Earl of Mornington (1766 ship)

History

United Kingdom
Name:	Earl of Mornington
Namesake:	Earl of Mornington
Owner:	Abbott & Co.^[1]
Builder:	Bombay Dockyard
Launched:	1766^[1]
General characteristics
Tons burthen:	500^[1]^[2] (bm)
Propulsion:	Sail
Complement:	80^[2]
Armament:	10 × 6-pounder guns,^[1] or 12 x 6 & 12-pounder guns^[2]

Earl of Mornington (or Earl Mornington), was a merchant vessel of 500 tons burthen (bm) built at Bombay Dockyard of teak and launched in 1766 or 1768. She made three voyages under charter to the British East India Company (EIC) under the command of captain Benjamin Ferguson. She does not appear in Lloyd's Register until 1804 and no longer appears in either Lloyd's Register or in the Register of Shipping in 1810.

Career

Her first voyage for the EIC took place between 20 November 1799 and 22 August 1802. On this voyage she sailed to Bengal.^[3]

She was surveyed in 1802,^[1] possibly in Britain.

Her second voyage had her sailing from Madras on 24 January 1803, reaching St Helena on 14 April, and arriving at the Downs on 28 June.^{[Note 1]}

Ferguson received a letter of marque on 15 October 1803.^[2]

Her third voyage had Earl of Mornington sailing on 6 November 1803 for Madras, arriving on 16 May 1805.^[3]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

↑ The British Library conflates this Earl of Mornington with the earlier Earl of Mornington, listing the two vessels' voyages together under the name of the first.^[4]

Citations

1 2 3 4 5 Lloyd's Register, 1804.
1 2 3 4 Letter of Marque, 1793-1815; p.40 Archived July 9, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
1 2 Hackman (2001), p.230.
↑ British Library: Earl of Mornington.

References

Hackman, Rowan (2001) Ships of the East India Company. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society). ISBN 0-905617-96-7

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