Career
Caroline first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1813. [1]
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
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| 1813 | A.Gourlie | F.Beckett | London–Quebec | LR |
| 1814 | A.Gourlic
H.Allen | F.Becket | London–Quebec | LR |
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Lloyd's List (LL) reported on 26 August 1814 that Caroline, Allen, master, had been returning to London from Demerary when she grounded on the Bembridge Ridge. It was expected that she would be gotten off. [3] On 25 August she was gotten off after some of her cargo had been removed. She was taken into Portsmouth. [4]
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
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| 1815 | H.Allen
Lilburne | F.Becket | London–Demerara | LR |
| 1816 | J.Lilurne
C.Davy | F.Becket | London–Demerara | LR |
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On 6 March 1818 Caroline, Serjeant, master, sailed from Demerara but grounded on one of the banks. She had to put back and it was expected that she would be detained until spring. [5]
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
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| 1819 | J.Sargent | Douglas & Co. | London–Demerara | LR |
| 1820 | J.Sargent
D.Taylor | Douglas & Co. | London–Demerara
London–New South Wales | LR |
| 1821 | D.Taylor | F.Lord | Plymouth–New South Wales | LR |
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On 3 August 1820, Caroline, Taylor, master, arrived at Plymouth from London. She sailed on 8 August, bound for New South Wales. She arrived there, and then on 3 January 1821 Caroline, Taylor, master, sailed from Port Jackson for the Derwent River. On 30 May she was back at New South Wales from Hobart Town.
On 15 November Caroline sailed for the South Shetland Islands; she arrived there on 19 December 1821. On 3 February 1822 Caroline, Taylor, master, from Port Jackson, was reported to be there with 500 seal skins. [6] However, by 25 February she was at Valparaiso, having come from the Juan Fernández Islands. On 15 February 1823 Caroline returned from her 16-month long sealing and whaling voyage. She was last from Macquarie Island. [7]
On 17 April she sailed for Macquarie Island to hunt elephant oil and skins. My mid-July she was back at Hobart Town. On 2 October she again sailed for Macquarie Island. On 1 January 1824 she returned with a full cargo of oil. [8] On 30 January she arrived at Sydney from Macquarie Island with a full cargo of sea-elephant oil.
On 4 March Caroline sailed for the sperm whale fishery. On 22 April she returned from Macquarie Island with 90 tons of elephant oil. On 4 July Caroline sailed for Hobart and Île de France. By 28 August she was in the River Derwent. On 1 September she arrived at Sydney with 3150 bushels of wheat from Launceston, Tasmania. [9]
Fate
Caroline departed from Port Jackson on 17 November 1824, bound for Macquarie Island.
Caroline, Taylor, master, was totally lost in March 1825, together with her cargo, on the west coast of Macquarie Island. [10] A gale had driven her ashore. Some 90 tons of her cargo of 130 tons of elephant seal oil were lost, but all aboard survived. Some five months later Wellington brought Taylor and his crew back to Sydney. [11] About a month later Cyprus brought Caroline's surviving whale oil from Macquarie Island back to Tasmania. [12]
Sun was a brig built in 1819 at Sunderland and was condemned at the Cape of Good Hope in August 1822. She was repaired and began sailing east of the Cape. She was wrecked in May 1826 in the Torres Strait.
Castle Forbes was a merchant ship built by Robert Gibbon & Sons at Aberdeen, Scotland in 1818. She made several voyages to India, sailing under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She made two voyages transporting convicts from Ireland to Australia. She sustained damage in 1826 on a voyage to India and was condemned at the Cape of Good Hope. However, she was repaired. She was last listed in 1832, and in 1838 in Lloyd's Register (LR).
Cyprus was a brig launched at Sunderland in 1816. The colonial government in Van Diemen's Land purchased her in 1826. In 1829 as she was transporting convicts from Hobart Town to Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, some of the convicts seized Cyprus. They sailed her via Japan to Canton, where they scuttled her.
Adriatic was launched in 1811 in the United States. The British Royal Navy seized her in July 1812. She was sold in 1813 and her new owners named her Vittoria. She traded with the West Indies, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean, the last sailing under a licence from the British East India Company. She was last listed in 1834.
Auguste was a French 14-gun privateer commissioned in Saint-Malo in November 1811 under Pierre Jean Marie Lepeltier. She captured numerous British merchant vessels before the Royal Navy forced her in January 1814 to run onshore and wreck.
