Earl St. Vincent (1800 ship)

Merchant ship built at Topsham, England in 1800

For other ships with the same name, see Earl St Vincent (ship).

History
Great Britain
Name| Earl St. Vincent
Namesake| John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
Owner|

* T. Hayman[1][2]
* Buckle[3]

Builder| Robert Davy, Topsham[2]
Launched| 29 September 1800[2]
Fate| Last listed 1833
General characteristics
Tons burthen| 412,[4] or 423,[1] or 42313⁄94[2] or 432 (bm)
Length| 112 ft 6 in (34.3 m)[2] (keel)
Beam| 28 ft 9 in (8.8 m)[2]
Propulsion| Sail

Earl St. Vincent was a merchant ship built at Topsham, England in 1800. Between 1818 and 1823 she made three voyages transporting convicts from England and Ireland to Australia.

## Career

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Earl St Vincent enters Lloyd's Register in 1800 with Gottberry, master.[1]

Under the command of Samuel Simpson and surgeon John Johnson, she left Cork, Ireland on 7 August 1818, and arrived in Sydney on 16 December 1818.[4] She embarked 160 male convicts and had three deaths en route.[5] Earl St. Vincent departed Port Jackson on 2 February 1819, bound for Calcutta.

On her second convict voyage under the command of Samuel Simpson and surgeon Patrick Hill, she left Portsmouth, England on 12 April 1820, and arrived in Sydney on 16 August.[4] She embarked 160 male convicts and no deaths en route.[5] Earl St. Vincent departed Port Jackson on 21 September 1820, bound for Calcutta.[6]

Under the command of Peter Reeves and surgeon Robert Tainsh on her third convict voyage, she left Cork, Ireland on 29 April and arrived in Sydney on 9 September 1823.[7] She embarked 157 male convicts and one convict died during the voyage.[8] Earl St. Vincent departed Port Jackson on 16 October 1823, bound for Batavia.

Year  | Master  | Owner  | Trade

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1825  | Reeves  | Buckle & Co.  | London — New South Wales
1830  | Middleton  | Mount & Co.  | London — Sierra Leone
1833  | Middleton  | Mount & Co.  | Liverpool — Saint Petersburg

## Citations

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1. ^ a b c Lloyd's Register (1800), Supplemental pages.
2. ^ a b c d e f Hackman (2001), p.271.
3. ^ Register of Shipping (1824), Seq.№43.
4. ^ a b c Bateson (1959), pp.292-3.
5. ^ a b Bateson (1959), p.328.
6. ^ "Ship News". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Saturday 23 September 1820, p.4. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
7. ^ Bateson (1959), pp.294-5.
8. ^ Bateson (1959), p.329.

## References

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* Bateson, Charles (1959). The Convict Ships, 1787-1868. Brown, Son & Ferguson. OCLC 3778075.
* Hackman, Rowan (2001) Ships of the East India Company. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society). ISBN 0-905617-96-7