Picton (1815 ship)

History
United Kingdom
Name	Picton
Owner	1815:James Martin Hilhouse, George Hilhouse, Robert Hilhouse and Josiah Gist, ship-builders, Bristol. 1817 January 8: James Wason, William Hood and George Eveleigh Kiddell, merchants, Bristol.
Launched	1815
Commissioned	13 December 1815
Homeport	Bristol
Fate	Wrecked January 1820
General characteristics
Tons burthen	23280⁄90 (bm)
Length	90 ft 10 in (27.7 m)
Beam	24 ft 0 in (7.3 m) (below)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Fully rigged ship
Notes	Two decks & three masts

Picton was launched in 1815 at Bristol. She made three voyages to the West Indies and one to St. Petersburg. Her first master was Charles Mountstephens. She enters Lloyd's Register in 1816 with Mountstevens as master and trade London-Jamaica.^[1]

Then on 27 January 1817 John Morris replaced Mountstephens, shortly after her change of ownership. Picton, Morris, master, was outbound on a voyage to Barbados when she wrecked on Foreland Point between Minehead and Ilfracombe during a storm on 20 January 1820.^[2] Two crewmen died of exposure but a woman passenger and the rest of the crew were saved. (The same storm claimed a number of other vessels.)

• Farr, Grahame E., ed. (1950) Records of Bristol Ships, 1800-1838 (vessels over 150 tons). (Bristol Record Society), Vol. 15, p. 60.