Channel Island Mailboats and passenger vessels
From Jerripedia
Vessel | Built | Rig and propulsion | Remarks |
Earl of Chesterfield | Pre-1794 | Sailing cutter | 1st PO packet, sold 1806 |
Rover | Pre-1794 | Sailing cutter | 2nd PO packet |
Royal Charlotte | Pre-1794 | Sailing cutter | 1st PO packet, ended service 1795. Lost in a gale near Le Havre, 1823 |
Chesterfield | Sailing cutter | Captured by the French 1811 | |
Chesterfield | Sailing cutter | False packet, ceased in 1814 | |
General Doyle | 1803 | Sailing cutter | Sold in 1809 |
Francis Freeling | 1811 | Sailing cutter | Wrecked in 1826 |
Rapid | Sailing cutter | Armed Scout, relief service | |
Mary | Sailing cutter | Armed Scout, relief service | |
Britannia | Sailing cutter | Armed Scout, relief service | |
Brilliant [1] | Sailing cutter | Armed Scout, relief service | |
Sir Sydney Smith | Sailing cutter | Armed Scout, relief service | |
Sir William Curtis | Sailing cutter | Armed Scout, relief service | |
Hinchinbrook | 1811 | Sailing cutter | Wrecked in 1826 |
Countess of Liverpool | 1813 | Sailing cutter | Sold in 1827 |
Watersprite | Wooden paddle steamer | ||
Ariadne | 1824 | Paddle steamer | |
Lord Beresford | 1824 | Paddle steamer | |
Ivanhoe | 1820 | Wooden paddle steamer | Withdrawn in 1837 |
Meteor | 1821 | Wooden paddle steamer | Wrecked in 1830 |
Bristol | Wooden paddle steamer | Operated to Jersey in 1829 | |
Flamer renamed HMS Fearless | 1831 | Wooden paddle steamer | Withdrawn in 1839 |
HMS Pluto | 1831 | Wooden paddle steamer | 6 months, withdrawn 1838 |
HMS Dasher | 1837 | Wooden paddle steamer | Withdrawn 1845 |
HMS Cuckoo | 1822 | Wooden paddle steamer | Withdrawn 1845 |
Comete | 1841 | Paddle steamer | Broken up 1875 |
South Western | 1843 | Iron paddle steamer | Sold 1863 |
Transit | 1835 | Wooden paddle steamer | Ended as coal hulk 1860 |
Wonder | 1844 | Iron paddle steamer | Sold for scrap 1875 |
Calpe [2] | 1835 | Wooden paddle steamer | Short service |
Lady de Saumarez | 1835 | Wooden paddle steamer | Broken up 1853 |
Atalanta | 1836 | Wooden paddle steamer | Coal hulk 1869 |
Le Cygne | 1850 | Paddle steamer | |
Conqueror | Paddle steamer | ||
Monarch [3] | 1836 | Wooden paddle steamer | Converted to barque 1849 |
Courier | 1847 | Iron paddle steamer | Broken up abt 1874 |
Dispatch | 1847 | Iron paddle steamer | Withdrawn 1888 |
Express | 1847 | Iron paddle steamer | Wrecked 1859 |
Rose | 1851 | Paddle steamer built in Jersey | Wrecked 1864 off Georgetown, Caribbean |
Alliance | 1855 | Iron paddle steamer | Broken up 1900 |
Aquila | 1854 | Iron paddle steamer | Sold 1889 |
Cygnus | 1854 | Iron paddle steamer | Sold 1889 |
Venus | 1854 | Iron paddle steamer | Sold 1862 |
Brighton | 1856 | Iron paddle steamer | Wrecked 1887 |
Great Western I | Pre 1850 | Paddle steamer | |
Southampton | 1860 | Iron paddle steamer | Broken up 1898 |
ps Normandy | 1863 | Iron paddle steamer | Wrecked 1870 |
Brittany I | 1864 | Iron paddle steamer | Broken up 1900 |
Griffin | 1857 | Iron screw steamer | Sold 1895 |
Heather Bell | 1858 | Iron paddle steamer | |
St Malo | 1865 | Iron screw steamer | Broken up 1906 |
Caesarea | 1867 | Iron screw steamer | Wrecked 1884 |
Waverley | 1865 | Iron paddle steamer | Wrecked 1873 |
Havre | 1856 | Iron paddle steamer | Wrecked 1875 |
Alice | 1859 | Iron paddle steamer | Hulk in 1888 |
Fannie | 1859 | Iron paddle steamer | Sold 1887 |
Eclair | 1865 | Iron paddle steamer | Broken up 1888 |
Great Western II | 1867 | Iron paddle steamer | Broken up 1904 |
Honfleur | 1873 | Iron screw steamer | Sold 1900 |
ss Guernsey | 1874 | Iron screw steamer | Wrecked 1915 |
South Western II | 1874 | Iron screw steamer | Torpedoed 1918 |
Diana | 1876 | Iron screw steamer | Wrecked 1895 |
Caledonia | 1876 | Iron screw steamer | Wrecked 1881 |
Ella | 1881 | Iron screw steamer | Sold 1913 |
Hilda | 1882 | Iron screw steamer | Wrecked 1905 |
Laura | 1885 | Steel screw steamer | Sold |
Gael [4] | 1867 | Iron paddle steamer | 6 months service |
Lynx | 1888 | Twin screw steamer | Broken up 1925 |
Antelope | 1889 | Twin screw steamer | Sold 1913 |
Gazelle | 1889 | Twin screw steamer | Converted to cargo 1908 |
Dora | 1889 | Single screw steamer | Sold 1913 |
Frederica | 1890 | Steel twin screw steamer | Sold 1911 |
Lydia | 1890 | Steel twin screw steamer | Sold 1919 |
