History
Great Britain
NameDuchess of Rutland
NamesakeDuchess of Rutland
BuilderDublin,[1] Ireland[2]
Launched1786[2]
Captured1797
General characteristics
Tons burthen
Complement12[3]

Duchess of Rutland (or Dutchess of Rutland) was launched in 1786 in Dublin. She carried passengers between England and Ireland. In 1793 she apparently transferred to Liverpool and sailed from there as a West Indiaman. She was on a voyage to Barbados when a French privateer captured her in 1797.

Career

Duchess of Rutland first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1789.[2] She appears to have carried passengers between England and Ireland, with her owners being a group of Holyhead packet captains.[3]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1789 B.Stewart Cunningham Greenock–Ireland LR
1792 B.Stewart Cunningham Greenock–Ireland LR

Duchess of Rutland was last listed in LR in 1793. Dutchess of Rugland apparently had been sold to owners in Liverpool, who had her lengthened. She appeared in the Register of Shipping in 1800. It showed her master as T. Keen, owner J.Jackson, and trading out of Liverpool.[1] However, this represented stale data as Duchess of Rutland had been captured several years earlier.

Fate

Duchess of Rutland, Keen, master, was sailing from Liverpool to Barbados when in late 1797 she encountered the French privateer Vengeance, a cutter of 20 guns and 200 men. Vengeance captured Duchess of Rutland at 46°41′N 21°31′W / 46.683°N 21.517°W / 46.683; -21.517.[4][lower-alpha 1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Vengeance was probably a schooner from Saint-Domingue that had been commissioned in February 1797. The USS Trumbull captured her in August 1800.[5]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 RS (1800), Seq.No.D290.
  2. 1 2 3 4 LR (1789), Seq.No.D457.
  3. 1 2 Joyce (1893), p. 248.
  4. ↑ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 2973. 5 December 1797. hdl:2027/uc1.c3049069.
  5. ↑ Demerliac (1999), p. 294, n°2706.

References

  • Demerliac, Alain (1999). La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 à 1799 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782906381247. OCLC 492783890.
  • Joyce, Herbert (1893). The History of the Post Office from Its Establishment Down to 1836. R. Bentley & Son.
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