Career
Laing & Co. purchased her as a prize. She first appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1814 with Kennedy, master, Laing & Co., owners, and trade London–Newfoundland. [3] The next year Fullerton replaced Kennedy as master.
In 1816 her master changed from Fullerton to C. Kerr, her owner was Goldie & Co., and her trade was London–Hayti. [4] By 1818 her trade was London–Cape of Good Hope. That was a far east as she could legally sail without a license from the British East India Company (EIC).
On 31 December 1816 Blucher sailed from the Cape to Île de France. The lists of vessels sailing under a license from the EIC do not include her, suggesting that she may have been sailing east of the Cape without permission.
Be that as it may, she arrived at Île de France on 4 January and on 5 February she was still there undergoing repairs. She had met with a gale after she had left the Cape, but was expected to sail for Batavia in eight or 10 days. [5] On May 14 she sailed for Java. [6]
On 14 August 1817 Blucher, Kerr, master, was again at the Cape, having reportedly come from Batavia and Île de France. [7]
Loss
On 1 March 1818 a gale caught Blucher in port at Île de France. She had to cut away all her masts and was so damaged as to be considered irreparable. [8]
On 15 September 1818 Lloyd's Register reported that on 14 May Blucher, Kerr, master, sailed from Île de France, bound for Java. [9] On 10 September 1819 Lloyd's Register reported that Blucher, Kerr, master, had arrived on 8 April at Batavia from Sourabaya. [10] However, there are no other such mentions from late 1818 or late 1819.
Both Lloyd's Register and the Register of Shipping continued to carry Blucher, Kerr, master, with stale data to 1827 or 1823. Both were only as accurate as vessels' owners chose to keep them.
Batavia was built at Topsham, England in 1802. At first she traded independently with the East Indies, but then she made three voyages for the British East India Company (EIC). Lastly, she made one voyage in 1818 transporting convicts to Australia. She was broken up in 1819.
Elizabeth was launched at Hull in 1813. She made one round-trip to Bengal for the British East India Company (EIC). She was last listed in 1841.
Apollo was launched in 1812 at Hull. She made three voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) as a regular ship. She continued to trade with India under licence from the EIC until she was wrecked near Cape Town in 1823.
Snake was a prize that came into British hands in 1808. Her first owner employed her a privateer, but in 1810 sold her. Thereafter she sailed between London or Plymouth and the Cape of Good Hope (CGH), or from Falmouth in the packet trade. She may have spent her last years sailing between London and South America. She was last listed in 1824.
Caesar was launched in 1810 on the Thames River. She sailed first as a West Indiaman, and then after 1814 to the East Indies under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). In 1817 she repatriated from Batavia to London Lord William Amherst and the offices and crew of HMS Alceste. Caesar was last listed in 1825.
Huddart was launched in 1803 as an East Indiaman. She made eight voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), between 1803 and 1818. In 1810-1811 she participated as a transport in two British military campaigns. In 1818 new owners deployed her in sailing to Canada. She was wrecked there in 1821.
Iris was launched at Shields in 1811. She first sailed as a London-based transport. In 1819 she was wrecked on a voyage to India.
Aurora was launched in 1790 at Calcutta. The first 10 years of her career are currently obscure. In 1801 she made a voyage to England for the British East India Company (EIC), and then was briefly registered in England. She returned to India to continue to sail as a "country ship" until she was sold to Portuguese or Spanish owners in 1811. She returned to British ownership circa 1816 and made a second voyage for the EIC, this time from China to England. She returned to English registry and made one voyage to India under a license from the EIC. She then switched to sailing between Liverpool and Quebec and was lost in the Atlantic around 1822.
Blucher was launched in 1814 at Sunderland. She mostly sailed across the Atlantic to South and North America though she may have made a voyage to Calcutta under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She was wrecked in 1824.
Wolfe's Cove was built by Baldwin & Co and launched in 1812 at Ile d'Orleans near Quebec. She sailed to England and from there first traded with Canada and then from 1816 with Mauritius, India, and Java. An American privateer captured her in 1813, but the Royal Navy recaptured her within weeks. She was damaged and hulked at Mauritius in 1819.
Welton was launched at Hull in 1809. She first traded between Hull and Quebec and then later with South America and the Caribbean, but then traded with India. She was lost in 1817 at Bengal.
Bulmer was launched in 1809 at Newcastle. She traded generally and served as a transport carrying troops. Then from 1815 on she traded with India. Damage in a storm as she was homeward bound from Bengal resulted in her being condemned in 1821 and sold for breaking up.
Caledonia was launched at Sunderland in 1815. She was initially an East Indiaman, sailing between England and Bombay under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). In 1820 and again in 1822 she transported convicts to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). After about 1825 she became a West Indiaman. Her crew abandoned her at sea on 28 August 1832 in a leaky state.
Rockingham was launched at Sunderland in 1818 and immediately became an East Indiaman, sailing under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She made one voyage for the EIC. She was wrecked in 1830 while delivering immigrants to Western Australia.
Lady Carrington was launched at Bristol in 1809. In an apparently short and uneventful career, she made five voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) before she was broken up in 1823.
Durham was launched in France in 1813 under another name and taken c.1814. New owners named her Durham. She traded with Newfoundland, the Caribbean, and South America. She was lost in 1819, believed foundered with all hands on her way back to Liverpool from the Dutch East Indies.
Earl of Lonsdale was launched at Whitehaven in 1810. She sailed as West Indiaman. She next made one voyage to the East Indies in 1814, and then returned to the West Indies trade. A gale at Jamaica in October 1815 destroyed her.
True Briton was launched at Pont Neuf, Quebec, in 1811. Her primary trade was sailing between Britain and New Brunswick, but she also sailed to Jamaica, and made two voyages to India. Her crew abandoned her in the Atlantic in 1822.
Glenmore was launched in 1806 at Elgin. She was initially a West Indiaman. She made one voyage to Bengal in 1813–14. She became a Greenland whaler in 1818 and made four full whaling voyages. She was lost in the White Sea in 1822.
Aberdeen was launched at Quebec in 1811. She sailed to England and then traded between Quebec and Britain. She made two voyages to India under license from the British East India Company (EIC). After her return from the second, in 1820, she was no longer listed.
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