Atlas (1811 ship)
For other ships with the same name, see Atlas (ship).
| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name: | Atlas |
| Owner: | T. Barrick[1] |
| Builder: | T. Barrick, Whitby[2] |
| Launched: | 1811 |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| Tons burthen: | 501[1] (bm) |
| Length: | 115 feet 6 inches (35.2 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 32 feet 2 inches (9.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
| Armament: | 10 × 18-pounder guns "of the New Construction"[1] |
Atlas was a 501-ton sailing ship that was built at Whitby and launched in 1811. In 1816 she transported convicts to New South Wales, and disappeared off the coast of India in 1817.
- Convict voyage (1816)
Under the command of Walter Meriton, she sailed from Portsmouth, England on the 23 January 1816, and arrived at Port Jackson on 22 July.[3] She embarked 194 male convicts, seven of whom died on the voyage.[Note 1] A detachment of 34 men of the 89th Regiment of Foot provided the guard.
Atlas left Port Jackson on 12 September bound for Batavia.[5]
- Disappearance
On 29 July 1817, Atlas dropped the pilot at Sandheads, at the mouth of the River Ganges, as she sailed from Calcutta to London.[Note 2] She was not heard from again.[Note 3]
Notes, citations, and references
- Notes
- ↑ The numbers in Bateson clearly exhibit some typographical errors. He has Atlas embarking 294 convicts, and landing 187, with only one convict having died on the voyage.[4]
- ↑ Hackman confuses the fate of this Atlas with that of a different Atlas.[6]
- ↑ Lloyd's List gives the master's name as Moncur,[7] but all other sources give it as Meriton.
- Citations
- 1 2 3 Lloyd's Register (1812), supplement seq. no. A161.
- 1 2 Weatherill (1908), p.122.
- ↑ Bateson (1959), pp.290-1.
- ↑ Bateson (1959), p.327.
- ↑ "Arrival of Vessels at Port Jackson, and their Departure". Australian Town and Country Journal, Saturday 3 January 1891, p.16. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
- ↑ Hackman (2001), p. 252.
- ↑ Lloyd's List, 31 July 1818, n° 5302.
- References
- Bateson, Charles (1959). The Convict Ships. Brown, Son & Ferguson. OCLC 3778075.
- Hackman, Rowan (2001) Ships of the East India Company. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society). ISBN 0-905617-96-7
- Weatherill, Richard (1908) The ancient port of Whitby, and its ships. (Whitby: Horne & Son.)
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