| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| James Sim & others (Aberdeen Steam Navigation Co), Aberdeen |
Aberdeen |
09/05/1870 |
| Other names |
| 1902 LIBERTADOR - 1902 BOLIVAR - 1904 MARROQUIN / PRESIDENTE MARROQUIN |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1875 Aberdeen Steam Navigation Co, Aberdeen
1901 Rodolfo de Paula for Manuel Matos
1/1/1902 Venezuela flag, later Colombian as subterfuge
1904 Colombian Navy
1917 ??, New York |
| Vessel history |
1883 958g 506n; 1887 980g 528n; 1888 940g 490n; c1893 1023g 542n; 1895 981g 574n
10/1901 sold for demolition but resold to Rodolfo de Paula on behalf Venezuelan political leader and revolutionary Manuel Matos, as a gunboat and to import arms from Europe (to allay suspicion, de Paula said he was acting for the Colombian Government, who were sympathetic to Matos).
9/11/1901 briefly detained in London while being fitted out as a gunboat but released when the Colombian Consul declared it was his government's ship - loaded arms in Antwerp; declared "pirate ship" by Venezuela Government
12/1901 guns were mounted at Marigot, St Martin, French West Indies, and then sailed to Martinique
1/1902 arrived Trinidad from where Matos organised gun-running into Venezuela; sabotaged by British master Willis and put into Barranquilla, Colombia
2/1902 sank Venezuelan man-of-war GENERAL JOAQUIN CRESPO
1904 (1902?) Colombian Government as a gunboat.
1905 decommissioned and abandoned at Cartagena
1907-8 Colombian Navy's first training ship
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1927 |
Register Closed |
| Disposal Detail |
| LR closed 1927 |
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