Atlas (1811 ship)

History
United Kingdom
Name: Atlas
Owner: T. Barrick[1]
Builder: T. Barrick, Whitby[2]
Launched: 1811, or 1812[3]
General characteristics [2]
Tons burthen: 501,[1] or 502[3](bm)
Length: 115 ft 6 in (35.2 m) (keel)
Beam: 32 ft 2 in (9.8 m)
Propulsion: Sail
Armament:
  • 1812:10 × 18-pounder guns "of the New Construction"[1]
  • 1816:10 × 18-pounder carronades[3]

Atlas was a 501-ton sailing ship that was built at Whitby and launched in 1811. In 1816 she transported convicts to New South Wales, and disappeared off the coast of India in 1817.

Convict voyage (1816)
Under the command of Walter Meriton, she sailed from Portsmouth, England on 23 January 1816, and arrived at Port Jackson on 22 July.[4] She embarked 194 male convicts, seven of whom died on the voyage.[Note 1] A detachment of 34 men of the 89th Regiment of Foot provided the guard.

Atlas left Port Jackson on 12 September bound for Batavia.[6]

Disappearance
On 29 July 1817, Atlas dropped the pilot at Sandheads, at the mouth of the River Ganges, as she sailed from Calcutta to London.[Note 2] She was not heard from again.[Note 3]

Lloyd's Register continued to carry Atlas, with Meriton, master, and trade London—Botany Bay, to the 1821 volume. The Register of Shipping carried the same information to the 1822 volume.

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

  1. ↑ The numbers in Bateson clearly exhibit some typographical errors. He has Atlas embarking 294 convicts, and landing 187, with only one convict having died on the voyage.[5]
  2. ↑ Hackman confuses the fate of this Atlas with that of a different Atlas.[7]
  3. ↑ Lloyd's List gives the master's name as Moncur,[8] but all other sources give it as Meriton.

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 Lloyd's Register (1812), supplement seq. no. A161.
  2. 1 2 Weatherill (1908), p.122.
  3. 1 2 3 Register of Shipping (1816), Seq. №A1347.
  4. ↑ Bateson (1959), pp.290-1.
  5. ↑ Bateson (1959), p.327.
  6. ↑ "Arrival of Vessels at Port Jackson, and their Departure". Australian Town and Country Journal, Saturday 3 January 1891, p.16. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
  7. ↑ Hackman (2001), p. 252.
  8. ↑ Lloyd's List, 31 July 1818, n° 5302.

References

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