Hinchinbrooke (ship)

Several ships have been named Hinchinbrooke or Hinchinbrook.

  • Hinchinbrooke (1780 ship) was the Spanish ship San Carlos that Admiral Rodney's squadron captured in 1780. She was sold as a prize and in 1781 commenced a voyage as an "extra" ship of the British East India Company. During the voyage a French squadron captured her at the Battle of Porto Praya, but the British Royal Navy recaptured her within a day or so. She was lost in the Hooghly River in 1783 on her return voyage to Britain.
  • Hinchinbrook (1811 ship) was a cutter of 70 tons (bm), that sailed between Weymouth and the Channel Islands until she wrecked in January 1826.
  • Hinchinbrook, James, master, was a Falmouth packet that was wrecked on 25 July 1813 on Watland Island, Bahamas with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to London.[1]
  • Hinchinbrooke (1814 ship), of 180–195 tons (bm), was built in America in 1812 and by 1814 was a Falmouth packet.[2] On 1 May 1814 she repelled an attack by the American privateer Grand Turk. She wrecked in May 1826.

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Citations

  1. "FALMOUTH". Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet & Plymouth Journal (536). 2 October 1813.
  2. Lloyd's Register (1815), Seq.№H628.
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