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Rolla (ship)

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Rolla may refer to a number of sailing ships;

  • Rolla, a 165-ton (bm) 16 to 18-gun brig built in France in 1801. She twice received letters of marque in 1805, and may have made one trip as a slave ship.
  • Rolla (1800), was built in 1800 at South Shields, England. She made one voyage transporting convicts to New South Wales. She then made a voyage for the British East India Company from China back to Britain. She leaves Lloyd's Register in 1858.
  • Rolla (1803), a 118-ton (bm) brig built in Yarmouth
  • Rolla (1804), a 225-ton (bm) snow built in America that received letters of marque in 1807 and 1810
  • Rolla, an American privateer schooner, out of Baltimore, that HMS Loire captured on 10 December 1813
  • Rolla, a 132-ton (bm) British privateer, that sank in January 1815 off Cape Cod with the loss of her entire crew of 42 men, and nine prisoners from prizes she had captured; she may have been the former American privateer schooner Rolla captured in 1813
  • Rolla (1813), a 250-ton (bm) schooner built in A.P.
  • Rolla (1816), a 196-ton (bm) brig built in North Provence
  • Rolla (1819), a 130-ton (bm) brig built in Sunderland
  • Rolla (1840), a 309-ton (bm) snow built in North Shields

See also