Boyd (1783 ship)
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The gunpowder stores blowing up on Boyd, Steele (1889)
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| Name: | Boyd |
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| Builder: | Hill, Limehouse,River Thames |
| Launched: | 1783 |
| Fate: | Captured January 1797 |
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 France
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| Acquired: | January 1797 by capture |
| Fate: | Sold 1802–03 |
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| Name: | Boyd |
| Owner: | Boddington |
| Acquired: | 1802–03 by purchase |
| Fate: | Burnt December 1809 |
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| Tons burthen: | 392, or 395, or 400, or 407, or 425 54⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | 109 feet 8 inches (33.4 m) (overall); 87 feet 0 inches (26.5 m) |
| Beam: | 29 feet 8 inches (9.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
| Complement: | 28 |
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Boyd was a brigantine built in 1783 on the Thames, England. She originally traded as a West Indiaman, sailing between London and Saint Kitts. Then between 1795 and 1797 she performed a voyage for the British East India Company (EIC). The French captured her as she was homeward bound, but her owners repurchased her in 1803. In 1804 the French captured her again, but the Royal Navy recaptured her and returned her to her owners. In 1809 she transported convicts to New South Wales for the British government. After delivering the convicts she sailed to New Zealand where Maori warriors attacked her, killing, and eating, almost her entire crew and passengers. They then burnt her.
Boyd first appears in the supplemental pages of Lloyd's Register for 1783. Her master is James Young, her owner, "Capt. & Co.", and her trade London — St Kitts.
Lloyd's List reported on 19 September 1794 that Boyd, Young master, which had sailed from St Kitts had joined the Jamaica convoy after having separated from the Leeward Islands convoy in a violent gale on the Newfoundland Banks.
In 1795, Lloyd's Register reported that Boyd's master was G. Sargent, her owner Boddington, and her trade London — St Kitts. An addendum to the entry showed her master changing to R. Young, and her trade to London — E. Indies.
She underwent a good repair in 1795, and before the EIC chartered Boyd as an "extra" ship they had her inspected and measured. The EIC records describe her as a three-decker vessel with ten gun ports on each side.
Her captain for the voyage was Robert Young. On 25 March 1795, he received a letter of marque.
Captain Young left Portsmouth on 8 July 1795, bound for St Helena and Bengal. On 5 September she reached Rio de Janeiro, and on 10 November St Helena. By 24 December she was at the Cape, and she arrived at Calcutta on 31 March 1796. Homeward bound Calcutta she passed Kedgeree on 22 June, reached the Cape on 29 September, and St Helena on 28 October. On 8 January 1797 as she approached England she had an engagement with a French ship. Her captors were reported to have taken her into Nantes.
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