Earl Talbot (1797 EIC ship)
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| Name: | Earl Talbot |
| Namesake: | Earl Talbot |
| Owner: | William Moffatt[1] |
| Builder: | Perry, Blackwall |
| Laid down: | 1796 |
| Launched: | 12 January 1797[1] |
| Fate: | Last listed in 1819 |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| Tons burthen: | 1428,[3] or 1428 10⁄94(bm) |
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| Beam: | 43 ft 3 in (13.2 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 17 ft 6 in (5.3 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
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Earl Talbot was launched in 1797 as an East Indiaman for the British East India Company (EIC). She made one complete voyage to Madras and China between 1797 and 1798. She was lost in October 1800 on her second voyage for the EIC.
EIC Voyage #1 (1797-1798): Captain Jeremiah Dawkins received a letter of marque on 28 January 1797. (He had been captain of the predecessor Earl Talbot, which had been sold in 1793 for breaking up.) He sailed from Portsmouth on 18 March, bound for Madras and China. Earl Talbot reached Madras on 18 March, Penang on 5 September, and Malacca on 15 October, and arrived at Whampoa on 19 December.[2] Dawkins had died 10 July. His replacement was his First Mate, John Dale.[4][5] Homeward bound, Earl Talbot crossed the Second Bar on 1 March 1798, reached St Helena on 5 August, and arrived in the Downs on 18 October.[2]
EIC Voyage #2 (1800-loss): Captain John Hamilton Dempster received a letter of marque on 11 December 1799.[3] He sailed from Portsmouth on 7 January 1800, bound for Bombay and China.[2] She left Bombay on 17 August.[6] On 2 October she and several other Indiamen were sighted at the Anambas Islands.[7] Later that month she struck on the Perates, in the South China Sea during a gale.[Note 1] She foundered with the loss of all her passengers and crew, who numbered some 150 persons.[6]
Houghton sighted the wreckage as she was sailing from Canton to Bombay and reported the news when she arrived at Bombay. The EIC sent two ships from Bombay to search for survivors.[1]
Notes, citations and references
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Citations
References
- Grocott, Terence (1997) Shipwrecks of the revolutionary & Napoleonic eras (Chatham). ISBN 1-86176-030-2
- Hackman, Rowan (2001) Ships of the East India Company. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society). ISBN 0905617967
- Hardy, Horatio Charles (1811) A register of ships, employed in the service of the Honorable the United East India Company, from the year 1760 to 1810: with an appendix, containing a variety of particulars, and useful information interesting to those concerned with East India commerce. (Black, Parry, and Kingsbury).
- Hood, Jean (2003) Marked for misfortune : an epic tale of shipwreck, human endeavour and rescue in the age of sail. (London: Conway Maritime). ISBN 9780851779416