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THE BLACKWALL FRIGATES Digitized by Tine Internet Archive BASIL LUBBO THE BLACKWALL FRIGATES Digitized by tine Internet Archive in 2008 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/blackwallfrigatesOOIubb THE BLACKWALL FRIGATES BY BASIL LUBBOCK Author of "The Ch\na Clippers"; "The Colonial Clippers, "Round the Horn before the Mast"; "Jack Derringer, " a Tale of Deep Water" ; and Deep Sea Warriors" WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND PLANS GLASGOW JAMES BROWN S- SON (Glasgow) Ltd., Publishers 52 TO 58 Darnley Street 1922 v/r Dedication Dedicated to the Blackwall Midshipmite. PREFACE The Blackwall frigates form a connecting link between the lordly East Indiaman of the Honourable John Company and the magnificent P. & O. and Orient liners of the present day. They were first-class ships—well-run, happy ships, and the sailor who started his sea life as a midshipman aboard a Blackwaller looked back ever afterwards to his cadet days as the happiest period of his career. If discipline was strict, it was also just. The train- ing was superb, as witness the number of Blackwall midshipmen who reached the head of their profession and distinguished themselves later in other walks of life. Indeed, as a nursery for British seamen, we shall never see the like of these gallant little frigates. The East still calls, yet its glamour was twice as alluring, its vista twice as romantic, in the days of sail; and happy indeed was the boy who first saw the shores of India from the deck of one of Green's or Smith's passenger ships. Fifty years ago, the lithographs of the celebrated Blackwall liners to India and Australia could be bought at any seaport for a few shillings. Nowadays, these old ship portraits are eagerly snapped up by a growing Vll viii PREFACE army of collectors and have become very hard to find and very expensive to buy, I therefore hope that the illustrations in this book will be appreciated. The design plans give an indication of our advance in naval architecture—an advance which is little short of amazing, when one remembers that there are still many men alive who served on these old ships—ships which were more akin to the adventurous keels of Drake and Dampier than to the giant boxes of machinery afloat to-day. My thanks are due to these old seamen, survivors of a by-gone era, for all their help and interest, and if this book is able to bring back a happy memory to a single one of them, my task will not have been in vain. CONTENTS PiOl Introduction ..-....-i PART I.—HISTORY OF THE BLACKWALL YARD. 1611-1836 The Blackwall Yard 24 The Pioneer Ship of the Yard—The Globe - - - - 25 Sir Henry Johnson the Elder - - - - - 23 King's Ships built at Blackwall in the Seventeenth Century - 27 Prince Rupert visits the Blackwall Yard - - - 29 Pepysian Anecdotes - - - - - - -29 "Old Hob" - 30 Johnson the Younger - - - - - - -30 Indiamen of the Eighteenth Century - - - - - 31 Liberality of the East India Company - - -33 John Perry ---...-. 33 The Brunswick Dock and Masthouse - - • - - 34 The Friend of the Family - - • • - - 35 " King George III. drinks with a " True Blus • - - 35 George Green ....-..- 38 Sir Robert Wigram - - - - - - -37 The General Goddard. East Indiaman - - - - 39 The True Brtlon, East Indiaman - - - - - 40 East Indiamen owned by Sir Robert Wigram - - - 42 The Last of John Company's East Indiamen - - - - 44 Henry Green apprenticed as a Shipwright - - - 46 The Cam Brae Castle - - - - - - -46 The Sir Edward Paget, Pioneer Ship of Greens Blackwall Line - 46 The Origin of Green's House-Flag - - - - - 47 The Paget run Man-of-VVar Fashion - - - - - 47 The Shipwrights' Strike on the Thames - - - - 48 PART II —A VOYAGE OUT EAST IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS, - - - - - The Merchant Service - - 49 East India Shipping Notice - - • • • - 50 An India Husband • - • - • -50 The Earl uj Batcarres - - • • - -61 CONTENTS Fast Passages ol East Indiamen 52 Smuggling on an East Indiaman 52 Passage Money and Cabin Furniture 53 The London River in 1830 53 Geordie Brigs . 55 The Betsy Cains . 56 The Brotherly Love .... 57 - . Geordie Characteristics - . 58 Heavy Horsemen, Light Horsemen and River Pirates 59 Shipping in the River ... 60 A Typical East Indiaman . - - 62 The Commander of an East Indiaman and his Emoluments 63 - Officers' Allowances in the H.E.I.C. - . - 65 The Foremast Hands of an Indiaman 66 An Indiaman leaving Gravesend . - - 67 A Farmyard at Sea ....-- 69 Getting underweigh ...--- 70 All in the Downs ------- 71 Sail Dnll 73 Down Channel ------ 78 The Last Sailing Ships in the Royal Navy 78 The Symondites ------- 79 . - - - - Joseph White of Cowes • 80 - Routine aboard an Indiaman - - - - 82 Pirates ..--.--- 84 The Black Joke and Benito de Soto - - - - 85 Madeira -------- 95 Tapping the Admiral ------ 95 Calcutta and the Hooghly River in the Days of John Company 96 St. Helena Festivities ------ 100 PART III.