Betsey (1801 ship)
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| Name: | Betsey |
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| Builder: | Edward Bacon |
| Launched: | 22 December 1801, Calcutta, India |
| Renamed: | Marquis of Wellington, c.1814. |
| Fate: | Wrecked March 1818 at Margate |
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| Tons burthen: | 630, or 636 34⁄94, or 642, or 653 (bm) |
| Length: | 124 ft 9 in (38.0 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 34 ft 11 in (10.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
| Complement: | 53 |
| Armament: | 12 guns |
Betsey (or Betsy), was launched in 1801 at Calcutta, India. She made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC) as Betsey. Around 1814 she sailed to England and was sold to English owners who renamed her Marquis of Wellington. As Marquis of Wellington she made a second voyage for the EIC after transporting convicts to New South Wales. She was returning to England in 1818 when she was wrecked near Margate.
Edward Bacon (of Hudson & Bacon), Calcutta, in 1801 launched Betsey for his own account. On 10 February 1802 Captain W.W. Bampton (or Brampton) left Calcutta for London with a cargo of rice. Betsey passed Saugor on 10 March and reached St Helena on 30 June. She arrived at Deptford on 20 September.
On 6 December Betsey sailed from London to return to the local trade in India.
In 1814 or so her owners sold her and her new owners, in London, named her Marquis of Wellington. She was admitted to the Registry of Great Britain on 6 May 1814. She first appears in Lloyd’s Register in 1814, with owner D. Isbister & Co.
Marquis of Wellington made one trip for the EIC in which she transported convicts to New South Wales and then carried a cargo back from China to Portsmouth. On this voyage she made the first recorded European contact with Mokil Atoll (Mwoakilloa Atoll).
Under the command of George Betham (or Bitham), she sailed from Portsmouth, England, on 1 September 1814. On 11 November Marquis of Wellington reached Rio de Janeiro. She then stayed there for some three weeks. Marquis of Wellington arrived at Port Jackson on 27 January 1815.
She had embarked 200 or 199 male convicts, of whom two or one died. Sources agree that 198 landed. A detachment from the 46th Regiment of Foot provided the guard; the regiment was transferring to Australia to replace the 73rd Regiment of Foot (1st Battalion Highlanders).
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