Queen Charlotte (ship)
A number of sailing ships have been named Queen Charlotte.
Naval vessels
- HMS Queen Charlotte - four vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named Queen Charlotte
- Hired armed cutter Queen Charlotte served the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and was involved in an heroic single ship action against a larger French vessel.
- HMCS Queen Charlotte is the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve Division in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
British merchant ships
- Queen Charlotte (1781 ship) - Built in France and taken in prize c.1781, probably on the Jamaica Station. Of 450 tons (bm); renamed on purchase. Appears between 1781 and 1783 in Lloyd’s Register, briefly as a privateer and then a transport, under the ownership of Fraser & Co. Sold to Butler & Co., with James Pollock, master.
- Queen Charlotte (1785 ship) - Performed a circumnavigation of the world (1785–1788), and two voyages under charter to the British East India Company (EIC) between 1786 and 1796.[1]
- Queen Charlotte (1810 ship) was the Upper Canada Provincial Marine ship that later became HMS Queen Charlotte. In time she became USS Queen Charlotte, before returning to mercantile trade and being abandoned in 1844.
- Queen Charlotte (1813 ship) - launched in Australia and made two voyages on each of which she returned one convict from Bengal or Mauritius.
Falmouth packet ships to North America
- Queen Charlotte made one voyage to Charleston, South Carolina. A French vessel captured her on 1 September 1781 off Virginia.
- Queen Charlotte made several voyages across the Atlantic between 1788 and 1793. On her last voyage the French sloop Cerf chased her into New York.
- Queen Charlotte (1801 ship), of 185 tons (bm), was launched at Emsworth in 1801. She was armed with ten 9-pounder guns.[2] The Post Office ceased to hire her in November 1817. Her owners, Bullock & Co., continued to sail her until 1830. She then disappears from Lloyd's Register.
- Queen Charlotte made several voyages across the Atlantic between late 1802 and 16 May 1805 when the French privateer Hirondelle captured her at 47°20′N 12°20′W / 47.333°N 12.333°W after an engagement that lasted two hours.
- Queen Charlotte (1807 packet) was a Falmouth packet boat, launched at Falmouth. She was wrecked at Lisbon in 1814.
Citations
- ^ British Library: Queen Charlotte.
- ^ Lloyd's Register (1814), seq. no. Q17.
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