At least three vessels have been named Lady Cathcart:

  • Lady Cathcart, of 400 tons (bm), was launched at Yarmouth in 1783. She sailed as a West Indiaman for Mangles & Co. and was lost on 2 April 1786 off the southwest part of Hispaniola; her crew was saved[1]
  • Lady Cathcart (1794 ship) was launched at Leith in 1794. Between 1797 and 1802 she served the British Royal Navy as the gun-brig HMS Meteor. She then returned to mercantile service and continued sailing to 1822.
  • Lady Cathcart, of 188 tons (bm), was launched at Greenock in 1828.[2] In 1830 Captain John Mackie sailed her from Greenock to Jamaica. She was destroyed by fire at Kingston on 24 May 1831.[3] On 15 July 1831 Lloyd's List reported that Lady Cathcart had caught fire at Kingston, Jamaica. She had sunk and would be sold.
  • Lady Cathcart, an iron screw steamer of 648grt, was built by Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen, and launched on 13 September 1882. She was wrecked at Johnshaven, Kincardine, on 21 April 1889 while sailing from Kennet Pans to Aberdeen with coal.[4]

Citations

  1. ↑ Lloyd's List №1780.
  2. ↑ Lloyd's Register (1831), Seq. №L23.
  3. ↑ "From Lloyd's List - July 15". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17162. 18 July 1831.
  4. ↑ Scottish Built Ships.
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