Three Sisters (1788 ship)

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History
Great Britain
NameThree Sisters
BuilderJohn Perry, Blackwall
Launched2 August 1788
FateWrecked February 1799
General characteristics
Tons burthen330,[1] or 333[2] (bm)
Armament
  • 1796: 12 × 6-pounder guns
  • 1797: 8 × 6-pounder + 4 × 4-pounder guns

Three Sisters was launched in 1788 as a West Indiaman. In 1795 she made one voyage to Bengal for the British East India Company (EIC). She then returned to the West Indies trade and was lost in February 1799 on her way to Barbados from London.

Career[]

Three Sisters first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1789.[1] (LR for 1788 is not available online.)

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1789 M.Johnson Mangles London–Jamaica LR
1795 M.Johnson
J.Hall 		Mangles
Calvert & Co. 		London–Jamaica
London–East Indies 		LR

Three Sisters sailed for Bengal on 30 August 1795.[2] On 3 November she was reported at

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9°48′N 20°49′W / 9.800°N 20.817°W / 9.800; -20.817 on her way to st Helena.[3]

At the time the EIC had a monopoly on trade between Great Britain and India or China. It is not clear why Three Sisters had EIC approval for the voyage. She is not among the vessels on the list of vessels that the EIC had chartered to bring rice back from Bengal on behalf of the British government.

Main article: Transport vessels for the British Government's importation of rice from Bengal (1795–1796)

However, she was on an authorized voyage. She is listed among the vessels which had arrived in Britain with a cargo on behalf of the EIC.[4]

Three Sisters, Graham Steel, master, left Bengal on 2 August 1796. She reached the Cape on 4 November and St Helena on 30 November; she was at Falmouth on 5 February 1797.[5]

On her return from Bengal Three Sisters returned to the West Indies trade.

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1797 J.Hall
W.Alitson 		Calvert & Co. London–Bengal
London–Martinique 		LR
1799 Goodwin Latham & Son London–Denemara

Fate[]

Lloyd's List reported that Three Sisters, Goodwin, master, was on her way from London to Barbados when she was lost Orchard's Bay in the Isle of Wight. Three men had drowned.[6]

Citations and references[]

Citations

  1. ^ a b LR (1789), Seq.No.T148.
  2. ^ a b Hackman (2001), p. 204.
  3. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (2796). 23 February 1796. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  4. ^ Hardy (1800), p. 222.
  5. ^ British Library – Three Sisters.
  6. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (3054). 5 February 1799.

References

  • Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.
  • Hardy, Charles (1800). A Register of Ships, Employed in the Service of the Hon. the United East India Company, from the Union of the Two Companies, in 1707, to the Year 1760: Specifying the Number of Voyages, Tonnage, Commanders, and Stations. To which is Added, from the Latter Period to the Present Time, the Managing Owners, Principal Officers, Surgeons, and Pursers; with the Dates of Their Sailing and Arrival: Also, an Appendix, Containing Many Particulars, Interesting to Those Concerned in the East India Commerce. Charles Hardy.
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