John Philippe Bosdet

1827 -

• Name	John Philippe Bosdet  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Born	16 Apr 1827	St. Brelade, Jersey, Channel Islands   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Gender	Male
  Name	Jean Philippe Bosdet  [7]
  Name	John Bosdet  [5]
  Name	John Philip Bosdet  [9]
  Notes	HMS Himalaya was ordered by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company as SS Himalaya. She was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1854 and served with them until 1920. She was sunk in 1940. The SS Himalaya was a 3,438 gross register ton iron steam screw passenger ship. When launched she was the largest ship in the P & O fleet and was not exceeded in size until the SS Australia of 1870. Design and construction Himalaya had been planned as a paddle steamer but that design was becoming outdated and she was altered to screw propulsion while she was still on the stocks, and she was fitted instead with a single two-bladed propeller of 18 feet diameter. She was also fitted with sails on three masts for use when the wind was favourable. She was laid down at the yards of C. J. Mare & Co., Leamouth, London in 1852 and launched on 24 May 1853. She could carry 200 first class passengers and required a crew of 213. Sale and commissioning She proved to be a larger vessel than the passenger traffic demanded and coal was becoming more expensive with the advent of war in the Crimea in 1854, so P&O were happy to sell her to the British Government at her cost price of £130,000 in July 1854 for use as a troopship. The Royal Navy had built smaller vessels, so called frigates, during the 1840s, such as HMS Simoom, which had served as troopships when the idea of iron warships was discredited by live-firing trials. Himalaya was purchased during the Crimean War when there was a pressing need for troopships. The purchase was viewed with suspicion by naval experts. General Howard Douglas is reported to have predicted that she would have a short career. General characteristics Displacement: 4,690 tons Tons burthen: 3,553 tons Length: 340 ft (100 m) Beam: 46 ft (14 m) Propulsion: Single expansion steam, single screw Sail plan: Full-rigged ship Speed: 14 Knots under Steam 16.5 Knots with sails assisting 12 Feb 1856 Left Malta 17 Feb 1856 Left Gibraltar 25 Feb 1856 Arrived Spithead from the Mediterranean with 70 Naval invalids 25 Feb 1856 Sailed for Southampton D/Y Judicial Greffe D/Y/A/23/20 Testament of Françoise Bosdet of St Brelade. Dated 04/07/1833. Desires to be buried in St Brelade's Cemetery. Bequeaths to the poor of St Brelade, £12 of the Order of the King, to Jean Bosdet an English Bible and the 'Voyage du Chrétien', and to Elizabeth Bosdet, a large Bible. 27/06/1834 - 27/06/1834 L/C/215/A Contracts L/C/215/A/13 Bail à fin d'Heritage between Jean Philippe Bosdet, procureur of Nicolas Le Couteur son of Amice of the first party, and Marie Marguerite Le Rossignol, daugher of Augustin of the second party. Records the lease in perpituity from 1 to 2 of a house and côtil in the parish of St Peter on the Fief de la Hague for the sum of 4 quartiers of wheat of annual rente. Registered livre 122, folio 21. 21/12/1816 - 21/12/1816 L/C/166/B6 Bundle 6, 1830 - 1835 L/C/166/B6/56 Obligation in which Philippe de Gruchy receives a loan from Jean Philippe Bosdet procureur of Rachel de Gruchy 25/01/1834 - 25/01/1834 B/C/01/B1 Bundle of actions to be heard at the Cour d'Héritage with wrappers, 7 Oct 1824 B/C/01/B1/37 Jean Philippe Bosdet, curateur of Philippe Vincent against Pierre Martin concerning rentes arising from Le Clos de Jean Le Feuvre in the Fief du Roi, St Peter 07/10/1824 - 07/10/1824
  Person ID	I254	Bosdet Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 May 2013

  
  

  Father	Jean Bosdet,   b. Abt 1781, St Peter, Jersey, Channel Islands ,   d. Aft 04 Jul 1833  (Age ~ 52 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Jeanne Renouf,   b. Jun 1785, St. Brelade, Jersey, Channel Islands
  Relationship	Natural
  Married	18 May 1815	St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands   [7]
  Family ID	F231	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 1	Renestine Jane Tirel,   b. 1836, St. Peter, Jersey, Channel Islands ,   d. 16 Feb 1896, St Brelade, Jersey, Channel Islands  (Age 60 years)
  Married	01 Oct 1874	Southampton, Hampshire, England   [1, 8]
  Family ID	F92	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	Ann,   b. 1851, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands
  Married	Abt 1903  [9]
  Family ID	F93	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

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