Constantia (ship)

Several vessels have been named Constantia. The list below is in chronological order by year of launch.

* Constantia (1782 ship) was launched at Delft for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). She made several voyages between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies before the British Royal Navy captured her in 1795 when the British occupied Malacca.
* Constantia (1816 ship), was launched at Swansea in 1816. She sailed as a coaster, and across the Atlantic, making at least two voyages bringing immigrants to Canada. In April 1832, she was the first of four ships that arrived at Quebec within a month with passengers having died of cholera. She and the vessels that followed her introduced the 1826–1837 cholera pandemic to North America as it spread from Quebec to the rest of Canada and down to the United States. She was last listed in 1848.
* Constantia (1822 ship), of 22153⁄94,[1] or 239[2] tons (bm), was built by Campbell and Shepphard in Wolfe's Cove.[3][a] She sailed from Quebec, arrived at Bristol in mid-November 1822, and was sold there.[1][5] [6] Constantia sailed from Bristol in early March 1823.[7] On 13 May,[b] she was wrecked in Gabaron Bay, Cape Breton Island.[8][9][10][11] The crew and all eight passengers were saved and reached shore. The point where the passengers and crew landed was some 40 miles (64 km) from Sydney, Nova Scotia. Local vessels took them there where they were well looked after.[10] Six passengers eventually reached Quebec (one couple stayed at Sydney), on 8 June in the shallop Jane.[10][9] Much of the cargo was also saved.[10] On 14 and 15 July 1823 two schooners, Margaret and Lively, brought portions to Quebec,[12] and on 14 October the immigrant brig Emperor Alexander, Watt, master, arrived from the wreck with the remainder of Constantia's stores and cargo.[13]
* SS Constantia (1890), of 772 GRT was launched at Björneborg, Finland in 1890. British owners purchased her in 1918 for use as a coaster; SM UB-21 torpedoed and sank her on 5 May 1918.
* SS Constantia (1945) was a Victory-class cargo ship, one of three that founded the South African Marine Corporation in 1946.

## Notes

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1. ^ Charles Campbell and his brother-in-law William Shepphard maintained a lumber and shipyard at Wolfe's Cove from 1819 to 1830.[4]
2. ^ Farr has 10 May.[1]

## Citations

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1. ^ a b c Farr (1950), p. 95.
2. ^ Library and Archives Canada Item: 13098: CONSTANTIA.
3. ^ Marcil (1995), p. 370.
4. ^ Marcil (1995), p. 40.
5. ^ "Ship-News". Bristol Mercury. No. 1704, Vol XXXIII. 18 November 1822. p. 3. Retrieved 2 February 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
6. ^ "First Spring Vessel for Quebec". Aris's Birmingham Gazette. No. 4235, Vol LXXXII. 20 January 1823. p. 2. Retrieved 2 February 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
7. ^ "Ship News". Bristol Mercury. 10 March 1823. p. 3. Retrieved 2 February 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
8. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 5816\. 1 July 1823. hdl:2027/uc1.c2735033.
9. ^ a b "Port de Quebec - Arrivages". Le Canadien (in French). No. 22, Vol.4. 18 June 1823. pp. 175–176. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
10. ^ a b c d "Ship Arrivals at the Port of Quebec, 1823 (May 09 - June 22)". The Ships List. Archived from the original on 23 January 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
11. ^ Rawlyk, George A. (1964–1965). "New England Origins of the Louisbourg Expedition of 1745" (PDF). Dalhousie Review. 44 (4): 481. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
12. ^ "Port de Quebec - Arrivages". Le Canadien (in French). No. 22, Vol.4. 16 July 1823. p. 208. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
13. ^ "Ship Arrivals at the Port of Quebec, 1823 (August 27 - November 26)". The Ships List. Archived from the original on 23 January 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.

## References

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* Farr, Grahame E., ed. (1950). Records of Bristol Ships, 1800-1838 (vessels over 150 tons). Vol. 15\. Bristol Record Society.
* Marcil, Eileen Reed (1995). The Charley-Man: a history of wooden shipbuilding at Quebec 1763-1893. Kingston, Ontario: Quarry. ISBN 1-55082-093-1.

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