Charlotte

Ship Details

Rig

Barque

Built

1784

Built In

Tonnage

338

Demise

lost off Newfoundland in 1818

Description

Charlotte was an English merchant ship built in the River Thames in 1784 and chartered in 1786 to carry convicts as part of the First Fleet to New South Wales. She returned to Britain from Botany Bay via China, where she picked up a cargo for the British East India Company. Charlotte then spent most of the rest of her career in the London-Jamaica trade. She may have been lost off Newfoundland in 1818; in any case, she disappears from the lists by 1821.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_(1784_ship)
brief encounter of voyage and 1791 escape with Wm & Mary Bryant in an open boat, capture and return from CGH to england in HMS Gorgon;
"Escape from Botany Bay, 1791, being a Memorandum by James Martin, being reprinted, Canberra, 1991;

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there was a convict on the ship Charlotte called Thomas Akers and he is related to me

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