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'''''Marquis Cornwallis''''' was launched at Sunderland in 1802. She traded widely, to the West Indies, the Iberian peninsula, and the Baltic. The American privateer {{ship||Chasseur|1812 clipper|2}} captured her in 1814 but released her as a [[cartel (ship)|cartel]] to deliver a challenging message to the British government. She was wrecked in 1823.

==Career==
''Marquis Cornwallis'' first appeared in ''[[Lloyd's Register]]'' (''LR'') in 1802. In 1803 ''LR'' showed her master as G.Killer, changing to T.Letsne and then to T. Simpson. Her owner was "Captain & Co.", and her trade London–Tobago, changing to London–Copenhagen.<ref name=LR1803>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005667087?urlappend=%3Bseq=326 ''LR'' (1803), Seq.№M269.]</ref>

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! Year
! Master
! Owner
! Trade
! Source
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| 1805
| T.Simpson
| Keiler & Co.
| Lieth coaster
| ''LR''
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| 1810
| T.Simpson
| Keiler & Co.
| Lieth–Gothenburg<br />London–Lisbon
| ''LR''
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On 17 January 1814, ''Marquis of Cornwallis'', Simpson (late), master, put into Weymouth, in a leaky state. she had been sailing from London to Gibraltar.<ref>''[[Lloyd's List]]'' [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735026?urlappend=%3Bseq=241 (''LL'') №4838.]</ref>
 
''Lloyd's List'' reported on 6 September on a number of prizes that had fallen prey to the American privateers ''Chasseur'', ''David Porter'', and ''Whig''. ''Chasseur'' had captured ''Marquis Cornwallis'', Simpson, master, on 8 August, but had given her up as a [[cartel (ship)|cartel]]. She had arrived off the [[Isles of Scilly]] on 30 August. ''Marquis Cornwallis'' had been sailing from Teneriffe to Portsmouth.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735026?urlappend=%3Bseq=383 ''LL'' 6 September 1814.]</ref>

On 27 August 1814, Captain Thomas Boyle, of ''Chasseur'', captured ''Marquis Cornwallis'',  and by her sent a message to King George. Boyle issued a proclamation of blockade, forbidding “ships and vessels of all and every nation in amity and peace with the United States from entering... any of [their] said ports.{{sfnp|Norton|2017|}}

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| 1815
| T.Simpson
| Keiler & Co.
| London–Viana
| ''LR''
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| 1820
| J.Napier
| Butt & Co.
| London–Petersburg
| ''LR''; Damages repaired 1819<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005686814?urlappend=%3Bseq=375 ''LR'' (1819), Seq.№M387.]</ref>
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In September 1818 ''Marquis Cornwall'', Napier, master, was on her way from Dunkirk to Petersburg when she ran aground on the Swine Bottoms in the Baltic Sea, off Denmark. The "Diving company" assisted in getting her off and she arrived in the Sound on the 12th.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735028?urlappend=%3Bseq=423 ''LL'' №5317.]</ref>

==Fate==
''Marquis Cornwallis'', Herring, master, foundered on 3 December 1823 off the [[Dogger Bank]], in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from [[Sunderland, County Durham]], to London with a cargo of coals. A light collier from Shields saved her crew.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/p?id=hvd.32044105226310;view=1up;seq=378 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=5864 |date=16 December 1823}}</ref>

==Citations==
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==References==
* {{cite journal |last1=Norton |first1=Louise Arthur |year= 2017 |title= Asymmetric Warfare, Early American Style:  Audacious captains employed a disruptive maritime strategy to rattle the British public during the Revolution and the War of 1812. |journal= Naval History Magazine |volume=31|issue=1 }}

{{1823 shipwrecks}}

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