Cornwallis (1803 ship)

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Civil and Naval Ensign of France.svg France
Launched1802
Captured1803
Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
NameCornwallis
Owner
  • 1804: Robe & Co. [a]
  • 1809:Smith & Co.
  • 1811:J. Williams
  • 1826:G.E. Henderson
Acquired1804 purchase
FateLast listed in Lloyd's List in 1834.
General characteristics
Tons burthen170, [1] or 177, or 178, or 179, [2] or 180, [3] or 184, [4] or 186 [5] (bm)
Sail plan Snow; later ship
Complement
Armament
  • 1803:10 × 12&6-pounder guns [4]
  • 1806:10 × 4-pounder guns [6]
  • 1809:10 × 12&9-pounder guns [4]
  • 1811:2 × 9-pounder + 8 × 12-pounder guns [7]
  • 1813:4 × 3-pounder guns + 4 × 12-pounder carronades

Cornwallis was a French vessel launched in 1802 that came into British hands in 1803. Under a sequence of owners she traded with the West Indies, Spain, the Cape of Good Hope, and Singapore. She is last listed in 1834.

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Career

Bristol-based Archibald Robe and Co. purchased the French prize in 1803 and named her Cornwall1s. [5] She entered Lloyd's Register in 1804 with J. Baker, master, and Robe & Co., owners. Her trade was Bristol-Surinam. [8] James Baker received a letter of marque for the snow Cornwallis on 22 December 1803. [4]

Baker was her master for 1804-5, and then Alleyne replaced him. One source states that in 1806 Robe & Co. sold Cornwallis to Smith & Co., after she had made three voyages to the West Indies for Robe & Co. [5] However, the first indicator of a change of owner and master occurs in the 1809 volume of the Register of Shipping. [9] The new master was J. Thomas, and the new owner Smith & Co. Her trade became London-Cadiz. [10] On 21 November 1809 James Thomas received a letter of marque. [4]

The 1811 Register of Shipping shows Cornwallis's master changing to W. Daldy and her owner to I. Williams. Her trade changed to London-Gibraltar. [7] In 1814, her burthen changes from 186 to 177 tons. Thereafter her burthen is 177 or 179 tons, depending on the year. She is no longer armed after mid-1816.

YearMasterOwnerTrade
1812W. DalbyJ.WilliamsLondon-Havana
1813W. DalbyJ.WilliamsLondon-Mogador
London-Demerara
1814W. Dalby
Brown		J.WilliamsLondon-Demerara
London-Antwerp
1815H. BrownJ.WilliamsLondon-Antwerp
1816HuntleyJ.WilliamsLondon-Cape of Good Hope
1818HuntleyWilliamsLondon-Cape of Good Hope
1819HuntleyWilliamsLondon-Cape of Good Hope
1820ShortJ. WilliamsLondon-Cape of Good Hope
1821BourkeWilliamsLondon-Cape of Good Hope
1822Bourke
Henderson		WilliamsLondon-Cape of Good Hope
1823HendersonWilliamsLondon-Cape of Good Hope
1824HendersonWilliamsLondon-Cape of Good Hope
1825HendersonWilliamsLondon-Cape of Good Hope
1826HendersonWilliamsLondon-Singapore

On 26 October 1825, Cornwallis sailed for Singapore. [1] Cornwallis left Singapore on 7 May 1826 and was off Hastings by 2 October. [11]

In 1826 Henderson purchased Cornwallis. She then underwent a thorough repair. A list of ships trading to India and eastward of the Cape of Good Hope showed Cornwallis, Edmond Henderson, master, and G.E. Henderson, owner, scheduled to sail from London Docks on 3 December 1828 for the Cape. [3]

YearMasterOwnerTradeNotes
1827HendersonHendersonLondon
1828HendersonHendersonLondon
1829HendersonHendersonLondon-Cape of Good Hope

The last listing for Cornwallis in the Register of Shipping is in 1833. It shows Henderson, master, and Henderson, owner. For her trade it simply lists "London". [2] The entry in the 1834 volume of Lloyd's Register simply lists Henderson as master and trade as London. This is the last listing for Cornwallis.

Notes

  1. ↑ The name appears in the shipping registers as Roob and as Robb.

Citations

  1. 1 2 Lloyd/s Register.
  2. 1 2 Register of shipping (1833), Seq.№1133.
  3. 1 2 The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and ... (December 1828), Volume 26, p.768.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Register of Letters of Marque against France 1793-1815"; p.57 Archived July 9, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  5. 1 2 3 Farr (1950), p.227.
  6. ↑ Register of Shipping (1806), Seq.№C715.
  7. 1 2 Register of shipping (1811), Seq.№C806.
  8. ↑ Lloyd's Register (1804), Supplemental pages, Seq. №C99.
  9. ↑ Register of Shipping (1809), Seq. №C688.
  10. ↑ Register of Shipping (1810), Seq. №C725.
  11. ↑ Buckingham (1826), p.418.

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