—THE BLACKWALLERS. The Divided Interests of Green and Wigram - 102 Dicky Green ------ - 103 Money Wigram & Sons ... - - 104 Joseph Somes ------ - 104 The Old Java - 106 T. & W. Smith - - - - - - 107 Duncan Dunbar ------ - J09 The Captains of the Blackwall Frigates - no Discipline .----. - 112 Midshipmen . - . • - 113 Crews ...--.• 120 Passengers ...... • 121 CONTENTS xi »!• Ship Races - • - • • . -123 Calcutta and its Shipping - • • - - - 127 - Madras - - - - - - - - 129 The Australian Boom - - - - - - - 130 The Design of the Blackwall Frigates • - - - - 131 Sail and Rigging Plans - - - - - -133 Seaworthiness - - - - - - -133 Speeds of the Blackwallers compared .... 135 Cyclones - - - - - - - -138 I'tffwoM in a Cyclone, 1843 - - - - - - 139 - Afowarc/i in the Calm Centre. 1845 - - - - 140 Fourteen Persons Suffocated aboard the Mar\a Sotnes - - 141 Earl 0/ Hardwicke's Cyclone Log ..... 14^ The Dark Blood-red Cyclone Sky - - - - - 142 Dampier's Hurricane Cloud - - ... 143 Calcutta Cyclone, 1864 - - - - - - - 143 Hotspur and Alnwtck Castle ride out a Cyclone at the Sandheads - 146 St. Lawrence in the Madras Cyclone of 1871 - - - . 143 The Old Sertngapatam - - - - - - -150 The Mystery of the Madagascar ..... 152 " Owen Glendower—" I can call spirits from the vasty deep - 154 Agincourt—A Midshipman's Log ..... 157 Prtnce of Wales and Queen—Armed Merchantmen ... IQO Bucephalus and Ellenborough ---... 160 Gloriana and Tudor ....... 161 The Lordly Monarch ....... \Ql The Alfred—l^ecky's First Ship - - . - - 162 Marlborough's Fast Voyage to Australia .... igy A Race to India in 1853 - - - - - • - 169 The Burning of the Sutlej - ... - 170 The Blenheim in a Cyclone ...... 170 Dress on the Trafalgar - - - - • -172 - The Loss of the Dalhousie • . - - - 173 Origin of Marshall's House-Flag ..... i7g Toynbee's Hotspur .-«-... 177 /in^/esey's famous Figurehead ...... I8O Fast Voyage to Melbourne and back by the Anglesey - - 180 Roxburgh Castle and Will Terns ..... 134 The Northfleet Tragedy - - • - - - 186 The famous Kent ---.-.-- 185 Captain Clayton - - - - - - 191 Rowing a Thousand-ton Ship - ..... jgg Captain Clayton uses Oil in a Cape Horn Gale ... 197 Kent's Narrow Escape from Icebergs . • - - . 200 xii CONTENTS The Wreck of the Dunbar ...... 202 - - Willis' Wonder. The Tweed - - - - 211 Punjaub takes the 10th Hussars to the Crimea • - 215 The Punjaub and Assaye in the Persian War - - - 216 - ' Punjaub in the Indian Mutiny . - . 222 Laying the Indo-European Cable in the Persian Gulf - - 229 Captain Stuart of The Tweed ---... 229 Some Sailing Records of The Tweed - - - . 230 The Sunderland-built Blackwallers - - . 235 The old La Hague ....... 237 The Agamemnon ---.... 237 The Burning of the Eastern Monarch - - - . 238 Alnwick Castle. Clarence and Dover Castle .... 238 Blackwallers in the Coolie Trade - . 239 Newcastle -.-...... 240 Windsor Castle ........ 245 Extracts from the Log of the Windsor Castle ... 246 Dismasting of the Wtyidsot Castle ..... 250 The Ghost of the Norfolk - - - - - .262 The Speedy Suffolk --.-... 264 The Wreck of the Duncan Dunbar ..... 264 Tybtirnia s Pleasure Cruise ...... 264 The old Helmsdale ....... 266 A Cargo of the Lincolnshire ...... 266 The Coolie Ship Ltncelles ...... 267 The Lady Melville and the Great Comet of 1861 ... 267 The Yorkshire's Madman ...... 269 A Tragedy of Sea Sickness ...... 270 A Shark Story - - - - . - - 271 Renown and Malabar ....... 272 Passages to Melbourne I860 (Comparison between London Frigate- built Ships and Liverpool Clipper-built Ships) ... 273 Blackwallers of I86I ....... 274 St. Lawrence ........ 275 Shannon and the Lord Warden ...... 278 An Apprentice's Joke ....... 278 The two Essex's ---..... 279 The Last of the Dunbars ---... 280 Devitt & Moore's Parramatta ...... 281 The Iron Blackwaller Superb ...... 282 A Passenger's Log -.-.... 283 The Salving of the Superb ...... 287 The Carlisle Castle - ...... 288 Macquarie {ex- Melbourne)—The Last of the Blackwallers - . 290 CONTENTS xiii JPAOI APPENDICES. Appendix 1. —The Blackwall Frigates .... 299 II.—Old Station Lists - . - . 304 M in.—Abstract Log of the Hotspur, London to Calcutta, 1863 - - - - - - 310 ,. IV.—Abstract Log of The Tweed, First Passage to Melbourne, 1873 - - - - - 314 „ V.—Abstract Log of Holmsdale, Melbourne to London, 1883 - - - - - - 317 M VI.—Sail Area and Spar Plan of the Clarence - - 324 ILLUSTRATIONS The Commands of Captain Methven—Ships: Mor, Fort William, Marlborough, Valetta, CelesHal, Blenheim, Charles Forbes and Charlotte - - Frontispiece Brunswick Dock and Masthouse - - -To face page 34 George Green ----- . ^ 36 - - Sir Robert Wigram, Bart.. M.P. - ,. 38 Launch of the Edinburgh at Blackwall Yard • „ 48 - . Earl of Balcarres — East Indiaman - ^, 62 - -
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