Edwin Fox
.jpg) Inside of the Edwin Fox's hull
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The Edwin Fox is a museum ship owned by the Edwin Fox Maritime Museum in Picton, New Zealand . She is the ninth oldest surviving floating sailing ship and one of the last great sailing ships made of teak . The name of the ship is derived from a well-known Southampton Quaker .
Time as a moving sailing ship
The Edwin Fox was commissioned in 1853 by the renowned East India Company . While it was still being built at a shipyard in Sulkeali ( Kolkata ), the ship became the property of the shipowner George Hodgkinson from Cornhill, London, who sold it to the shipowner Duncan after her first voyage home with tea from India in London for the record price of 30,000 pounds Dunbar auctioned. The latter chartered them out to the British government, which used the ship as a troop transport. Her first trip took 496 soldiers of the 51st French regiment in the Baltic Sea, and later sent the ship for the Crimean War to the Black Sea . After 18 months in the service of the Admiralty that led Edwin Fox three East India travels before it was chartered again by the British government, initially to bring about political prisoners to Fremantle in Australia, later to troops against the Indian Rebellion of 1856/58 before Place to bring. After that the ship spent several years in the worldwide tramp shipping . In 1861, at the request of India , the Edwin Fox unloaded a cargo that had just been taken over in Bombay in order to have shipping space available for fighting the famine in the north-western provinces. In 1862 Duncan Dunbar died and the ship came into the hands of the London shipping company Gellatly & Company, which used it as a tea sailor. During this time she was nicknamed " Teatub " (German: tea tub). Later again she made charter trips with Shaw, Savill & Company with emigrants from England, Ireland and Scotland to Dunedin, Wellington, Nelson and Littleton in New Zealand. On these voyages, the sailor suffered a number of accidents and landings. 1867 takelte the ship to bark at.
Service as the Hulk
When ships of the Edwin Fox design were first replaced by clippers and soon after by steamships , the Edwin Fox in London was equipped with refrigerators and made her last great sea voyage, after which she arrived in Dunedin in June 1885 . Then the freezer hulk were used in Gisborne , Lyttelton , Bluff and Port Chalmers to freeze sheep. It was able to freeze up to 500 sheep per day, the storage life was about 20,000 sheep.
On January 12, 1897, the Edwin Fox was towed into the Queen Charlotte Sound of the Marlborough Sound area on the South Island of New Zealand. An area she never left. There, too, she initially served as a stationary freezer ship in the years to come, until the Picton Freezing Works were built around 1900 and took over the task of the ship. It was dragged to another place and used as a landing stage before it was used as a coal hulk for the packing station opposite.
Rescue and restoration
In 1965 the badly dilapidated ship was offered to local businessmen to be restored. Norman Brayshaw then founded the Edwin Fox Restoration Society in May of that year, which took over the ship for a New Zealand shilling . Due to the lack of permission from the Picton Council to move the ship into Picton harbor, it was aground in Shakespeare Bay after several hauls within the area. The Hulk spent another twenty years there, during which, not least because of the teak construction, more and more parts of the ship were destroyed or stolen.
It was not until October 1986 that a new council granted permission to salvage the ship and assigned a permanent berth. By the end of the year the ship was cleared of debris, floated again and towed to Picton on December 4th. In the 1990s, they began to build a specially for the Edwin Fox certain dry docks in Cook Strait Ferry Landing in which the Hulk was floated on 18 May 1999 to restore it there. For this purpose, a permanent roof was built over the area in 2001. The ship has been on the register of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust since 1999 .
Picture gallery
Edwin Fox Maritime Museum in Picton.
Bow , with copper remains.
Inside of the Edwin Fox's hull
Lower deck of the Edwin Fox , the upper deck has not been preserved.
Heck , with copper remains.
literature
- Otmar Schäuffelen: The last great sailing ships . Verlag Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-7688-0860-2 , p. 206/207 .
Web links
- www.edwinfoxsociety.com Website of the Edwin Fox Society
- The 149 year Illustrated Log of the Edwin Fox . In: New Zealand Maritime Record . NZ National Maritime Museum, 2007,accessed September 22, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ^ "The Edwin Fox, Picton, New Zealand" BBC, H2G2, September 8, 2006
- ^ Edwin Fox Hull and Anchor Windlass. Historic Place Category 1. In: New Zealand Heritage List / Rārangi Kōrero . Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga , December 9, 1999, accessed September 23, 2019 .
Coordinates: 41 ° 17 ′ 12.7 ″ S , 174 ° 0 ′ 20.8 ″ E