Prince Frederick (1795 ship)

History
Dutch Republic
Name	Prinz Fredrik
Owner	Dutch East India Company
Builder	Amsterdam Dockyard [1]
Launched	1793
Fate	Seized December 1795
United Kingdom
Name	Prince Frederick
Owner	J. Scougall
Acquired	1795 by purchase of a prize [2]
Captured	5 December 1797
Fate	Foundered shortly thereafter
General characteristics
Tons burthen	Dutch: 1150 (Dutch) [1] English:916 [2] (bm)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	173 seamen + 19 soldiers (Dutch)
Armament	20 × 9-pounder + 2 × 4-pounder guns (British)

Prince Frederick was launched at Amsterdam in 1793 for the Dutch East India Company as Prinz Fredrik. Captain Daniel Correch stopped at The Downs, where she was detained. ^[1] In December 1795, the British Government confiscated the ship.

J. Scougall purchased her and anglicised her name. Prince Frederick appears in Lloyd's Register in 1796 with Ramage, master, J. Scougal, owner, and trade London–Cape of Good Hope. ^[3]

Captain Peter Ramage sailed her to Bengal on a voyage as an "extra ship" for the British East India Company (EIC). As Prince Frederick was returning from Madras and Bengal, the French frigate Insurgente captured her on 5 December 1797. ^[2] Prince Frederick was so badly damaged in the engagement that she sank soon afterwards. Her people, however, were saved. ^[4] The EIC put a value of £59,981 on the cargo that it had lost. ^[5]

Citations

1. The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795.
2. Hackman (2001), p. 240.
3. Lloyd's Register "P" Supple. pages.
4. Lloyd's List №2797.
5. House of Commons (1830), p. 979.

References

• Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN   0-905617-96-7.
• House of Commons, Parliament, Great Britain (1830). Reports from the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the present state of the affairs of the East India Company, together with the minutes of evidence, an appendix of documents, and a general index. Vol. 2. Printed by order of the honourable court of directors, by J.L. Cox.