Atlantic (1783)

Career (England)
Name: Atlantic
Owner: St Barbe & Co., London
Operator: East India Company, 1797-1799
Builder: Swansea, Wales
Launched: 1783
General characteristics
Tons burthen:422 or 451[1] (bm)
Sail plan:Ship rig
Complement:30-34[1]
Armament:1796: 12 x 6-pounder guns[1]

1799: 16 x 6 & 9-pounder guns[1]

1803: 6 x 18-pounder carronades[1]

Atlantic was launched in 1783. She made one voyage from England to Australia in 1791 carrying convicts. Later, she made one voyage for the East India Company (EIC). Subsequently she sailed to Smyrna, Surinam, and Gibraltar, before she disappears from records in 1810.

Career

In 1783 she was under the command of Captain Edward Redman. Under his command, she traded between London and Jamaica.[2]

In 1789 Atlantic was under the command of Captain Muirhead. She was trading between London and Archangel.[3]

Convict transport

Under the command of Master Archibald Armstrong, Atlantic departed Portsmouth on 27 March 1791, with 220 male convicts as part of the third fleet and arrived on 20 August 1791 in Port Jackson, New South Wales. Eighteen convicts died during the voyage. She left Port Jackson on 26 October 1791, bound for Bengal.[4]

East India Company

In 1795 Thomas Probeart was Atlantic‍ '​s captain, and her occupation was listed as a transport sailing out of London.[5]

Then Atlantic sailed to India for the East India Company. War with France had commenced in 1793, and during her employment with the EIC and subsequently she sailed under a letter of marque, which gave her the right to act offensively against the French, should the opportunity arise, and not just defensively. That is, the letter authorized her to capture French vessels. Probeart received a letter of marque on 26 December 1796.[1]

Captain Probert [sic], sailed past Dungeness on 5 February 1797, bound for Madras, Penang, and Bengal. On 2 May Atlantic reached the Cape, and on 20 June Madras. From there she sailed to Penang, which she reached on 23 August. She was at Penang on 27 September and also on 12 October, before leaving there on 26 November on the start of her home voyage. She reached Madras on 11 December, and Colombo on 8 January 1798. From there she sailed on to Calcutta. which she reached on 28 February. Leaving Calcutta, she was at Kedgeree on 1 November. She reached the Cape on 19 January 1799, St Helena on 16 February, and Long Reach on 17 July.[6]

Subsequent career

In 1799 Atlantic‍ '​s captain was Alexander Muirhead, who received a letter of marque on 31 August 1799.[1] Earlier that year, on 19 April, he was captain of the Eurydice, which was in Bengal with a cargo for the EIC.[7]

Under Muirhead, Atlantic traded between London and Smyrna.[8] After Smyrna, she sailed to Surinam.[9]

In 1803 Captain Curzans replaced Muirhead and sailed Atlantic to Gibraltar.[10] After the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars, Sampson Baker became Atlantic‍ '​s captain; he received a letter of marque on 8 June 1803.[1][Note 1]

Atlantic is no longer listed on the Lloyd's Register for 1810.

Notes, citations, and references

Notes
  1. ↑ Lloyd's Register still showed Curzans as master (captain), through 1809.[11] Between 1796 and 1801, Sampson had been the captain of Tellicherry, a vessel of 465 tons (bm) belonging to John St Barbe, when she made three voyages to Bengal as an extra ship for the EIC.[12]
Citations
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Letter of Marque, 1793–1815, p.51;
  2. ↑ "Ship Atlantic". East India Company Ships. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
  3. ↑ Lloyd's Register, 1789.
  4. ↑ "Arrival of Vessels at Port Jackson, and their Departure". Australian Town and Country Journal, Saturday 3 January 1891, p.16. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
  5. ↑ Lloyd's Register, 1795.
  6. ↑ National Archives: Atlantic, - accessed 8 November 2014.
  7. ↑ Hardy & Hardy (1811), p.223.
  8. ↑ Lloyd's Register, 1799 & 1800.
  9. ↑ Lloyd's Register, 1801.
  10. ↑ Lloyd's Register, 1803.
  11. ↑ Lloyd's Register, 1804.
  12. ↑ National Archives: Tellicherry, - accessed 9 November 2014.
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