On 2 May 1860, the PRECIOSA was purchased from Kiser, of Apenrade, by Lorenz Gottlieb Göde, of Hamburg, who renamed her LEONTINE. Measurements (Hamburg): 104 Commerzlasten; 101,2 x 25,6 x 15,9 Hamburg Füße (1 Hamburg Fuß = .28657 meter), length x beam x depth of hold, zwischen den Steven.
Masters:
1860-1862 - the owner
1862-1866 - C. W. Bremer
Voyages:
1860-1862 - Singapore/Hong Kong/Whampoa/intermediate ports/Shanghai/Futschou
1862-1866 - Dona Francisca/inter mediate ports ...
Göde sold the LEONTINE in 1866 to Remmers, of Emden, who renamed her ESPÉRANCE. I have no information on her later history or ultimate fate.
Source: Walter Kresse, ed., Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien, 1824-1888, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum füur Hamburgische Geschichte, N. F., Bd. 5 (Hamburg: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969), vol. 1, p. 176.
Voyages:
[07 Mar 1999]
PRIDE OF WALES (1865)
The British ship PRIDE OF WALES (Official No. 52,451; International Signal Code: HSVG) was built under Lloyd's Register of Shipping Special Survey at Quebec by Labbee, and launched in May 1865. 906 (1866/67: 885)/898/788 tons (gross/net/under deck); 194.7 x 33 x 19.9 feet (length x breadth x depth of hold). Forecastle 35 feet long. The annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1865/66-1881/82 contain the following additional information:
Master:
1865/66 - T. Parry
1866/67 - Corrigall
1867/68-1868/69 - D. Moore
1868/69-1870/71 - Power
1870/71-1874/75 - E. Bolt
1874/75-1876/77 - F. Richardson
1876/77-1879/80 - R. Jones
1879/80-1881/82 - White
Owner:
1865/66 - P. Labbee
1865/66-1866/67 - D. Jones
1866/67-1873/74 - Hill & Sons
1873/74-1876/77 - A. Ramage & Co
1876/77-1881/82 - P. Sutherland, Jr., & Co
Port of Registry:
1865/66-1866/67 - London
1866/67-1873/74 - Cardiff
1873/74-1881/82 - Liverpool
Port of Survey:
1865/66 - Quebec;
1865/66-1866/67 - Swansea
1866/67 - Bristol [lined out]
1866/67-1868/69 - London
1868/69-1870/71 - Bristol
1870/71-1871/72 - Hartlepool
1871/72-1873/74 - Cardiff
1873/74-1874/75 - Bristol
1875/76-1878/79 - London
1879/80-1881/82 - Liverpool
Destined Voyage:
1865/66 - Swansea
1865/66-1866/67 - New Orleans
1866/67 - North America [lined out]
1866/67-1868/69 - Kurrache
1868/69-1873/74 - South America
Lloyd's Register for 1881/82 is posted "burnt.
[20 Jan 1998]
PRINCE ALBERT (1843)
The U.S. ship PRINCE ALBERT was built at New York by Jacob A. Westervelt & William Mackey in 1843, for Grinnell, Minturn & Co's Red Swallowtail Line of sailing packets between New York and London. 884 tons; 158 feet 3 inches x 35 feet x 21 feet 9 inches (length x beam x depth of hold). She sailed in the Red Swallowtail Line until she was abandoned at sea on 4 January 1854 (see below); her westward passages from London to New York averaged 35 days, her shortest passage being 24 days, her longest 57 days. The following is an account of the loss of the PRINCE ALBERT, taken from the New York Tribune for 1 February 1854, p. 5d:
By the arrival of the steamship ASIA [Cunard Line, Capt. Scott, from Liverpool 14 January, arrived New York 31 January] we learn that the packet ship Prince Albert, Capt. [William King] Bradish, which sailed from this port December 6 [1853] for London, was fallen in with on the 4th of January [1854], in latitude 48 [degrees], longitude 15 [degrees], by the English bark Norfolk from Madras, the Prince Albert being in a disabled and almost sinking condition. The Captain of the Norfolk at once took off the passengers and crew of the Prince Albert, and on the 11th of the same month landed them safely at Queenstown, Cork, Ireland. The Prince Albert had sixteen passengers, whose names we give:
