Earl of Mornington (1766 ship)

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British-Red-Ensign-1707.svgGreat Britain
NameEarl of Mornington
Namesake Earl of Mornington
OwnerAbbott & Co. [1]
BuilderBombay Dockyard
Launched1766 [1]
General characteristics
Tons burthen500 [1] [2] or 600 [3] (bm)
PropulsionSail
Complement80 [2]
Armament
  • 10 × 6-pounder guns, [1]
  • or 12 x 6 & 12-pounder guns [2]

Earl of Mornington (or Earl Mornington), was a merchant vessel of 500 tons burthen (bm) built at Bombay Dockyard of teak and launched in 1766 or 1768. She made three voyages under charter to the British East India Company (EIC) under the command of captain Benjamin Ferguson. She does not appear in Lloyd's Register until 1804 and no longer appears in either Lloyd's Register or in the Register of Shipping in 1810.

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Career

Her first voyage for the EIC took place between 20 November 1799 and 22 August 1802. On this voyage she sailed to Bengal. [4]

She was surveyed in 1802, [1] possibly in Britain. She appeared on the Madras registry in 1803 with Benjamin Ferguson, master. [3]

Her second voyage had her sailing from Madras on 24 January 1803, reaching St Helena on 14 April, and arriving at the Downs on 28 June. [lower-alpha 1]

Ferguson received a letter of marque on 15 October 1803. [2]

Her third voyage had Earl of Mornington sailing on 6 November 1803 for Madras, arriving on 16 May 1805. [4]

Notes

  1. The British Library conflates this Earl of Mornington with another Earl of Mornington, listing the two vessels' voyages together under the name of the first. [5]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Lloyd's Register, 1804.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Letter of Marque, p.40 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  3. 1 2 East India Register and Directory (1803), p.215.
  4. 1 2 Hackman (2001), p. 230.
  5. British Library: Earl of Mornington.

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