Francis and Eliza (1782 ship)
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Name: | Francis and Eliza |
Builder: | River Thames, England |
Launched: | 1782 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 345 tons |
Propulsion: | Sail |
Complement: | 35 (1797) |
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Francis and Eliza was a brig built in 1782 upon the River Thames, England. An American privateer captured her in 1815 while she was transporting convicts from Ireland to Port Jackson, New South Wales, and then released her.
French Revolutionary Wars
On 20 January 1797 Captain Thomas Todd received a letter of marque for Francis and Eliza.
Napoleonic Wars
During the Napoleonic Wars she transported troops. In November 1813, under Captain William Harrison and as part of a fleet escorted by HMS Jalouse, she transported injured troops and some French prisoners from St. Andero back to England.
Convict transport
Under the command of William Harrison, she sailed from Cork, Ireland on 5 December 1814, with 54 male and 69 female convicts. On the voyage the American 21-gun privateer Warrior, under the command of Guy Champlin, captured her on 4 January 1815.[1] After the Americans had stripped Francis and Eliza of her guns and ammunition they allowed her to sail on. A few of her crew joined the Americans. She arrived in Teneriffe around 20 January.[1]
Francis and Eliza arrived at Port Jackson on 9 August. Two male and four female convicts had died on the voyage. She left Port Jackson on 26 October bound for Batavia.[2] On 3 January 1816 she was in the Straits of Sunda on her way to Batavia.[3]
Francis and Eliza was at the Cape in late July, and on 31 August was at St Helena. She arrived at Mounts Bay, Ireland, on 8 October, under the command of Captain Kennedy. William Harrison had died on the voyage.[4]
Citations and references
- Citations
- 1 2 Lloyd's List, no. 4947 - accessed 11 August 2015.
- ↑ "Arrival of Vessels at Port Jackson, and their Departure". Australian Town and Country Journal, Saturday 3 January 1891, p.16. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
- ↑ Lloyd's List, no.5070 - accessed 11 August 2015.
- ↑ The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, (November 1816), Vol. 2, p.535.
- References
- Bateson, Charles, The Convict Ships, 1787-1868, Sydney, 1974. ISBN 0-85174-195-9