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Ship Albemarle

ID 427

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Built Rig Type Tons EIC Service
Period
EIC
Voyages
Crew Guns

 

 Ship

 ES

 520

 1791-1793

 1

 

 

Shipbuilder
Where Built
Date of Launch  

 

 France

 

 

      Dimensions & Construction

 

      Ship History

1776

 Built in France.

1779

 Captured by HMS Albion while acting as a transport for the French Army.

1779

 Condemned in the Prize Court at Barbados.

1780

 Purchased by Calvert and Co, London, as a West Indiaman.

1780

 Renamed Albemarle.

1780

 Commanded by James Boulton.

1791

 Taken up as an Extra Ship for East India Company service.

1791

 Used by the Admiralty as a convict transport to Botany Bay.

1793

 Captured by a French privateer in May 1793 and taken to Morlaix.

 
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     Ship Owners

  • Calvert & Co  1780-1793 

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