Caroline was a merchant vessel launched at Shoreham in 1804 as a West Indiaman. She spent almost her entire career sailing to the West Indies, and endured two maritime mishaps during that period, one at Sierra Leone. She sailed to Batavia in 1824 under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). From Batavia she sailed to Sincapore, where she was condemned.
Brailsford was launched at Kingston upon Hull in 1811. She traded widely, including making several voyages to India under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She suffered mishaps in 1823 and 1826 and was finally wrecked on 19 April 1831.
Clarendon was built in 1807 at Whitehaven. Between 1808 or so and 1813 she sailed as a West Indiaman between London and Jamaica. In 1814 she sailed for Batavia under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). The privateer Young Wasp captured Clarendon off the Cape of Good Hope, on 6 January 1815, and she arrived at Baltimore on 15 April.
HMS Bramble was launched in Bermuda in 1809. She had a relatively brief and uneventful career before the Royal Navy sold her in December 1815. She became the mercantile Bramble, and was last listed in 1824.
Tamerlane was launched in New Brunswick in 1824. She transferred her registry to Liverpool. She sailed between Scotland and Canada and then in 1828 sailed to India under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). After two voyages to India she returned to trading in the Western hemisphere. Her crew abandoned her in the Channel on 26 February 1848.
Tartar was launched in France in 1802, or Spain in 1805, almost certainly under another name. In 1806 she sailed under the flag of the United Kingdom on a voyage as a slave ship from Liverpool. On her return she started trading between Liverpool and Brazil and Africa. A French frigate captured her in 1813, but then released her. She was wrecked early in 1815.
Harriot was launched in 1784 on the Thames as a West Indiaman. Her owners may have intended to send her to the South Seas as a whaler in 1786, but there is no evidence that she actually made such a voyage. A new owner renamed her Dominica Packet around 1787. She then spent her career primarily sailing between Britain and the West Indies. During her career she captured a Dutch and a Spanish merchantman. A Baltimore privateer captured Dominica Packet in 1813, but the British Royal Navy quickly recaptured her. She foundered circa January 1821.
Agreeable was launched at Bermuda in 1786, probably under a different name. French owners acquired her at some point and sailed her as Agréable. In 1793 the British captured her. Subsequently, she made six voyages as a slave ship between 1793 and 1808, alternating between slave trading and sailing as a regular West Indiaman. French privateers captured her between the second and third, and the third and fourth, but each time the British Royal Navy recaptured her. In the case of the second capture she was in French hands long enough for them to send her out as a privateer. She herself captured an American vessel in 1808 as she was returning to Liverpool from her last slave voyage. After the end of British participation in the slave trade Agreeable traded more widely, particularly to South America. She was condemned at Buenos Aires in 1814 after running aground in the River Plate. She was repaired and continue to sail to Brazil until she returned to Liverpool in June 1819.
Star was built in Calcutta in 1800. Between 1803 and 1811 she made three seal hunting voyages. From 1812 she sailed as a merchantman until she was wrecked on 18 December 1829 on a voyage to Jamaica.
Dowson was launched in Hull in 1807 as a West Indiaman. She quickly became a transport and then made one voyage to New South Wales. Later she traded with North America. She underwent two maritime mishaps that she survived, one in 1807 and one in 1821. Her crew abandoned her in the Atlantic Ocean on 19 October 1836.
Hyder Ally was a privateer from Portland, Maine, that received a letter of marque in 1814. She sailed to the eastern Indian Ocean where she captured three prizes before the British Royal Navy captured her.
Lady Holland was launched in 1811 at Rochester, as a West Indiaman. She underwent one maritime incident in 1812. She continued sailing to the West Indies until 1826. Then she began sailing to India uner a license from the British East India Company. She wrecked in February 1830 on the outbound leg of her third voyage to Bengal.
David Shaw was launched at Whitehaven in 1805. She quickly became a West Indiaman. Between 1817 and 1821 she made two voyages to New South Wales, returning from the second voyage via Batavia and Mauritius. She suffered a major maritime incident in 1822. Prior to 3 July 1826 her crew abandoned her at sea waterlogged.
Caledonia was launched in Philadelphia in 1779, possibly under another name. Caledonia first appeared in British records in 1800. She traded with the Baltic and Canada. Then in 1814 United States privateers captured her twice. The first time the privateer released Caledonia; the second time the Royal Navy recaptured her. She returned to trading with Canada until she was wrecked in September 1824.
Betsey was launched at Bristol in 1800, and sailed as a West Indiaman. American privateers captured her twice in 1813 but each time she was recaptured. She was last listed in 1825.
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