British steamship PACIFICA [1887] - See: SILESIA (1869)
Hamburg bark PALMERSTON [1865] - See: CHARITY (1853)
PARSEE (1851)
The British ship PARSEE was built at St. John, New Brunswick, in 1851. 1060/1170 tons; 172 x 32.4 x 22.5 feet (length x beam x depth of hold). She appears in the annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1852/53-1864/65:
Master:
1852/53-1855/56 - J. Akritt
1856/57-1860/61 - E. Thomas
1861/62-1864/65 - E. Johns
Owner:
1852/53-1855/56 - Carter & C.
1856/57-1860/61 - Temperly
1861/62-1864/65 - P. Rawle
Port of Registry:
1852/53-1860/61 - London
1861/62-1864/65 - Plymouth
Port of Survey:
1852/53 - Liverpool
1853/54-1855/56 - London
1856/57 - Liverpool
1857/58-1860/61 - London
1861/62-1864/65 - Liverpool
Destined Voyage:
1852/53 - New York
1853/54-1855/56 - Australia
1856/57 - [not given]
1857/58-1860/61 - Australia
1861/62-1864/65 - Quebec
The entry for the PARSEE in Lloyd's Register for 1864/65 is posted "wrecked".
[20 Dec 1997]
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PARTHIA (1870) Photograph of the PARTHIA. Source: Michael J. Anuta, Ships of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983), p. 247, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem. To request a larger copy of this scan, click on the picture. |
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The steamship PARTHIA, the first steamship of this name owned by the Cunard Line, was built for the company by Wm Denny & Bros, Dumbarton, and was launched on 10 September 1870. 3,167 tons; 109,87 x 12,31 meters / 360.5 x 40.4 feet (length x breadth); straight stem, 1 funnel, 3 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, 2-cylinder compound engine, service speed 12 knots; accommodation for 150 passengers in 1st class and 1,031 in steerage.
17 December 1870, maiden voyage, Liverpool - Queenstown - New York. 14 November 1883, last voyage, Liverpool - Queenstown - Boston. 1884, acquired by John Elder & Co in part payment for the UMBRIA and ETRURIA. 1885, triple-expansion engines. 1887-1891, ran on the Pacific for Canadian Pacific. 1891, VICTORIA (Northern Pacific). 1898, to North American Mail (United States). 1901, to Northern Pacific. 1904, to North Western Commercial. 1908, to Alaska Steamship Co. 1941, passenger accommodation removed. 23 August 1952, laid up after 80 years of service. 1954, sold to Straits Towing Co, Vancouver, for conversion to a barge. 1955, renamed STRAITS No. 27. 1956, STRAITS MARU; scrapped in Japan
Source: Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 1 (1975), p. 151.
[31 Oct 1999]
PATRIA (1852)
The Bremen bark PATRIA was built at Vegesack/Fähr by Hermann Friedrich Ulrichs, for the Bremen firm of B. Grovermann & Co, and was launched on 3 April 1852. 180 Commerzlasten; 35,7 x 7,4 x 5,1 meters (length x beam x depth of hold). She sailed regularly between Bremen and New York until 1856, when she was sold to August Heinrich Brauss, of Hamburg. On the evening of 7 October 1858, bound from Copenhagen to Dundee, in ballast, C. N. C. Nancke, master, she was stranded at the western entrance to Lyngor, Norway, and was lost; the crew was saved.
Source: Peter-Michael Pawlik, Von der Weser in die Welt; Die Geschichte der Segelschiffe von Weser und Lesum und ihrer Bauwerften 1770 bis 1893, Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums, Bd. 33 (Hamburg: Kabel, c1993), p. 276, no. 31.
[22 Mar 1998]
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PATRICIA (1899) [Right] Photograph of the PATRICIA after transporting troops, in the habor of Tsingtau. Source: Otto J. Seiler, Ostasienfahrt; Linienschiffahrt der Hapag-Lloyd AG im Wandel der Zeiten (Herford: E. S. Mittler, 1988), p. 46. To request a larger copy of this scan, click on the picture. |
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[Left]Photograph of steerage passengers on board the PATRICIA. Source: William H. Miller, Jr., The First Great Ocean Liners in Photographs; 193 Views, 1897-1927 (New York: Dover, 1984), p. 40, from the Byron Collection, Museum of the City of New York. To request a larger copy of this scan, click on the picture. |
[Right]Photograph of passengers boarding the PATRICIA from a Holland America Line tender. Source: William H. Miller, Jr., The First Great Ocean Liners in Photographs; 193 Views, 1897-1927 (New York: Dover, 1984), p. 40, from the Byron Collection, Museum of the City of New York. To request a larger copy of this scan, click on the picture. |
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The steamship PATRICIA was built for the Hamburg-America Line by AG Vulcan, Stettin (yard #241), and was launched on 20 February 1899. 13,023 tons; 170,8 (178,3) x 18,9 meters (length x beam); 1 funnel, 4 masts; twin-screw propulsion, quadruple-expansion engines, service speed 13 knots; accommodation for 162 passengers in 1st class, 184 in 2nd class, and 2,143 in steerage; crew of 249.
