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Ann and Amelia (1781 ship)

History
United Kingdom
Name: Ann and Amelia
Owner: John Julius Angerstin, or Angerstein
Builder: Fishburn & Brodrick, Whitby
Launched: 1781
Fate: Sold June 1804
Royal Navy EnsignUK
Name: HMS Mediator
Acquired: June 1804 by purchase
Honours and
awards:		 Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Basque Roads 1809"
Fate: Expended as a fireship in the Basque Roads, April 1809
General characteristics
Tons burthen: 600, or 620, or 689 (bm)
Length:
  • 126 ft 11 in (38.7 m) (overall)
  • 102 ft 8 in (31.3 m) (keel)
  • 134 ft 8 in (41.0 m) (overall)
  • 109 ft 4 in (33.3 m) (keel; est)
Beam:
  • 33 ft 2 in (10.1 m)
  • 34 ft 5 in (10.5 m)
Depth of hold: 13 ft 1 in (4.0 m)
Sail plan: Ship
Complement: 254 (Frigate)
Armament:
  • Ann and Amelia: 20 × 9-pounder + 6 × 4-pounder guns
  • Frigate:
    • Lower deck: 26 × 18-pounder guns
    • Upper deck: 18 × 24-pounder carronades
  • Storeship:
    • Upper deck: 20 × 18-pounder guns
    • QD: 2 × 9-pounder guns

Ann and Amelia was a three-decker merchant ship launched in 1781. The British East India Company (EIC) twice employed her as an "extra ship", first when she went out to India to sail in trade in that market, and again in 1803 when she sailed back from India to Britain. On her return to Britain the Admiralty purchased her in June 1804 and converted her to a 44-gun fifth rate with the name HMS Mediator. The Navy converted her to a storeship in 1808, but then expended her as a fireship at the battle of the Basque Roads in April 1809.

After her launch at Whitby in 1781, Ann and Amelia, under the command of Captain John Popham, was at The Downs on 30 January 1782. She left British waters on 6 February 1781 for India. She was to remain there in the local and Far East trade.

She served as a transport or troopship to support Major-General Sir David Baird's expedition in 1800 to the Red Sea. Baird was in command of the Indian army that was going to Egypt to help General Ralph Abercromby expel the French there. Baird landed at Kosseir, on the Egyptian side of the Red Sea. He then led his troops army across the desert to Kena on the Nile, and then to Cairo. He arrived before Alexandria in time for the final operations.

In 1803 the EIC employed her again, this time to take a cargo from Bengal to Britain. She left Saugor on 29 January 1803. She reached Coringa on 27 February, and Madras on 11 March. She then reached St Helena on 10 July, and Yarmouth on 29 September, before arriving at The Downs on 3 October.

In June–July 1804 Mediator underwent fitting by Brent, of Rotherhithe. Then she underwent further fitting between July and October, but at Deptford Dockyard. Her measurements, and hence burthen, increased.


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