Stella | 1890 | Steel twin screw steamer | Wrecked 1899 |
Ibex | 1890 | Steel twin screw steamer | Broken up 1927 |
Columbia | 1894 | Twin screw steamer | Sold 1912 |
Alma | 1894 | Twin screw steamer | Sold 1912 |
Victoria | 1896 | Twin screw steamer | Sold 1919 |
Roebuck | 1897 | Twin screw steamer | Lost 1915 |
Reindeer | 1897 | Twin screw steamer | Withdrawn 1925 |
Channel Queen | 1897 | Twin screw steamer | Wrecked 1898 |
Vera | 1898 | Twin screw steamer | Broken up 1933 |
Alberta | 1900 | Twin screw steamer | Sold 1930 |
Great Western III | 1902 | Twin screw steamer | Sold 1933 |
Great Southern | 1902 | Twin screw steamer | Sold 1934 |
Princess Ena | 1906 | Twin screw steamer | Burned out 1935 |
Atalanta II | 1907 | Twin screw steamer | Scuttled at Le Havre, 1940 |
Caesarea | 1910 | Triple screw steamer | Wrecked 1923 |
Sarnia | 1910 | Triple screw steamer | Torpedoed 1918 |
Brittany II | 1910 | Single screw steamer | Renamed Aldershot |
Normannia | 1910 | Twin screw steamer | Lost at Dunkirk 1940 |
Hantonia | 1911 | Twin screw steamer | Broken up 1952 |
Lorina | 1918 | Twin screw steamer | Lost at Dunkirk 1940 |
Ardena | 1915 | Single screw steamer | Sold 1934 |
Dinard | 1924 | Twin screw steamer | Sold 1959 |
St Briac | 1924 | Twin screw steamer | Mined 1942 |
St Helier | 1925 | Twin screw steamer | Broken up 1961 |
St Julien | 1925 | Twin screw steamer | Broken up 1961 |
St Patrick | 1930 | Twin screw steamer | Bombed 1941 |
Isle of Jersey | 1930 | Twin screw steamer | Broken up 1963 |
Isle of Guernsey | 1930 | Twin screw steamer | Broken up 1961 |
Duchesse de Normandie | 1931 | Twin screw steamer | Broken up in 1965 |
Isle of Sark | 1932 | Twin screw steamer | Broken up 1961 |
Brittany III | 1933 | Twin screw steamer | Sold 1963 |
St David | 1947 | Twin screw steamer | Sold 1971 |
St Patrick | 1947 | Twin screw steamer | Transferred Southampton-St Malo |
Falaise | 1947 | Twin screw steamer | Converted to car ferry 1964 |
Normannia | 1952 | Twin screw steamer | Converted to car ferry 1964 |
Caesarea | 1960 | Twin screw steamer | 322 feet long |
Sarnia | 1960 | Twin screw steamer | Cost £1.5 million |
Earl William | 1964 | Twin screw oil engines | |
Earl Granville | 1973 | Twin screw oil engines | |
Havelet | 1977 | Twin screw oil engines |
Notes and references
- ↑ The Brilliant, a government scout, was one of the early vessels to carry mail between the Channel Islands and England. In January 1814, when the Brilliant was under the command of Captain Court, on a voyage from Guernsey to Southampton, she was captured by the American privateer Prince De Neufchatel, of 325 tons, twenty guns and 180 crew. A prize crew were put on board the Brilliant and she was headed for France, but mistook Alderney for the French port of La Hocque, entered the harbour and was promptly recaptured
- ↑ Calpe, a 131-ton wooden paddle steamer was built at Rotherhithe for the British and Foreign Steam Navigation Company and launched in 1835. She went into service on routes from London to Spain and the Western Mediterranean. Her only early connection with the Channel Islands was a 1936 call in Guernsey when her coal ran out. In the late 1830s and early in the next decade she operated on a number of routes across the English Channel for the Commercial Steam Packet Company and in 1845 she followed the Wonder on the Southampton-Jersey mail service. She made very few trips to the islands and was sold in 1849 and converted to a sailing ship, before going ashore near Tangiers in 1852 and being broken up.
- ↑ A newcomer to the Southampton-Jersey mail service on 9 June 1847 was the Monarch, under the command of Captain Lewis. Built by Rubie and Baker of Northam in 1836, a paddle steamer of 360 gross tons, 140 feet long, 23 feet beam, her paddles being driven by engines developing 120 hp, Monarch carried the mails for a few months only, being transferred in November to cargo. She was later converted to a barque and sailed to New Zealand. This is one of the few ships to operate passenger services to the Channel Island of which no photograph or drawing appears to have survived
- ↑ The Gael was a paddle steamer which ran for only six months from Weymouth to the Channel Islands. Gael was built by Robertson and Company of Greenock in 1867, of 347 tons, 211 feet long, and 23 feet beam. She had two funnels and two masts