- Career
- Fate
- Notes, citations, and references
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United Kingdom | United Kingdom|civil}} | Ship name = Severn | Ship namesake =River Severn | Ship owner = | Ship operator = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder =Hilhouse, Sons and Co.,[1] Bristol, Gloucestershire | Ship original cost = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched =1806 | 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 =Abandoned at sea late 1838 | Ship status = | Ship notes =
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Header caption= | Ship type= | [2][1] or 478{{small>{{frac|50|94}}}}[2] (bm) | 113|ft|5|in|m|1|abbr=on}}[2] | 31|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}}[2] | Ship hold depth= | Ship draught= | Ship propulsion=Sail | Ship sail plan=Ship-rigged; later barque | Ship speed= | Ship complement=30[2] | Ship armament=12 × 9&4-pounder guns[2] | Ship notes=Two decks, three masts, square stem, quarter galleries, and figure head[2]
}} | Severn was launched at Bristol in 1806. She spent most of her career as a West Indiaman. In 1813 she ran down and sank another merchantman. In late 1838 Severn{{'}}s crew had to abandon her in the Atlantic in a sinking condition. CareerCaptain Richard Drew acquired a letter of marque on 5 April 1810.[3] On 11 February 1813 Severn ran down and sank Wargrave was run down and sunk by Severn. {{HMS|Cressy|1810|6}} rescued Wargrave{{'}}s crew. Wargrave, Ostler, master, was on a voyage from Dublin to Surinam.[4]{{refn|Wargrave, of 175 tons (bm), had been launched in Denmark in 1801.[5]|group=Note}} | Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Notes and source |
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| 1806 | Etheridge | Protheroe | Bristol–Jamaica | Lloyd's Register (LR; 1806)[6] | | 1810 | J. Drew | R. Claxton | Bristol–Nevis | LR | | 1815 | J. Arew | R. Claxton | Bristol–Nevis | LR | | 1820 | E.J. Power | R. Claxton | Bristol–Nevis | Good repair in 1815; LR | | 1825 | Christopher Claxton | R. Claxton | Bristol–Nevis | Good repair in 1815 & small repair 1821; LR | | 1830 | F. Foster | J. Irvine | Bristol–Trinidad | Thorough repair in 1828; LR | | 1835 | Brown | J.Irving | Bristol–Quebec | LR | | 1838 | Brown | J.Irving | Bristol–New York | Damages repaired in 1836 and small repairs in 1837; LR | |
Other masters: Christopher Claxton; Gabriel Forster (9 Sept. 1825); Richard Radford (3 Feb. 1831); Thomas Sandon (24 Oct. 1831); Adam Dixon (25 July 1833 (London)); Charles Timothy Stewart (25 Aug. 1834 (London)); Thomas Brown (26 Mar. 1835); Charles Skirling (29 Sept. 1834); Edward Purse (1 May 1837); and William Johns (30 August 1838).[2]FateIn late 1838 her crew abandoned Severn in the Atlantic Ocean at {{coord|48|N|31|W}} as she had 16 feet of water in her hold. She was on a voyage from Miramichi, New Brunswick, to Bristol. Russell, of New York, which was sailing from New Orleans to Havre, rescued Severn{{'}}s crew.[7] Notes, citations, and referencesNotes1. ^Hackman (2001), p.312.
2. ^1 2 3 4 5 Farr (1950), p.38-9.
3. ^1 2 3 Letter of Marque, p.86 - accessed 25 July 2017.
4. ^[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735026?urlappend=%3Bseq=89 Lloyd's List №4722.]
5. ^[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005676393?urlappend=%3Bseq=524 Lloyd's Register (1810), Seq.№W29.]
6. ^[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005667103?urlappend=%3Bseq=707 Lloyd's Register (1806), Supple. pages "S", Seq.№S17.]
7. ^"Ship News." Times [London, England] 22 Dec. 1838: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 11 Aug. 2018.
Citations{{reflist|30em}}References- Farr, Grahame E., ed. (1950) Records of Bristol Ships, 1800-1838 (vessels over 150 tons). (Bristol Record Society), Vol. 15.
- {{cite book |last=Hackman |first=Rowan |year=2001 |title=Ships of the East India Company |location=Gravesend, Kent |publisher=World Ship Society |ISBN=0-905617-96-7 |ref=harv}}
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