Courier (ship)

Several ships have been named Courier:

Civilian vessels

• Courier (1781 ship), a brig of 160 or 167 tons (bm), was launched in Boston in 1781. She first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1786 as a West Indiaman, sailing out of Greenock. From 1793, she was a Guineaman. She made two voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. French vessels captured her on both voyages. The first capture followed a notable single ship action, with her captor ransoming Courier. The second capture, in 1794, resulted in Courier remaining in French hands.
• Courier , a hired armed cutter in service for the benefit of the Royal Navy between 1798 and 1805.
• Courier (1812 ship) was a letter of marque schooner built at Baltimore in 1812. The British captured her in 1813 and she became a British merchantman based in Jersey. She was wrecked in February 1819.
• Courier (1824 ship), a brig of 340 tons (bm), was built by Barry Le Patourel, of Guernsey. ^[1] She was wrecked on 4 July 1833, on Babel Island, Van Diemen's Land. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New South Wales to Van Diemen's Land. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [a]}

HMS Courier

• HMS Courier (1776), ex-Le Coureur, a cutter captured by the Royal Navy from the French
• HMS Monkey (1827), ex-Courier, a converted British schooner
• HMS Courier (1830), later renamed Hermes and Charger, a sloop of the Royal Navy between 1830 and 1854
• HMS Courier (1943), formally HMCS Arnprior, a minesweeper of the Royal Navy that served during the Second World War.

USS Courier

Main article: USS Courier

Other ships

• USNS Courier (T-AK-5019), a cargo ship launched in 1962 and scrapped in 2008
• USCGC Courier, a US Coast Guard vessel between 1952 and 1972

Notes

1. A key source on vessels registered in Guernsey has no record of Barry La Patourel, of Guernsey, having built a vessel named Courier. Nor was there any other vessel built in 1824 of 340 tons (bm). ^[6]

Citations

1. Hackman (2001), p. 266.
2. "Ship News". The Times. No. 15344. London. 10 December 1833. col B, p. 4.
3. "LAUNCESTON, July 18, 1833". Launceston Advertiser. 18 July 1833.
4. "WRECK OF THE COURIER". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. 27 July 1833.
5. "Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea". The Sydney Herald. 6 March 1834.
6. Sarre (2007).

References

• Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN   0-905617-96-7.
• Sarre, John W. (2007). Howell, Alan (ed.). Guernsey sailing ships, 1786–1936. Vol. 8. Guernsey Museum monograph series.