The names of the crew we have not been able to obtain; but as they were all saved, the omission is immaterial. The Prince Albert was built in this City, nine years ago, and was at this time a splendid and favorite ship of nearly 900 tuns, elegantly fitted up for passengers. The ship was valued at about $50,000 (at the present time,) and was fully insured, mainly in New-York. The cargo on board at the time of leaving port consisted of 3,500 barrels of Flour, 12,289 bushels of Wheat, 611 tierces [a cask intermediate in size between a barrel and a hogshead] of Beef, 646 boxes of Cheese, 900 barrels of Oil Cake, 300 barrels of Resin, 10 half tierces of Tobacco, 537 bundles of Whalebone, 53 tierces of Clover Seed, 50 boxes of Clocks, besides small parcels of considerable value. We believe this property was pretty fully insured, but have not been able to learn the precise amount.Eliza Clarke E. Fisher Conrad Whitson Henry Stolemeyer Andrew Sharot Mary Alden John Easton James Beattie Abraham Brittain Joseph Vermillier Wm. Fills Wm. Chippenfield George Black Mrs. Geo. Black Mrs. Dennis John Hermitage
The loss of the PRINCE ALBERT does not appear to have adversely affected the career of her master, who had been first mate of the vessel in the early 1840's, before taking command of the packets INDEPENDENCE (Liverpool Blue Swallowtail, later London Red Swallowtail) and YORKTOWN (London Red Swallowtail): in 1854, he took command of the London Red Swallowtail packet ASHBURTON, which he commanded until approximately 1862. He is most probably the William K. Bradish whose will was proved at Brooklyn 7 January 1868.
Source: Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Square-riggers on Schedule; The New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938), pp. 91, 282-283, 332.
[02 Mar 1998]
PRINCE ALFRED (1852)
The British ship PRINCE ALFRED (Official No. 15,660; International Signal Code: LTFW), was built at Sunderland in 1852. Tonnage: 826/931 (old/new measurement); (1863) 815 tons. Measurements (1863); 160 x 32.5 x 21.5 ft (readmeasured in 1866: 160.5 x 32.7 x 21.9 ft), length x beam x depth of hold. The annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1853/54-1877/78 give the following information for the PRINCE ALFRED:
Master:
1853/54-1854/55 - P. Smith
1855/56-1858/59 - W. Bauman
1859/60-1860/61 - Treatt
1861/62-1862/63 - G. Harper
1862/63-1865/66 - J. Splatt
1865/66-1869/70 - G. Thirkell
1869/70-1877/78 - S. Bacon
Owner:
1853/54-1854/55 - Pope, Bros.
1855/56-1865/66 - Thornton & Wests
1865/66-1866/67 - Lonie & Co.
1866/67-1869/70 - Mills & Co.
1869/70-1877/78 - (Mrs.) A. Beer
Port of Registry:
1853/54-1854/55 - Plymouth
1855/56-1869/70 - London
1869/70-1870/71 - Poole
1870/71-1877/78 - London
Port of Survey:
1853/54-1865/66 - London
1865/66-1867/68 - Sunderland
1867/68-1870/71 - London
1870/71-1877/78 - Bristol
Destined Voyage (until 1873/74):
1853/54-1854/55 - Australia
1855/56-1860/61 - [not given]
1861/62-1862/63 - China
1862/63-1870/71 - India
1871/72-1873/74 - [not given]
The PRINCE ALFRED last appears in Lloyd's Register for 1877/78; however, she was last surveyed in December 1870, and it is possible that she was lost or sold foreign some years before 1877.
[27 May 1999]
PRINCE DE JOINVILLE (1845)
The U.S. ship PRINCE DE JOINVILLE, 527 tons, was built at New York in 1845, and registered at New York on 9 June 1845 [Forrest R. Holdcamper, comp., List of American-flag Merchant Vessels that received Certificates of Enrollment or Registry at the Port of New York, 1789-1867 (Record Groups 41 and 36 ), National Archives Publication 68-10, Special Lists 22 (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Service, 1968), p. 571]. She was named after François Ferdinand Philippe d'Orleans, prince de Joinville (1818-1900), a son of king Louis Philippe of France, and an officer in the French navy, who had visited the United States several times in the early 1840's as captain of a French warship, and who became famous in 1844 for his bombardment of Tangiers and his occupation of Mogador, Morocco. She is not to be confused with the brig PRINCE DE JOINVILLE, of Newport, Rhode Island, Gardner, master, that arrived at New York on 30 December 1847, 16 days from Havana (passenger list, dated 3 January 1848, in National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, roll 70, list #1 for 1848) and cleared for Havana on 26 January 1848, and which, French, master, arrived at San Francisco on 19 August 1852, 46 days from Realejo, with 3 passengers.
