Prince George (1806 ship)

Prince George was launched in 1806 at Rotherhithe. She initially sailed as a West Indiaman. The French captured and released her in December 1814. She then sailed as a West Indiaman again, but towards the end of the 1820s started sailing to New South Wales. In 1834 she made a voyage under charter to the Hudson's Bay Company. Thereafter she traded between London and Quebec, and was last listed in 1854.

History
United Kingdom
Name:	Prince George
Builder:	Peter Everitt Mestaer, King and Queen Dock, Rotherhithe
Launched:	2 August 1806
Fate:	Last listed 1854
General characteristics
Tons burthen:	436,[1] or 436​^41⁄94,[2] or 437, or 450 (bm)
Armament:	1806:2 × 4-pounder guns[1] 1809:6 × 6-pounder guns

Career

Prince George first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in the 1806 volume with J.Bailey, master, Frier & Co., owner, changing to Rutherford & Co., and trade London–Jamaica.[1] She appears to have replaced an earlier Prince George that Rutherford owned,[3] and that next year appears with a new master, Pizzie, and owner, Boyman & Co., though still in the London–Jamaica trade.[4]

Year	Master	Owner	Trade	Source & notes
1810	J.Bailey	Rutherford & Co.	London–Jamaica	LR
1815	J.Bailey	Rutherford & Co.	London–Jamaica	LR

Between 27 and 29 December 1814, the French frigates Nymphe and Méduse captured a number of British merchant ships at 16°N 39°W.[Note 1] The vessels captured were Prince George, Dalley, master, Lady Caroline Barham, Boyce, master, and Potsdam, Cummings, master all three coming from London and bound to Jamaica; Flora, Ireland, master, from London to Martinique; Brazil Packet, from Madeira to the Brazils; and Rosario and Thetis, from Cape Verde. The French burnt all the vessels they captured, except Prince George. They put their prisoners into her and sent her off as a cartel to Barbados, which she reached on 10 January 1815.[7]

Year	Master	Owner	Trade	Source & notes
1820	T.Parker	Bailey	London–Jamaica	LR; thorough repair 1820
1825	T.Parker	Rutherford	London–Jamaica	LR; thorough repair 1820
1830	M.Andrews	Andrews	London–New South Wales	LR; thorough repair 1820 & damages repaired 1826
1833	M.Andrews D. Friend	Andrews Gould & Co.	London–New South Wales; London–Quebec?	Register of Shipping; repair 1820, damages repaired 1826, & small repairs
1834	D.Friend	Gould & Co.	London–Hudson's Bay	LR;

In 1834 the Hudson's Bay Company chartered Prince George for a voyage from London to York Factory,[8] and back to London. She may have made a second such voyage in 1837.

Year	Master	Owner	Trade	Source
1835	D.Friend	D.Gould & Co.	London–Hudson's Bay London–Virginia	LR
1837	D.Friend	Gould & Co.	London–Hudson's Bay	LR; small repairs 1835
1840	D.Friend	Gould & Co.	London–Quebec	LR; small repairs 1835 & damages repaired 1838
1845	D.Friend	Gould & Co.	London–Quebec	LR; small repairs 1835, damages repaired 1842, & small repairs 1843
1850	Fenner	Gould & Co.	London–Quebec	LR; small repairs 1845 & 1848

Year	Master	Owner	Trade	Source
1856	J.Young	Kirk	London	LR
1860	J.Young	Kirk		LR

Fate

Prince George was last listed in 1863 with data unchanged since 1860.

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

1. The news item in Lloyd's List (LL) gave the names of the frigates as Nymphe and Modeste, but there was no Modeste in service with the French Navy at that time,[5] but there was a Méduse,[6] and she was operating with Nymphe.

Citations

1. LR (1806), Supple. pages "P", Seq.№P66.
2. Hackman (2001), p. 306.
3. LR (1806), Seq№500.
4. '"LR (1807), Seq.№P498.
5. Winfield & Roberts (2015).
6. Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 149.
7. LL 8 March 1814, №4851.
8. Dobson (2009), p. 120.

References

• Dobson, David (2009). Ships from Scotland to North America, 1830-1860. 2. Genealogical Publishing. ISBN 9780806353807.
• Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.
• Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781848322042.