Olive (1802 ship)

British/French naval vessel

History
United Kingdom
Name| Olive
Builder| J. Gilmour & Co., Calcutta[1]
Launched| 5 May 1802
Fate| Captured June 1806
France
Name| Olive
Acquired| 1806 by capture
Decommissioned| March 1807
General characteristics
Displacement| 600 tons (unladen) or 900 (laden)[a]
Tons burthen| 400,[2] or 420[1] (bm)

Olive was launched at Calcutta in 1802. The French captured her in 1806 and the French Navy took her into service under her existing name. She was decommissioned in March 1807.

## Career

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J. Gilmour & Co. launched Olive at Calcutta on 5 May 1802.[1][4] In 1803 her master was H. Matthew.[2]

The French frigate Sémillante captured Olive on 19 June 1806.[1] Olive was only one of several ships that Sémillante captured on her cruise.[5]

Olive was commissioned on 6 December 1806 at Île de France as a flute. Later, Olive was reported to have been there on 10 January 1807, and to have been captured in the Red Sea.[6] She was decommissioned in March 1807.[7]

Olive apparently returned to British hands and reappeared as a transport at the British invasion of Java (1811).

Main article: Transport vessels for the British invasion of Java (1811)

She then disappeared again from readily available sources.

## Notes

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1. ^ The source of this data is probably conflating the current Olive with another vessel, possibly of Spanish origin.[3]

## Citations

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1. ^ a b c d Phipps (1840), p. 99.
2. ^ a b East-India register and directory (1803), p.98.
3. ^ Demerliac (2003), p. 153, n°1263.
4. ^ "Ship News". Morning Chronicle. No. 10424\. London. 16 October 1802.
5. ^ Lloyd's List №4127.
6. ^ Lloyd's List №4153.
7. ^ Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 380.

## References

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* Demerliac, Alain (2003). La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 A 1815 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-903179-30-1.
* Phipps, John (1840). A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time ... Scott.
* Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.