Transportation Disasters in 1840 - Maritime Incidents in 1840, Railway Accidents in 1840, HMS Zebra, Steamship Lexington (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Maritime Incidents in 1840, Railway Accidents in 1840, Hms Zebra, Steamship Lexington, Texan Schooner San Jacinto, Hms Buffalo, Schooner Jenny, Howden Rail Crash. Excerpt: HMS Zebra, was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built of teak by the East India Company dockyard in Bombay and launched in 1815 as the last of the Cruizer-class. The master shipwright was Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia. She was commissioned in December 1815 under Commander Robert Forbes for passage to England. However, Philip Henry Bridges was acting commander of Zebra from December 1815-November 1816, then he was promoted into Challenger. In May 1816, she arrived in Madras from Calcutta, and by August she was at Simon's Bay. By 14 December 1816, she had reached Portsmouth where she was paid off into Ordinary, where she stayed until 1825. In February 1825, she was recommissioned for the Mediterranean under Cdr. Edward R. Williams and sailed in May. On 6 January 1827, Zebra left for the Mediterranean. She arrived in Zante on 28 January 1827 with dispatches for Captain Irby of Pelican from Capt. Hamilton of Cambrian. Here Williams learned that the Governor of Maina Giovanni Mavromicali had reneged on his agreement to sail his galley to Zante for arbitration on goods plundered from Ionian vessels. Williams agreed to go in search of Mavromicali. Williams sailed on 30 January and, on 4 February, Zebras boats brought out from the port of Catecali a bovo (a small local sailing boat) belonging to the pirate Nicolo Cipriotti and rescued an Ionian trabaccolo that he had seized. The pirates had escaped ashore so the cutting out party burnt the bovo. The boats searched the shore up towards Cape Kitries and, on 8 February, they sighted a vessel near Scardamoula ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1010366