Saturday, 13 September 2008

Ships The Westminster and Claudine ashore near Margate

A rather nice old print from 1841 although it’s quite a common print the hand colouring on this one is better than most.
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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 13, 2008 10:59 pm

    Chinese ships are pretty.

    I agree with Labour Party MP Steve Ladyman "The China Gateway is needed for jobs and will go ahead come what may"

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  2. A J OvendenSeptember 14, 2008 9:41 pm

    Annon they not Chinese ships, they belonged to the English East India Company. Both the Westminster and Claudine ran aground in Walpole Bay.They were repaired and refloated and continued service for the EEIC.
    They were not classed as shipwrecks and the event does not appear in Lloyds lists.
    One thing for sure is that they are fine prints.

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  3. Michael ChildSeptember 15, 2008 11:38 am

    Thanks Tony I hadn’t a clue what had happened, is there an account of it in any of the old lifeboat books? From experience of sailing of our coast, I would say that someone with local knowledge made the best of being trapped in a storm against the coast and chose Walpole bay as a better solution than most.

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  4. A J OvendenSeptember 16, 2008 7:20 pm

    Michael, there is an account in a back issue of one of the Margate historical society mags, I will look it up.

    Also, Richard Larnes Shipwreck index of the British Isles volume 2 list all wrecks in our area including Lloyds list numbers for individual shipwrecks.

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  5. A J OvendenSeptember 16, 2008 8:07 pm

    Michael, found the article the Westminster and Claudine ran aground on November 22nd 1840, I will scan & email you the article.

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  6. Michael ChildSeptember 17, 2008 10:12 am

    Thanks Tony much appreciated

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  7. AB HerdmanMarch 24, 2013 4:27 am

    Which of these two ships is the Westminster?

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  8. AnonymousJune 06, 2013 11:59 am

    THANK YOU MICHAEL

    FROM Claudine Fourie-Grosvenor

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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.

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