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Trecothick was launched in 1770, on the Thames, as a West Indiaman. She was lost in 1781.
Career
Trecothick, of 260 tons (bm), first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in the volume for 1770 (mis-labelled 1768).[2]
Year
Master
Owner
Trade
Source
1770
James Moore
Ald[erman] Trecothick
London–West Indies
LR
In 1770–1771 Trecothick traded primarily with Grenada, though in August–September 1771, Trecothick, Crozier, master, made a voyage to Petersburg. In subsequent years she continued to trade with Grenada, but also with Dominica and increasingly, Jamaica.
Missing volumes of Lloyd's Register mean that Trecothick next appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1776.[1]
Barlow Trecothic died on 28 May 1775. By at least 1779 Trecothic had been sold.
Year
Master
Owner
Trade
Source
1776
James Moore
Trecothick
Jamaica−London
LR
1779
J.Moore T. Elder Greaves
George Greaves
London−Jamaica
LR
1781
G. Greaves
Moore & Co.
London–Jamaica
LR
Loss
A small group of ships, consisting of Trecothick, Clyde, Maria, and Nancy, sailed together from Bluefields, Jamaica for London on 21 September 1781, having missed the convoy, and were joined off Cuba by Africa, under captain Wood, also from Jamaica. Africa proved to be very leaky and on 7 October was the first to be abandoned and set on fire, in position 30°31′N77°52′W / 30.517°N 77.867°W / 30.517; -77.867, with those aboard being taken by captains Greaves and Cook of Trecothick and Nancy respectively.[3][4]Nancy was separated in a gale on 12 October, and the following day Trecothick signalled distress as leaking and with a broken rudder. She too was abandoned and burned, with the passengers and crew going aboard Maria in 35°00′N69°30′W / 35.000°N 69.500°W / 35.000; -69.500.[4][5]Maria and Clyde subsequently parted, with the former intending to call in Ireland, and Clyde heading for the North Channel.[4] News of the voyage was first brought by Captain John Christy of Maria, who landed at Kinsale, Ireland, on 22 November, soon after his own ship had been captured by the new Salem privateer Grand Turk,[6] and on 24 November Captain Wright and Clyde arrived at Port Glasgow.[4]
↑ "Dublin". Dublin Evening Post. No.597. 27 November 1781. p.2. Retrieved 9 November 2022– via British Newspaper Archive.
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