Edwin Fox
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The Edwin Fox is a museum ship, the Edwin Fox Maritime Museum in Picton, New Zealand. It is the ninth- oldest surviving the floating sailing ship, the last preserved East Indiamen and one of the last great sailing ships of teak. The ship's name is derived from a known Southamptoner Quakers.
History
Time as traveling Sailboat
The Edwin Fox was commissioned in 1853 by the renowned East India Company. Even during construction at a shipyard in Sulkeali (Kolkata ) the ship went into the possession of the shipowner George Hodgkinson of Cornhill, London, who after her first trip home with tea from India in London for a record price of 30,000 pounds to the shipowner Duncan Dunbar auctioned. This they immediately chartered to the British government, which instituted the ship as a troop transport. Their first trip took 496 soldiers of the 51st regiment in the French Baltic Sea, later they sent the ship to the Crimean war into the Black Sea. After 18 months in the service of the Admiralty led by Edwin Fox three East India travels before it was chartered again by the British government, initially to bring about political prisoners to Fremantle in Australia, later steps troops against the Indian rebellion of 1856/58 place to bring. The ship then spent some years in global tramp shipping. 1861 deleted the Edwin Fox on Indian request a charge acquired in Bombay just to have space ship in the fight against famine in the Northwest provinces available. Duncan Dunbar died in 1862 and the ship came into the hands of the London shipping company Gellatly & Company, which used it as Teesegler. During this time she received the nickname " Teatub " ( German: Teewanne ). Again later, she made trips to charter the shipowner Shaw, Savill & Company with emigrants from England, Ireland and Scotland to Dundein, Wellington, Nelson and Littleton in New Zealand. On these trips the sailors suffered a series of accidents and groundings. 1878 takelte you around the ship to Bark.
Service as the Hulk
As ships of the make of the Edwin Fox, first of clippers and were soon replaced it by steamboats, one equipped the Edwin Fox in London, where cooling machinery and undertook its last major voyage, after she arrived in Dunedin in June 1885. Then you put the Gefrierhulk in Gisborne, Lyttleton, Bluff and Port Chalmers, a freezing of sheep. Per day, they could freeze up to 500 sheep, the shelf life was about 20,000 sheep.
On January 12, 1897 was dragged the Edwin Fox in the Queen Charlotte Sound area of Marlborough Sound in the South Island of New Zealand. One area that they never left more. There, too, she served in the coming years as a stationary first freezing ship until around 1900 the Picton Freezing Works were built and were in charge of the ship. They were taken to another place and used them as a jetty before it was subsequently used as a coal for the opposite packing center.
Rescue and Restoration
In 1965, the already very dilapidated ship local businessmen was offered for sale to restore it. Norman Brayshaw then founded in May of this year, the Edwin Fox Restoration Society, which took over the ship for a shilling. Due to lack of permission from the Picton Council to move the ship to the port of Picton, you put it after several disappearances within the area in the bay due to Shakespeare. There, the Hulk spent another twenty years during which, not least because of the type of teak, destroyed more and more parts of the ship, or were stolen.
It was only in October 1986 issued a new Council for permission to salvage the ship and awarded a permanent mooring. By the end of the year the ship was cleared of rubble, floated again and was towed to Picton on December 4. In the 1990s, people began to build a given specifically for the Edwin Fox dry docks in Cook Strait Ferry Landing, in which the Hulk was floated on 18 May 1999 in order to restore it there. For this purpose built 2001, a roof over the area.