Re: Venezuelan steamer PACIFICADOR
Posted by:
david asprey (IP Logged)
Date: March 24, 2018 06:27PM
Looks like 2 x MARACAIBO
1) 256grt 174nrt, 142.5 x 20.6 x 11.0ft, 60nhp screw
built ?? (iron)
18xx ??
8/2/1879 Henry H Berelton*, Caracas as MARACAIBO (GBR flag, reg Port of Spain, Trinidad, ON 57414)
c1880 deleted from British registry
*Suspect that "Henry H Berelton" was Henry Lord Boulton.
2) 664grt 473nrt, 178.2 x 32.2 x 13.2ft, C2cyl 75nhp screw
built 7/1880 Neafie & Levy, Philadelphia PA (Yd ??)(wood)
8/2/1881 William Bliss**, Philadelphia PA as MARACAIBO (GBR flag, reg Kingston, Jamaica, ON 81187, c/s KBLP)
c1884 British regustry closed
1885 Atlantic & Caribbean Steam Navigation Co (Red 'D' Line)(USA flag, reg Wilmington NC, ON 91573)
1889 renamed MERIDA
1911 hulked
** William Bliss of Philadelphia was British-born and entitled to own a ship on the British register. He was a business partner of John Dallett (Red 'D') and the British trading family of Boulton in Venezuela