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History
United Kingdom
NameEngland
OwnerThomas Ward
BuilderBuckle & Davies, Chepstow[1]
Launched14 July 1813[1]
FateFoundered 1843
General characteristics
Tons burthen420,[2] or 425[1] (bm)
Length116 ft 0 in (35.4 m)
Beam28 ft 8 in (8.7 m)
PropulsionSail
Complement21 (at loss)

England was built at Chepstow, Wales in 1813. She made two voyages transporting convicts from England to Australia. On the first she was under chart3er to the British East India Company and after delivering her convicts sailed to Canton where she picked up a cargo for the EIC. She foundered in 1843.

Career

Under the command of John Reay and surgeon George Thomson, she left The Downs, England on 6 May 1826, and arrived in Sydney on 18 September.[3] She embarked 148 male convicts and had no convict deaths en route.[4] A detachment of the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot provided the guard.

England departed Port Jackson 21 October bound for Canton. She arrived at Whampoa Anchorage on 31 December, and left on 8 February 1827. Her voyage ended on 25 June.[2]

On her second convict voyage she sailed under the command of James Blyth and surgeon Thomas Wilson. She left Sheerness, on 4 April 1832 and arrived in Hobart Town on 18 July.[5] She embarked 200 male convicts and had two deaths en route.[6]

Fate

Lloyd's Register for 1842 shows England with Lewis, master, T. Ward, owner, and trade London, changing to London–Sierra Leone. The entry also has the notation "Foundered". She foundered on 15 January 1843 off Ostend on passage from London for Sierra Leone.[1] She had left London 7 January for Africa. After leaving The Downs she encountered a hurricane that caused her ballast to shift, which put her on her beam ends. She foundered in the North Sea 3 leagues (9 nautical miles (17 km)) off Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium. a Dutch pilot boat rescued her 21 crew.[7]

Citations and references

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d Hackman (2001), p.103.
  2. ^ a b British Library: England.
  3. ^ Bateson (1959), pp.296-7.
  4. ^ Bateson (1959), p.330.
  5. ^ Bateson (1959), pp.310-11.
  6. ^ Bateson (1959), p.333.
  7. ^ "The Late Hurricane." Times [London, England 21 Jan. 1843: 5. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 7 Jan. 2018.]

References

  • Bateson, Charles (1959). The Convict Ships, 1787-1868. Brown, Son & Ferguson. OCLC 3778075.
  • Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

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