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| Name | City of Edinburgh |
| Builder | Henry Baldwin, Quebec [1] [2] |
| Launched | 1803 |
| Fate | Last listed 1821/1822 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 304, [3] or 310 [1] [2] (bm) |
| Length | 97 ft (30 m) [1] |
| Beam | 27 ft (8.2 m) [1] |
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City of Edinburgh was built at Quebec in 1803. She sailed to England and from 1804 to 1820 was a West Indiaman and general trader. She sustained damages in maritime incidents in 1805 and 1820, and was last listed in 1821.
A letter dated 2 March 1804 reported that City of Edinburgh's Quebec registration had been cancelled. [2]
City of Edinburgh first entered Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1804 with Postgate, master, Brickwood, owner, and trade London–Quebec. [5] In England she became a West Indiaman. She had some damages repaired in 1805, and by 1806 her trade was London-Antigua. [4] Lloyd's List had reported on 8 February 1805 that City of Edinburgh, Moreton, master, had been onshore near Margate and had received much damage. She had been on a voyage from London to Antigua. [6]
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
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| 1810 | Cook Snelhead | Blackett & Co. | London–West Indies | LR; damages repaired 1805 |
| 1815 | A. Donald | Blackett & Co. | London–Grenada | LR |
| 1820 | Godly | Blackett & Co. | London–Cadiz | LR |
On 16 October 1820 City of Edinburgh was sailing from Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America, to London when she parted from her anchors at the Isles of Scilly and ran onshore at the Point of the Crow Bar. She filled with water but her cargo and sails were landed. [7] She was refloated on 19 October and taken in to St Mary's Pier for repairs to her considerable damage. [8] On 10 April 1821 she was seaworthy again and was to proceed to Falmouth under escort by two pilot boats. [9] On 17 April she was sighted off Falmouth under tow by two pilot boats. [10] She arrived the next day under jury masts. [11]
City of Edinburgh was last listed in Lloyd's Register in 1821 and in the Register of Shipping in 1822. More tellingly, she does not again appear in the Lloyd's List SAD data after her arrival in 1821 at Falmouth in a crippled state.
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Retreat was launched in 1801 and briefly sailed as a West Indiaman between London and Jamaica. She then made five voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) as an "extra ship", that is, under charter. She was broken up in 1814.
Several ships have borne the name Caledonia for Caledonia:
Mercury apparently was launched in 1786 at Topsham, but her career prior to 1790 is obscure. She initially traded with Virginia and then with the "Straits". In 1794-1795 she made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC). On her return she became a West Indiaman. She was lost in 1802.
Andersons was launched at Poole in 1798. She then made seven voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. After the end of the British slave trade in 1807 her owners sold her to new owners who employed her as a West Indiaman. By 1810 she was registered in Whitby. She then served as a general merchant vessel until she was wrecked in 1823.
Agincourt was a merchant vessel launched at North Shields in 1804. She was a transport and later sailed between Britain and Quebec. Her crew abandoned her at sea in 1821.
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.
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.
Sir James Henry Craig was launched at Quebec in 1811. She sailed to England and made three voyages as a West Indiaman. The British East India Company (EIC), in 1813 lost its monopoly on the trade between Britain and India. In 1817 she sailed for India but was condemned at Calcutta after she sustained extensive storm-damage at the start of her homeward-bound voyage.
Stirling was built in 1812 at Montreal, Quebec. She apparently traded out of Liverpool as a West Indiaman. There is little evidence that she traded as an East Indiaman. She was last listed in 1821 and a vessel named Sterling, sailing out of Quebec, was wrecked in November 1821.
Ceres was launched at Kolkata in August 1793 as Lutchmy and renamed in 1794. She sailed to England in 1798 and became a West Indiaman. She was condemned at Barbados in 1806. New owners returned her to service, first as a West Indiaman and then as an East Indiaman. She was damaged at Mauritius in 1818 and although she was listed until 1824, it is not clear that she sailed again after the damage she sustained in Mauritius.
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.
Lord Wellington was launched in 1811 in Montreal. She became a London-based transport that made one voyage to India in 1819 under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). Afterwards she continued to sail to the Baltic and North America. She was last listed in 1829.
Diana was launched in 1799 as a West Indiaman. From 1805 she made four voyages as an East Indiaman under charter to the British East India Company. She made a fifth voyage to India in 1817 under a license from the EIC. She ran into difficulties in the Hooghly River while homeward bound and was condemned in Bengal in June 1818.
Prince of Orange was launched in Sunderland in 1814. She originally sailed as a West Indiaman but then became an East Indiaman, sailing to India under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She made two voyages transporting convicts to Australia, the first in 1820–1821 to New South Wales, and the second in 1822 to Van Diemen's Land. Between 1830 and 1840 she made nine voyages as a whaler to Davis Strait. She was lengthened and rebuilt in 1846. In December 1852 she grounded and it took some months to get her off. She then need major repairs. She also suffered damages in 1854. She foundered in 1858.
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.
Glaphyra was launched at Calcutta in 1814. She came to England in 1821 and thereafter sailed as a West Indiaman. She was wrecked on 19 June 1854.
Harmony was launched in 1798 in Lancaster as a West Indiaman. Between 1805 and 1807 she sailed to the Pacific on a privateering voyage. Early in the voyage she was engaged in a single ship action in which her target repelled the attack, killing Harmony's master and inflicting severe casualties on her crew. Although Harmony returned to trading with the West Indies, in 1817 she made one voyage to India under a licence from the British East India Company. On her return she traded between Hull and Petersburg, and Quebec. New owners in 1821 decided to use her as a whaler in the northern whale fishery. She was lost there on her first whaling voyage.
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