Princess Charlotte (ship)
Several vessels have been named Princess Charlotte for one of the many Princesses Charlotte:
- Princess Charlotte (1796 EIC ship) was an "extra ship’’ of the British East India Company (EIC). She made four voyages for the EIC. On her second voyage she suffered a short-lived mutiny and then spent almost a year as an armed ship in the service of the EIC, including a voyage to the Red Sea. A squadron of the French Navy captured her in the Vizagapatam roads in 1804, on her fourth voyage.
- Princess Charlotte (1813 ship) was launched in Sunderland in 1813. She immediately started trading with the Indian Ocean and India under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She made one voyage for the EIC, and she made two voyages transporting convicts to Australia, one to Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, and one to Port Jackson, New South Wales. She foundered in 1828 in the Bay of Bengal.
- Princess Charlotte (1819 brig) was a 60-ton brig 1819 that disappeared in 1820 on a voyage between Hobart Town and Sydney.
See also
- Princess Charlotte of Wales (1812 EIC ship) was an East Indiaman named for Princess Charlotte of Wales. She made nine voyages to Madras and Bengal for the EIC before she was broken up in 1831.
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