Ships Built And Owned by
Tindalls of Scarborough
PERSIA
2) Master: Captain J. Peterkin (1857); Captain Chetwynd (1861)
Rigging: Barque; sheathed in felt and yellow metal in 1856 & 1861
Tonnage: 526 tons using old measurements and 658 tons using new measurements
Construction: 1838 in Scarborough; some repairs in 1854, 1858 & 1859
Owners: Tindall & Co.
Port of registry: Scarborough
Port of survey: London
Voyage: sailed for Australia (1857)
His first berth as Chief Mate was aboard the 433 ton Barque Teviot owned by Tindall & Co. of Scarborough. He made only one voyage in this ship, to New York and Ceylon.
AGRIPPINA was a British bark built at Scarborough by the Tindall Yard in
1834 and engaged in the Mediterranean trade when bought or chartered
secretly by the Confederacy in 1862; she acted as the first and
principal tender to the raider ALABAMA throughout her meteoric career.
One distinguishing mark recorded of her is hull painted "black with a
yellow bead along the sides."
Orders of "8 July 1862 written by Commander Bulloch and signed by the
ostensible "owner," Mr. A. Hamilton, St. Helen's Place, London, told
British Capt. Alexander .McQueen-whom the U.S. Consul dubbed "a most
active rebel agent"-to proceed to Praya, Island of Terceira in the
Azores and await the ENRICA (ALABAMA) which he should recognize when she
should "stop a white English ensign to the after shroud of the main
rigging * * * you will answer with your number, after which you can
communicate freely." Captain McQueen was told that Capt. Matthew S.
Butcher (master until relieved by Semmes at Praya) would give him
written orders thereafter but, "You are to consider all orders from the
commander of the steamer ALABAMA] as authorized by us, with or without
any other letter of advice. "
Later AGRIPPINA coaled and rearmed ALABAMA at uninhabited Blanquilla
Island in the Caribbean, at Praya again in mid-January 1864, and
elsewhere, while Federal cruisers searched in her wake all over the
Caribbean and South Atlantic. Once in May-June 1863 USS MOHICAN and
ONWARD cornered both AGRIPPINA and CASTOR (GEORGIA'S tender) in Bahia
and stayed there in Brazilian waters until their presence forced the two
barks to sell their coal and gunpowder in consideration of a clearance
from the port; AGRIPPINA loaded "pecava" and rosewood for London, thus
being unable to meet Semmes at the Cape of Good Hope as ordered.
Source http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/csn/a.txt
