Pilot (1813 ship)

History
United Kingdom
Name: Pilot
Owner:
  • 1813:Clark & Co.[1]
  • 1815:S. & F. Somes & Co.
Builder: Temple, Jarrow[1]
Launched: 7 October 1813[1]
General characteristics
Tons burthen: 390,[2] 392,[3] 392​69⁄94,[1] or 394 (bm)
Length: 101 ft 6 in (30.9 m)[1]
Beam: 30 ft 2 in (9.2 m)[1]
Propulsion: Sail

Pilot was launched in 1813. She transported convicts to New South Wales in 1817. She disappeared in 1820.

Career

Pilot first appears in Lloyd's Register in 1813 with Hall, master.[2] The 1815 volume shows her master changing to Grice, her owner to Simes, and her trade to Cowes—Batavia.[4]

On 9 March 1817 Captain William Pexton 1817 sailed from Cork for Port Jackson, and arrived there on 29 July 1817.[3] She had embarked 119 male convicts, but only disembarked 117, though none of whom died en route.[5] Presumably two may have been landed before she departed England.

Pilot's surgeon-superintendent was Charles Queade. He had drawn up and issued to Captain Pexton and the commander of the guard a detailed set of instructions concerning the care and security of the convicts. When Pilot arrived at Port Jackson he passed a copy of these to Governor Lachlan Macquarie. By the mid-1820s the government itself developed and disseminated detailed regulations.[6]

After she delivered her convicts, Pilot sailed on 7 September for Hobart,[7] and then in November for Batavia.

The Register of Shipping for 1819 showed Pilot with S. Owens, master, Somes, owner, and trade London—Ceylon.[8]

Fate

On 28 May 1820 Pilot, Owen, master, sailed from Bengal for London. She was not heard of again.[9]

Citations and references

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hackman (2001), p.305.
  2. 1 2 Lloyd's List (1813), Supple. Seq.№79.
  3. 1 2 Bateson (1959), pp.290–91.
  4. ↑ Lloyd's Register (1815), Seq.№319.
  5. ↑ Bateson (1959), p.327.
  6. ↑ Bateson (1959), p.48-9.
  7. ↑ "Arrival of Vessels at Port Jackson, and their Departure". Australian Town and Country Journal, Saturday 3 January 1891, p.17. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
  8. ↑ Register of Shipping (1820), Seq.№321.
  9. ↑ Lloyd's List №5550.

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.
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