Centurion (1804 ship)

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Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
NameCenturion
Namesake Centurion
OwnerTindall, Scarborough [1]
BuilderTindall, Scarborough [1]
Launched14 June 1804 [1]
FateWrecked 22 June 1848
General characteristics
Tons burthen478 [2] [1] (bm)
Armament6 × 6-pounder guns [2]

Centurion was launched in 1804. She initially sailed as a West Indiaman. She made one voyage to India. She then sailed between Britain and Quebec City. Centurion was last listed in 1839, but with data stale since 1834. Centurion, Heppinstall, master, was wrecked in 1848.

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Career

She first entered Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1804 with Gladstale, master, Tindall, master, and trade London–Jamaica. [2]

Centurion, W.Meade, master, sailed from England in February 1818, bound for Bombay. She sailed under a license from the British East India Company. [3] Egfrid sailed for England from the Cape of Good Hope but had to put into St Helena on 22 August 1821, leaky. It was expected that she would be condemned and so her cargo was transshipped on Centurion, Mead, master. [4] Egfrid was surveyed and condemned as a constructive total loss on 28 September. [5] Centurion sailed from St Helena on 29 September and arrived at Deal on 4 December, with Egfrid's cargo. [6]

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource
1805GladstaleTindallLondon–JamaicaLR 6x6
1808R. DouglasTindallLondon–JamaicaLR 6x6
1810R. DouglasTindallLondon–JamaicaLR 6x6
1813W. Betty
Parrish		TindallLondon–JamaicaLR 6x6
1815ParrishTindallLondon transportLR
1820W. MeadTindallLondon–BengalLR; thorough repair 1817
1822Mead
Heppenstall		TindallLondon–Calcutta
London–Quebec		LR
1825J. BankierTindallLondon–QuebecLR

Centurion sprang a leak and was beached on Goose Island, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to Bristol, Gloucestershire. [7] She was refloated the same day. She returned to Quebec City on 18 May, then went to Munn's Cove to unload her cargo and undergo repairs. [8]

In a letter from Miramichi dated 13 May 1828, Captain Barkier reported that Superb, Cain, master, was on her way from Bristol to Quebec, when on 23 April, on the Newfoundland Banks, Superb struck ice and was stove in. The next day Cain and two men boarded a schooner; seven crewmen boarded Superb's pinnace but the pinnace drifted off without provisions and it was believed that they had perished. The brig Diana, Lookup, master, took off the remaining 11 crew members. Diana was on her way to the Bay de Chaleurs. Barkier took three of the eleven from Diana and brought them too to Miramichi. [9]

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource
1830J. BankierTindallLondonLR; small repairs 1829
1833HeppinstallTindallLondon-QuebecLR; small repairs 1829
1834HippenstallLR
1839HippenstallLR

Fate

Centurion, Heppenstall, master, was wrecked on 22 June 1848, at St. Shott's, Newfoundland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to London. [10] She was described as having been built in 1804 as the 100th vessel built by John Tindall, the father of her present owners, the members of Tindall & Co. [11]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 Hackman (2001), p. 260.
  2. 1 2 3 LR (1804), Seq.№C88.
  3. ↑ LR (1819), "Licensed India Ships".
  4. ↑ Lloyd's List №5641.
  5. ↑ Lloyd's List №5648.
  6. ↑ Lloyd's List №5651, SAD data.
  7. ↑ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (6029). 15 July 1825.
  8. ↑ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (6030). 19 July 1825.
  9. ↑ Ships List: Ship Arrivals at the Port of Quebec, 1828.
  10. ↑ "Ship News". The Morning Post. No. 23286. London. 25 July 1848. p. 7.
  11. ↑ "COUNTRY NEWS". 29 July 1848, York Herald (York, England) Issue: 3955.

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