| History | |
|---|---|
 Great Britain | |
| Name | Ellice |
| Owner | J.Mellish |
| Builder | Bermuda |
| Launched | 1798 |
| Fate | Wrecked 1 November 1817 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 368, [1] or 370, or 374, [2] or 376, (bm) |
| Armament |
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Ellice (or Ellis, or Ellise) was launched in 1798 in Bermuda. From 1800 to her loss she was a hired transport for the government, carrying passengers and cargo between London and the Mediterranean, sailing as far as Malta. She was wrecked in November 1817.
Ellice entered Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1800 with J.Dryden, master, Mellish & Co, owner, and trade London transport. [2] She had damages repaired in 1800.
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1801 | J.Dryden | Mellish | London transport | LR; damages repaired 1800 |
| 1807 | J.Dryden | Mellish | London transport | LR; damages repaired 1800 |
| 1809 | Longstaff | Mellish | London transport | RS – Ellis [1] |
| 1811 | Longstaff | Mellish | London transport | RS – Ellis |
| 1812 | Longstaff | Mellish | London transport | LR; thorough repair 1812 |
| 1815 | Longstaff | Mellish | London transport | Register of Shipping; thorough repair 1811 |
| 1818 | J.Scott | Mellish | London–Malta | LR; thorough repair 1812 |
The transport ship Ellice was wrecked on 1 November 1817 on the north coast of Spain. [3] By one report, one hundred and forty-four passengers and the rest of the crew were rescued. [4] LLoyd's List reported that the wreck took place on 5 November and that an officer to the 60th Regiment and about 30 others were drowned. [5]
Indian was a merchant ship launched at Shields in 1810. Her first voyage was to transport convict convicts to Australia. She then became a West Indiaman. She wrecked with heavy loss of life on 8 December 1817.
Agamemnon was launched at Sunderland in 1811. She traded with India and made one voyage in 1820 transporting convicts to New South Wales. She was wrecked in 1826.
Alligator was launched in 1793 at London. She made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC). She then became a general trader crossing the Atlantic. She was wrecked in 1820.
Dick was a merchant ship built in 1788 in Rotherhithe, on the River Thames, England. She initially sailed as a West Indiaman. Her role and whereabouts between 1796 and 1810 are obscure. Later, she made two voyages as a troop transport, one to Ceylon and one to New South Wales. She then made one voyage transporting convicts to New South Wales. She was last listed in 1822.
Grant was launched at Whitby in 1798, or possibly 1799. She made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC) between 1800 and 1802. Thereafter she sailed as a West Indiaman or a London-based transport. She was last heard from in 1820; Spanish authorities may have seized her off Peru.
HMS Mastiff was launched at Hull in 1790, as Herald. From there she traded with the Baltic. The British Royal Navy purchased her in 1797, had her fitted at Leith, and named her GB №35, and then Mastiff. She served as a convoy escort in the North Sea until she wrecked in 1800.
Young Nicholas was built in Holland in 1790 under another name. The British captured her in 1798 and Prinsep & Saunders purchased her and named her Young Nicholas. She made one voyage under license from the British East India Company (EIC) that resulted in legal difficulties. Next she had a short, unsuccessful cruise as a privateer that resulted in a French privateer capturing her in a single-ship action, but then releasing her. Lastly, she made a third cruise that resulted in French privateer capturing her, the Royal Navy recapturing her, and her being wrecked in a hurricane. This cruise too resulted in legal difficulties culminating in a notable court case.
Anacreon was launched in 1800 at Sunderland. She initially sailed between London and Minorca and then between 1804 and 1805 she served as an armed defense ship for the Royal Navy. She next became a London-based transport, and eventually traded from Liverpool to the Baltic and Canada. She was wrecked in 1823.
British Hero was launched at Jarrow in 1809. She initially was a government transport and so did not appear in Lloyd's Register (LR) or the Register of Shipping (RS) until she came into mercantile service c. 1813. She was lost in November 1816 on a voyage to India.
Busiris was launched at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1814 as a West Indiaman. She made one voyage as an East Indiaman and then returned to the West Indies trade. She was wrecked in May 1826.
Earl of Buckinghamshire was built at Montreal in 1814. She sailed to Britain and made two voyages to India. She then started trading between Liverpool and North America. In 1821 she carried some 600 settlers from Greenock to Quebec. Her crew abandoned her in the North Atlantic in October 1822 and she was wrecked in November when she drifted ashore at Galway Bay, Ireland.
Horatio was launched in 1800 at Liverpool. She made four voyages as a slave ship, during two of which she was captured and recaptured. Shortly before the British slave trade ended she left the slave trade and sailed between Britain and South America and as a West Indiaman. She was wrecked in 1817.
Harpooner was launched at Whitby in 1769, or possibly a few years later. Her early career is obscure. She may have been a Greenland whaler between 1786 and 1792. She appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1801, and thereafter traded across the Atlantic. She was wrecked in 1816 with heavy loss of life.
The Exmouth was a brig built in 1818. She was classed as a snow in Lloyd's Register of 1845. She worked as a whaler prior to her life as an emigrant ship sailing between Londonderry and Quebec. She was wrecked against the south side of the Isle of Islay in 1847 during a storm. Two hundred and forty-one people lost their lives; three crewmen survived.
Archimedes was launched at Sunderland in 1796 or 1797. She traded between England and the Baltic until the British government chartered her as a transport c.1809. She was lost in December 1811 while coming back from the Baltic.
Lady Hannah Ellice was launched in 1812 as a West Indiaman. Later, she traded more widely, including making two voyages to India under a license from the British East India Company. She survived two maritime misadventures but suffered a final wrecking in August 1838.
Several vessels have been named Ellice:
Sovereign was launched at Newcastle in 1789. She traded between London and South Carolina and then as a transport. In 1802 she became a Guineaman, i.e., a slave ship. She wrecked on 22 January 1804 as she was returning from the West Indies where she had landed her slaves at Trinidad.
Albion Packet was a schooner launched at Berwick by Gowan. She sailed primarily along Britain's coasts, and later to the Baltic. She disappeared from the registers between 1816 and 1822, when she reappeared as Albion. Circa 1827 she became Albion Packet again. She underwent two maritime mishaps, one in August 1802 and one circa December 1827, before being wrecked on 17 November 1832 near Orford High Light.
Sea Horse was launched in 1782 at Gravesend for the Hudson Bay Company. She then became a merchantman that a French naval squadron captured in 1794. She became the Spanish merchantman Principe Fernando that a Guernsey privateer recaptured in January 1800. She became a merchantman again, and then made one voyage as a whaler. She became a Government transport and it was as a transport that she was wrecked in 1816 with great loss of life.