Alexander (ship)

A number of sailing vessels were named Alexander:

  • Alexander (1783 ship), a merchant ship built in Hull and used to transport convicts in the First Fleet to New South Wales in 1788
  • Alexander (1785 ship), launched at Bristol in 1785 as Alexander. As Alexander, and later renamed Prince, she served as a slave ship.
  • Alexander (1794 ship), built in France in 1791 under a different name. She was taken as a prize and her new owners renamed her Alexander. She made one voyage for the British East India Company, and then made four voyages as a slave ship between 1798 and 1807.
  • Alexander (1796 ship), built in Pembroke, Massachusetts, in 1796 and made at least maritime fur trade three voyages.[1]
  • Alexander (1801 ship Shields), a 301-ton merchant vessel launched at Shields; she became a whaler and made one voyage to New Zealand and the South Seas whale fisheries (1802-06) for Hurry & Co.
  • Alexander (1803 ship Bombay), a ship of 600 or 746 tons burthen, launched in 1803 at Bombay and wrecked in 1815.
  • Alexander (1803 Liverpool), a ship of 614 tons (bm), launched in 1803 at Liverpool and sold in 1817
  • Alexander (1807 ship), a ship launched by William Taylor, Bideford, for Buckles & Co. She was sailing from Ceylon and Mauritius to London when on 9 August 1828 she wrecked on Cole House Point.
  • Alexander (1811 ship), a 227-ton merchant ship built in the United States in 1811, captured as a prize during the War of 1812 and transported convicts to Port Jackson in 1816
  • Alexander (1812 ship), of 492​88⁄94 tons (bm), launched in 1812 by Michael Smith at Howrah, Calcutta, for his own account.[2] She was lost in the China Sea in 1835.[3]
  • Alexander (1813 ship), of 229 tons (bm), launched at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for Walkinshaw & Co.[2]
  • Alexander (1828 ship), of 523​30⁄94 tons (bm), launched in 1828 by John Blackett, Millwall Dock, Poplar, London, for his own account.[2]

See also

Citations and references

Citations

  1. Malloy, Mary (1998). "Boston Men" on the Northwest Coast: The American Maritime Fur Trade 1788-1844. The Limestone Press. pp. 68–69. ISBN 978-1-895901-18-4.
  2. Hackman (2001), p. 249.
  3. Phipps (1840), p. 104.

References

  • Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Phipps, John, (of the Master Attendant's Office, Calcutta) (1840). A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time ... Scott.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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