Career
Resource first appeared in readily available online sources in 1807 when the French frigate Piémontaise captured Resource (of 480 tons), on 9 October 1807. Resource was carrying toile and 7,500 sacks of rice. The value of the prize was 215,930.24 francs.Resource returned to British ownership; she was registered at Calcutta prior to January 1811.
Resource was one of the transport vessels supporting the British Invasion of Java (1811).
In 1813 the EIC had lost its monopoly on the trade between India and Britain. British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a license from the EIC.
Resource, James Henderson, master, arrived at Batavia on 31 October 1814 from Bengal and Bencooolen. She sailed from Java on 12 December 1814 for London and the Cape of Good Hope. [9]
Resource first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1815. [10]
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
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| 1815 | Henderson | Bonham | London–Bengal | LR |
| 1822 | Henderson
Fenn | Bonham | London–Bengal | LR; good repair 1819 |
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In 1822 Resource was sold for a "Free Trader".
In 1813 the EIC lost its monopoly on the trade between India and Britain. British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a license from the EIC.
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
|---|
| 1823 | Fenn | Fenn | London–Fort William, India | LR; good repair 1819 |
| 1826 | Tomlin
Fenn | B.Fenn | London–Calcutta | LR; good repair 1819 |
| 1830 | B.Fenn
G.Stoddard | B.Fenn | London–Calcutta
London–Cape of Good Hope | LR; good repair 1819 & small repairs 1828 |
| 1830 | [Henry] Shuttleworth | Watson & Co. | London–Van Diemen's Land | LR (Supple.); good repair 1819 & small repairs 1828 |
| 1832 | Shuttleworth
Warren | Watson & Co. | London–Van Diemen's Land | LR; good repair 1819 & small repairs 1828 |
| 1834 | Warren | Watson & Co. | London | LR; good repair 1819 & small repairs 1828 |
| 1835 | Coombes | | London | LR |
| 1836 | J.Coombes | T.Ward | London | LR |
| 1837 | | T.Ward | London | LR |
| 1839 | W.Boyle | T.Ward | London–South Australia | LR |
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Resource, W.Boyle, master, left London on 7 October 1838 and arrived at Adelaide on 23 January 1839 with 211 passengers. She sailed on to Port Phillip, returning to Adelaide on 13 May having lost 2280 out of the 2700 sheep she was carrying.
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
|---|
| 1842 | W.Boyle | T.Ward | London–New South Wales
London | LR; small repairs 1840 & 1842 |
| 1843 | W.Boyle
Lewis | T.Ward | London
London–Africa
Liverpool–Quebec | LR; small repairs 1840 & 1842 |
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Aurora was launched in 1790 at Calcutta. The first 10 years of her career are currently obscure. In 1801 she made a voyage to England for the British East India Company (EIC), and then was briefly registered in England. She returned to India to continue to sail as a "country ship" until she was sold to Portuguese or Spanish owners in 1811. She returned to British ownership circa 1816 and made a second voyage for the EIC, this time from China to England. She returned to English registry and made one voyage to India under a license from the EIC. She then switched to sailing between Liverpool and Quebec and was lost in the Atlantic around 1822.
Welton was launched at Hull in 1809. She first traded between Hull and Quebec and then later with South America and the Caribbean, but then traded with India. She was lost in 1817 at Bengal.
Java was a merchant ship launched at Calcutta, British East India, in 1811. She made one voyage under charter to the British East India Company (EIC). She served in the migrant trade between Great Britain and Australia and in Far East trade. She became a coal hulk at Gibraltar circa 1859. She survived until World War II.
Earl of Lonsdale was launched at Whitehaven in 1810. She sailed as West Indiaman. She next made one voyage to the East Indies in 1814, and then returned to the West Indies trade. A gale at Jamaica in October 1815 destroyed her.
True Briton was launched at Pont Neuf, Quebec, in 1811. Her primary trade was sailing between Britain and New Brunswick, but she also sailed to Jamaica, and made two voyages to India. Her crew abandoned her in the Atlantic in 1822.
Sir James Henry Craig was launched at Quebec in 1811. She sailed to England and made three voyages as a West Indiaman. The British East India Company (EIC), in 1813 lost its monopoly on the trade between Britain and India. In 1817 she sailed for India but was condemned at Calcutta after she sustained extensive storm-damage at the start of her homeward-bound voyage.
HMS Vulture was launched in 1801 at South Shields as Warrior. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1803 as a sloop and renamed her. From 1808 through 1813 she was a floating battery at Jersey,. The Navy sold her in 1814 and she returned to mercantile service as Warrior. She was last listed in 1820, but does not seem to have sailed again after returning from east of the Cape in 1817.
Liverpool was launched at Calcutta in 1815. She traded between Britain and India under a license from the EIC, and was lost in May 1823.
Glenmore was launched in 1806 at Elgin. She was initially a West Indiaman. She made one voyage to Bengal in 1813–14. She became a Greenland whaler in 1818 and made four full whaling voyages. She was lost in the White Sea in 1822.
Aberdeen was launched at Quebec in 1811. She sailed to England and then traded between Quebec and Britain. She made two voyages to India under license from the British East India Company (EIC). After her return from the second, in 1820, she was no longer listed.
Lord Wellington was launched in 1811 at Great Yarmouth. She was a West Indiaman but in 1820 made one voyage to India under license from the British East India Company (EIC). Her crew abandoned her in the North Atlantic in July 1825 when she became waterlogged.
Lord Wellington was launched in 1811 in Montreal. She became a London-based transport that made one voyage to India in 1819 under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). Afterwards she continued to sail to the Baltic and North America. She was last listed in 1829.
Reliance was launched at Coringa in 1815. She sailed east of the Cape of Good Hope until c.1827 when she sailed to England and assumed British registry. Once in Britain she sailed back and forth to Bengal under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She also twice transported military convicts to New South Wales. In 1832 Bennett sent Reliance on a whaling voyage to the Pacific. After she returned she sailed on a second whaling voyage, but this time to the Indian Ocean where she wrecked at the end of 1836.
Jane was launched in 1813 at Fort Gloucester. She transferred her registry to Britain and sailed between Britain and India or Batavia. She was last mentioned in 1820, though the registers continued to carry her until 1826.
Stentor was launched in 1814 at Sunderland. In 1820 she transported settlers to South Africa. She made several journeys to India under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). As a transport she carried troops and supplies to such destinations as Sierra Leone, Fernando Po, Ceylon, and the West Indies. She was wrecked in November 1846.
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Albinia was launched at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1813. She initially sailed several times to India under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She then sailed primarily between London and Demerara. She foundered on 25 March 1842 off the coast of Ireland.
Swallow was launched at Calcutta in 1813. She sailed to England and then traded between England and India under a license from the British East India Company (EIC) through 1824. She returned to Calcutta registry and at some point after 1824 was sold in Java.
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