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Lady McLeod Stamp

The stamp was issued to prepay mail carried by the steamer LADY MCLEOD which plied between Port of Spain and San Fernando. The ship, named after the wife of the Governor of Trinidad, was built at Govan by Robert Napier, being completed on 2 September 1845. She was a 67-ton paddle steamer, just over 109 ft in length, and was built for John Lamont, her first master being David Bryce. Bryce became her second owner in December 1845. Her third owners, in 1851, were five Trinidad merchants. She foundered in 1854 off Vistabella Point near San Fernando and was abandoned. The ship’s bell was salvaged, and after serving various purposes was, in 1948, lodged in the office of the Town Clerk, San Fernando.

Although this issue did not emanate from an official source, the Lady McLeod (as the stamp is commonly called) has the glamour of being the first adhesive stamp issued in a British Colony.

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