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词条 Royal Charlotte (1774 ship)
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Royal Charlotte was launched by Bombay Dockyard in 1774 as a country ship (British ships sailing between India and China). She made one voyage for the British East India Company in 1796 when she sailed from Calcutta to Britain. There she took on British registry. She sailed back to Calcutta where a lightning bolt ignited her magazine, destroying her in 1797.

Career

Royal Charlotte was among the country ships reported at Canton in 1789.[2]

She made one trip for the EIC, under Captain William Greenway, who left Calcutta on 31 January 1796, reached Saint Helena on 8 May, and The Downs on 3 August.[3] After she reached Britain she took on British registry on 4 October 1796.[4]

Royal Charlotte first appears in Lloyd's List for 1797 with W. Smith, master, and Higgins, owner. Her trade is London—East Indies.[5] Captain William Logie Smith received a letter of marque dated 30 November 1796 for the Royal Charlotte.[6]

Fate

On 11 October 1797, Royal Charlotte was anchored off Culpee, an anchorage towards Calcutta, and closer than Saugor. She was soon to sail for London when a storm came up. At about 2:24 a.m. a lightning bolt hit her foremast and travelled down to her magazine, where it ignited 500 barrels of gunpowder destined for the Cape of Good Hope. {{ship||Britannia|1777 EIC ship|2}}, which was anchored nearby and which had a like quantity of gunpowder and a similar storage arrangement, observed the disaster; the next day the crew landed their powder to enable the magazine to be more intelligently located.[13]

Although Captain Smith and a few of his officers and crew were ashore, the explosion killed 20 European crewmen, 66 lascars, and some 50 women and children who were traveling as passengers.[7][8] Lloyd's List reported on 24 April 1798 that "The Royal Charlotte, Extra Ship, from Bengal, is blown up with all the crew, at Calpee in Bengal River."[9] The EIC valued her cargo at £3,695.[10]

William Logie Smith was in the country service of the EIC when he died in Bengal in March 1803.

Citations and references

Citations
1. ^1 Hackman (2001), p.242.
2. ^Maeres (1791), p.318.
3. ^British Library: Royal Charlotte (4).
4. ^House (1814), p.86.
5. ^1 2 [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004281278?urlappend=%3Bseq=295 Lloyd's Register (1797), Seq.№184.]
6. ^1 2 3 "Register of Letters of Marque against France 1793-1815"; p.85 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709083440/http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.htm |date=July 9, 2015}}
7. ^1 Selections (1865), pp.486-487.
8. ^Grocott (1997), pp,61-2.
9. ^[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015073721238?urlappend=%3Bseq=279 Lloyd's List, №2997.]
10. ^Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the present state of the affairs of the East India Company, together with the minutes of evidence, an appendix of documents, and a general index, (1830), Vol. 2, p.977.
References
  • Grocott, Terence (1997) Shipwrecks of the revolutionary & Napoleonic eras (Chatham). {{ISBN|1-86176-030-2}}
  • Hackman, Rowan (2001) Ships of the East India Company. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society). {{ISBN|0905617967}}
  • House of Commons, Parliament, Great Britain (1814), Minutes of the Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on Petitions Relating to East-India-Built Shipping. (H.M. Stationery Office)
  • Maeres, John ( 1791) Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the N. W. Coast of America: With an Introductory Narrative of a Voyage Performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the Ship Nootka. To which are Annexed, Observations on the Probable Existence of a North West Passage. And Some Account of the Trade Between the North West Coast of America and China; and the Latter Country and Great Britain, Vol. 2. (J. Walter).
  • Phipps, John, (of the Master Attendant's Office, Calcutta), (1840) A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time .... (Scott).
  • Selections from Calcutta gazettes of the years 1784 [-1823 inclusive] showing the political & social condition of the English in India ... (1865). (O.T. Cutter).
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