- Citations and references
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=title | Ship country=United Kingdom | United Kingdom|civil}} | Ship name = Lord Melville | Ship namesake = | Ship owner = Campbell, Sen and Co., Glasgow[1] | Ship operator = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = Quebec | Ship original cost = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = 1807 | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship renamed = | Ship struck = | Ship reinstated = | Ship honours = | Ship honors = | Ship captured = | Ship fate = Burnt at sea 1809 | Ship status = | Ship notes =
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}} | Lord Melville was launched at Quebec in 1807. She enters the Register of Shipping in 1809 with Cameron, master, Campbell, owner, and trade London−Saint Vincent.[1]Lord Melville, Brown, master, was sailing from St Vincent to Glasgow when a fire on 1 April 1809 in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|55|07|N|26|36|W}}) destroyed her.[2][3] The bosun had gone to the spirits room with a lighted candle, igniting the fumes and starting the fire. He died in the incident. The remaining 26 people on board took to her boats and were able to leave before she blew up.[4]Citations and referencesCitations1. ^1 2 [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015024495320?urlappend=%3Bseq=348 Register of Shipping (1809), Seq.№L490.]
2. ^{{cite journal |url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044105232938;view=1up;seq=105 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=4363 |date=20 June 1809 }}
3. ^{{cite journal |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044105232938?urlappend=%3Bseq=109 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=4365 |date=27 June 1809 }}
4. ^1 Grocott (1797), pp.277–8.
References- {{cite book |last=Grocott| first=Terence| title=Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras|publisher=Chatham|location=London|year=1997|isbn=1861760302}}
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