Queen Charlotte (ship)

A number of sailing ships have been named Queen Charlotte.

Naval vessels

• HMS Queen Charlotte - four vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named Queen Charlotte
• Hired armed cutter Queen Charlotte served the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and was involved in an heroic single ship action against a larger French vessel.
• HMCS Queen Charlotte is the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve Division in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

British merchant ships

• Queen Charlotte (1781 ship) - Built in France and taken in prize c.1781, probably on the Jamaica Station. Renamed on purchase. Appears between 1781 and 1783 in Lloyd’s Register, briefly as a privateer and then a transport, under the ownership of Fraser & Co. Sold to Butler & Co., with James Pollock, master. The British East India Company (EIC) may have chartered her between 1786 and 1796.
• Queen Charlotte (1785 ship) - Performed a circumnavigation of the world (1785-88), and two voyages under charter to the EIC.
• Queen Charlotte (1812 ship) merchant vessel Adams whose name was changed when she became HMS Queen Charlotte. In time she became the USS Queen Charlotte, before returning to mercantile trade and being abandoned in 1844.
• Queen Charlotte (1813 ship) - launched in Australia and made two voyages on each of which she returned one convict from Bengal or Mauritius.

Falmouth packet ships to North America

• Queen Charlotte made one voyage to Charleston, South Carolina. A French vessel captured her on 1 September 1781 off Virginia.
• Queen Charlotte made several voyages across the Atlantic between 1788 and 1793. On her last voyage the French sloop Cerf chased her into New York.
• Queen Charlotte, of 185 tons (bm), was launched at Emsworth in 1801. She was armed with ten 9-pounder guns.^[1] The Post Office ceased to hire her in November 1817. Her owners, Bullock & Co., continued to sail her until 1830. She then disappears from Lloyd's Register.
• Queen Charlotte made several voyages across the Atlantic between late 1802 and 16 May 1805 when the French privateer Hirondelle captured her at 47°20′N 12°20′W / 47.333°N 12.333°W after an engagement that lasted two hours.
• Queen Charlotte, of 180 tons (bm), was launched in 1807 at Falmouth.^[2] She was armed with twelve 6-pounder guns and made only one or two voyages across the Atlantic before in 1812 she switched to the Lisbon route. On 16 January 1814 she was at San Sebastián when a gale drove her on the rocks, wrecking her completely. Captain Mudge (her master and owner), and 16 of his crew died; 15 crew-members were saved.

Citations

1. Lloyd's Register (1814), seq. no. Q17.
2. Lloyd's Register (1814), seq. no. Q18.