| 1845 - | Lawrence, master, advertised as sailing in the Boyd & Hincken Line of New York-Marseilles packets [Carl C. Cutler, Queens of the Western Ocean; The Story of America's Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, c1961), p. 400]. |
| 22 Sep 1845 - | Lawrence, master, arrived at New York, from Marseilles 14 August, passed Gibraltar 25 August. Passenger list in National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, roll 60, list #800 for 1845. |
| 08 Sep 1846 - | Lawrence, master, arrived at New York, from Marseilles, and 45 days from Gibraltar. Passenger list, dated 9 September, in National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, roll 64, list #811 for 1846. She cleared for Marseilles 3 October 1846. |
| 1847 - | Lawrence, master, advertised as sailing in the Chamberlain & Phelps Line of New York-Liverpool packets (vessels cleared Liverpool in the Black Star Line [Cutler, p. 384]. |
| 27 Jun 1847 - | Lawrence, master, arrived at New York, from Belfast 29 May 1847, in ballast, with 202 steerage passengers. Passenger listed, dated 29 June 1847, in National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, roll 68, list #460 for 1847. She cleared for Liverpool 1 August 1847. |
| 24 Oct 1847 - | Lawrence, master, arrived at New York, 23 days from Liverpool, with merchandise, 2 cabin and 117 steerage passengers. Passenger list, dated 26 October 1847, in National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, roll 69, list #850 for 1847. She cleared for Trieste on 14 November 1847. |
| 01 Apr 1849 - | Sherman, master, arrived at New York, from Canton 8 December 1848. Passenger list, dated 2 April 1849, in National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, roll 78, list #242A for 1849. |
| 1851 - | Adams, master, advertised as sailing in the Eagle Line of New York-New Orleans packets [Cutler, p. 518]. |
| 12 Aug 1852 - | [Thomas] Conway, master, arrived San Francisco, cleared from New York 3 January 1852. She began to leak seriously during the voyage, and on or before 3 March 1852, called in at Rio de Janeiro to make repairs; she remained in Rio de Janeiro until between 13 and 18 April, when she resumed her voyage to California, with 37 of the passengers from the ship RACEHOUND. She cleared for Rio de Janeiro on 27 October 1852, and sailed on 30 October [New York Tribune, 12 April 1852, p. 8d; 24 May 1852, p. 8d; 2 June 1852, p. 8c; Daily Alta California, 28 October 1852; 31 October 1852]. |
| 26 Aug 1854 - | E. Chamberbin [sic], master, arrived Melbourne, from New York 1 May 1854, with passengers, brandy, and tobacco. Cleared Melbourne for Callao, in ballast, 4 October 1854, and sailed on 10 October [Marten A. Syme, Shipping arrivals and departures; Victorian ports, vol. 2: 1846-1855, Roebuck Society Publication No. 39 (Melbourne: [Roebuck Society], 1987), p. 269]. |
| 1856 - | William Chamberl[a]in, master, advertised as sailing in the Old Line of New York-Glasgow packets [Cutler, p. 393]. |
This is the latest reference I have found to the PRINCE DE JOINVILLE.
[18 Apr 1999]
British hospital steamship PRINCESS OF WALES [1899] - See: GENERAL WERDER (1874)
Siamese bark PRINCESS SERAPHI [....] - See: ORESTES (1853)
Norwegian ship PRINS ALBERT [1855] - See: ALBERT (1841)
PROPELLER (1855)
ROLAND [1861, 1865]
HERO [1864-1865]
The British steamship PROPELLER (Official No. 5,505) was built at [South] Shields by [T. D.] Marshall in 1855. 659/457 tons (gross/exclusive of engine room); 184 x 27.8 x 16.5 feet (length x breadth x depth of hold); iron construction, screw propulsion. Although she does not appear in Lloyd's Register of Shipping, the Returns of Registered Steam Vessels of the United Kingdom published in the Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, lists her on 1 January 1857 as registered at London to W. S. Andrews; on 1 January 1858, to the North of Europe Steam Navigation Society; on 1 January 1859, to J. O. Lever; and on 1 January 1860, to R. Ford.
