Royal Charlotte (East Indiaman)
Royal Charlotte, Robert Dodd (artist), National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Four vessels named Royal Charlotte, for Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, consort of King George III, sailed as East Indiamen for the British East India Company (EIC) between 1762 and 1815:
- Royal Charlotte (1761 ship), that Perry, Blackwall, launched her in November 1761; she was of three decks and 771 (or 779 9⁄94[1]) tons burthen (bm). She made three trips to India and the Red Sea for the EIC between February 1762 and July 1770.[2] In 1773 she was sold to the French East India Company.[1]
- Royal Charlotte (1771 ship), that Dudman, Deptford, launched on 6 December 1771; she was of three decks and 855 72⁄94[1] tons (bm). She made five voyages to India and China between February 1772 and June 1787;[3] she was present at the Battle of Porto Praya. She was sold in 1787 for breaking up.[1]
- Royal Charlotte (1789 ship), of 1252 tons (bm), made two trips for the EIC between January 1790 an September 1794. The Admiralty bought her in 1795 and renamed her HMS Malabar. She foundered in 1796.
- Royal Charlotte (1796 ship), which Thomas Pitcher, Northfleet, launched on 7 June 1796; she was of 1453 53⁄94[1] tons (bm), and made eight trips to the Far East for the EIC between August 1796 and August 1815.[4] She was sold for breaking up in 1816.[1] Four captains of this vessel received letters of marque (LoM), as a change in captain required the issue of a new letter. Each of the letters describe the ship as being of 1518 tons (bm), and although this differs from the records in the National Archives, the names of the captains match the records, and one listing of vessels gives the tons burthen as 1252, like that of her predecessor. Over the four letters, crew size rose from 135 to 160 men. Armament changed from forty 18, 12, and 9-pounder guns on the first letter, to thirty-eight 18 & 12-pounders on the subsequent three letters. The captains and the dates of their letters were:[5]
- William Roper (5 July 1796)
- Richard Franklin(18 February 1804)
- Robert Patterson (21 April 1806)
- Henry Rush (10 February 1809)
See also
Citations and references
Citations
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hackman (2001), pp.186-7.
- ↑ British Library: Royal Charlotte (1).
- ↑ British Library: Royal Charlotte (2).
- ↑ British Library: Royal Charlotte (5).
- ↑ "Register of Letters of Marque against France 1793-1815"; p.81 Archived 9 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine.
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 0-905617-96-7
- Hardy, Charles and Horatio Charles Hardy (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. (London: Black, Parry, and Kingsbury).
- National Archives - Accessed 18 April 2013.
- Selections from Calcutta gazettes of the years 1784 [-1823 inclusive] showing the political & social condition of the English in India ... (1865). (O.T. Cutter).
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