7 May 1899, maiden voyage, Hamburg-New York. 1900, registered tonnage 13,424. 2 January 1910, collided with and sank the fireship ELBE V; refitted; 14,472 tons; accommodation for 428 passengers in 2nd class and 2,143 in steerage. 27 November 1913, last voyage, Hamburg-New York. 12 January 1914, chartered by the German government as a transport to Tsingtao. 22 March 1919, surrendered to the U.S. government; used as a navy transport. 1920, transferred to the British Shipping Controller, and operated by the Ellerman Lines, Liverpool. 1921, scrapped at Blyth.
Sources: Arnold Kludas and Herbert Bischoff, Die Schiffe der Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Bd. 1: 1847-1906 (Herford: Koehler, 1979), pp. 62-63 (photograph); Arnold Kludas, Die großen Passagierschiffe der Welt; Eine Dokumentation, Band I: 1858-1912 (2nd ed.; Oldenburg/Hamburg: Gerhard Stalling, c1972), pp. 34-35 (photograph); Nigel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 1 (1975), p. 405. Also pictured in William H. Miller, Jr., The First Great Ocean Liners in Photographs; 193 Views, 1897-1927 (New York: Dover Publications, 1984), pp. 40-41.
[06 Jun 1999]
PATRICK HENRY (1839)
The U.S. ship PATRICK HENRY was built at New York by Brown & Bell in 1839, and registered at New York on 6 November 1839. 880/905 tons (old/new measurement); 159 ft x 34 ft 10 in x 21 ft 10 in (length x beam x depth of hold); 2 decks; draft 18 ft. Ownership (1851): Henry Grinnell (3/16), Moses H. Grinnell and Robert B. Minturn (8/16), Capt. Sheldon G. Hubbard (1/16), Capt. Joseph Rogers (2/16), Capt. Joseph C. Delano (2/16).
The PATRICK HENRY sailed in Grinnell, Minturn & Co's Blue Swallowtail Line of sailing packets between New York and Liverpool from 1839 until 1852, during which period her westward passages averaged 34 days, her shortest passage being 22 days, her longest 46 days. In 1852, she was transferred to Grinnell, Minturn & Co's Red Swallowtail Line of sailing packets between New York and London, in which she sailed until she was sold British in 1864; during this time her westbound passages averaged 32 days, her shortest passage being 26 days, her longest 41 days [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. 278--279, 282-283, 299, 314; 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. 546].
Although apparently originally sold to Londonderry interests in 1864, the PATRICK HENRY first appears in the supplement to the annual volume of LLoyd's Register of Shipping for 1868/69 as registered at Cork. Measurements, according to Lloyd's Register: 837/854/773 tons (net/gross/under deck); 159.3 x 35.8 x 21.6 ft; forecastle 21 ft, poop 41 ft. Although originally rigged as a ship, she was re-rigged as a bark in 1869/70.
Master:
1868/69-1876/77 - A. Herbert
1876/77-1881/82 - T. E. Sargent
Owner:
1868/69-1875/76 - Pim & Co
1876/77-1881/82 - J. E. Pim
Port of Registry:
1868/69-1881/82 - Cork
Port of Survey:
1868/69-1881/82 - Cork
Destined Voyage (-1873/74):
1868/69 - Quebec
1869/70 - Quebec [crossed out]
1870/71 - [not given]
1871/72-1873/74 - Quebec
The PATRICK HENRY is still listed in the 1881/82 volume of Lloyd's Register, the latest to which I have access, although her rating had by that time expired, and she had last been surveyed in March 1877. I know nothing of her later history or ultimate fate.
Voyages:
July 2, lat 49 15, lon 23 16, exchanged signals with ship Samuel Hicks, Bunker, hence, for Liverpool; 7th, lat 44 03, lon 39 15, passed Br[itish] bark Emigrant of Cork bound East; 14th, lat 42 20, lon 54 40, passed a ship steering West with a cross in her foretopsail.The master of the PATRICK HENRY on this passage was Joseph Clement Delano (1796-1886), born in New Bedford, whose paternal uncle was great grandfather of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He began his packet service in the London Red Swallowtail Line, as master of the COLUMBIA, in 1826; in 1830, he established westbound speed record of 15 days, 18 hours from Portsmouth to Sandy Hook, a record that stood for 16 years. In 1833, he transferred to the Liverpool Blue Swallowtail Line, first as master of the ROSCOE, and from 1839 of the PATRICK HENRY; he retired from the sea in about 1848 (although he commanded the PATRICK HENRY on one passage in 1849), and returned to New Bedford, where he had in 1847 become one of the original directors of Wamsutta Mills, first cotton mills established at New Bedford by Joseph Grinnell. He later became president of the New Bedford Port Society. He was a favorite with the passengers (seasoned travelers often chose the vessel on which they sailed by the name of the master), distinguished for his urbanity as well as for fast passages [Albion, op. cit., pp. 162-163, 334].
[17 Dec 1998]