According to Walter Kresse, ed., Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien, 1824-1888, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, N. F., Bd. 5. (Hamburg: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969), vol. 2, pp. 100-101, the PROPELLER was purchased on 26 February 1861 from Lever, London, by the Hamburg firm of H. J. Perlbach & Co, who renamed her ROLAND. (Since the PROPELLER does not appear in the Return of Registered Steam Vessels of the United Kingdom for 1 January 1861, it is possible that the purchase took place in 1860, rather than 1861.) Measurements in Hamburg: 187 Commerzlasten / 617 BRT, 57,88 x 8,9 x 4,96 meters (length x breadth x depth of hold). Kresse, loc.cit., gives the following information on the career of the ROLAND ex PROPELLER from 1861 to 1888:
Master:
1861-1863 - J. Pahl
1863-1873 - J. C. Paulsen
1865 - J. H. Plett
1865, 1872 - C. Witt
1872 - A. Krulle
1872 - H. Blanck
1873-1875 - J. E. Krabbo
1875-1876 - P. C. Lassen
1877 - L. Schmidt
1877-1878 - O. A. Schaumburg
1878-1884 - C. E. Sohst
1884 - H. Borgwardt
1884-1885 - H. Blanck
1885-1888 - J. Tiemann
1888- - J. Michelsen
Voyages:
1861 - Hull (19 x), Dunkirk
1862-1864 - Hull (46 x)
[1864, during the Austro-Prussian war against Denmark, registered British, as the HERO, to Lawson, Hull;
1865 re-registered Hamburg, to Perlbach]
1865 - Hull (10 x), Havre/Bordeaux (5 x), Antwerp (3 x)
1866 - Hull (2 x), Antwerp (14 x), Havre (2 x), Rotterdam (2 x)
1867 - Hull (23 x)
1868 - Hull (22 x), Havre
1869 - Hull (22 x), Rotterdam (2 x), Antwerp (2 x)
1870 - Antwerp (4 x), Havre (6 x), Hull
1871 - Havre (18 x), Antwerp, Hartlepool
1872 - Havre (15 x), Antwerp, Rotterdam
1873 - Hull (4 x), Havre (2 x)
1874 - Havre (15 x), Rotterdam (6 x), Antwerp (2 x)
1875 - Rotterdam/Havre (8 x), Havre (2 x), Antwerp (3 x), Antwerp/Rotterdam (2 x), Antwerp/Bordeaux
1876 - Antwerp (14 x), Antwerp/Bordeaux, Rotterdam (2 x), Rotterdam/Havre, Havre (3 x)
1877 - Antwerp (8 x), Antwerp/Bordeaux (5 x), Rotterdam (4 x), Havre, Dunkirk/Havre
1878 - Rotterdam (2 x), Antwerp (14 x), Antwerp/Hull, London (3 x), Hartlepool, Königsberg/Havre, Hull
1879 - Antwerp (23 x)
1880 - Antwerp (16 x), Hull, Riga
1881 - Amsterdam (4 x), Rotterdam, Antwerp (13 x), Antwerp/Amsterdam, Bilbao/Rotterdam (2 x), Hartlepool
1882 - Antwerp (18 x), Antwerp/Amsterdam, Antwerp/Hull, Amsterdam (5 x), Hull, Rotterdam
1883 - Antwerp (22 x), Rotterdam (5 x)
1884 - Rotterdam (11 x), Harwich (20 x)
1885 - Harwich (30 x), Antwerp (9 x)
1886 - Harwich, Antwerp (21 x)
1887 - Antwerp (16 x), Antwerp/Harwich, Harwich (2 x)
1888 - Antwerp (8 x), London (31 x)
Perlbach & Co ceased operations in 1899, and the ROLAND was taken over by the Hamburg firm of A. Kirsten, which still [2001] exists as A. Kirsten GmbH & Co. KG, Schiffsmakler.
For the history of the ROLAND ex PROPELLER after 1888, see Walter Kresse, ed., Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien, 1889-1914, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, N. F., Bd. 10 (Hamburg: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1974). Kresse also refers to a work on the Kirsten firm, Maria Möhring, A. Kirsten, but I have been unable to find any bibliographical details, and suspect it may be a privately printed corporate history available only through the firm.
Sources: Return of Registered Steam Vessels of the United Kingdom, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, 1857 Session 2 (87) xxxix.71, no. 341; 1857-58 (488), lii.91, no. 316; 1859 Session 2 (26) xxvii.500, no. 280; 1860 (449) lx.452, no. 261; Walter Kresse, ed., Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien, 1824-1888, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, N. F., Bd. 5. (Hamburg: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969), vol. 2, pp. 100-101.
[23 Jan 2001]
Italian steamship PROVINCIA DI SAO PAULO [1888] - See: WESTPHALIA (1868)