HMS Abergavenny (1795)
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| Name: | Earl of Abergavenny |
| Namesake: | Earl of Abergavenny |
| Owner: | William Dent (principal managing owner) |
| Ordered: | 5 December 1787 |
| Builder: | Joseph Graham, Harwich |
| Laid down: | 8 March 1788 |
| Launched: | 24 August 1789 |
| Fate: | Sold to the Royal Navy in 1795 |
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| Name: | HMS Abergavenny |
| Namesake: | Abergavenny in Monmouthshire |
| Builder: | Thomas Pitched, Northfleet |
| Acquired: | 1795 |
| Fate: | Sold 1807 |
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| Tons burthen: | 1182 93⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 41 ft 1 1⁄2 in (12.5 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 17 ft 0 in (5.2 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
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Indiaman: 99 men Fourth rate: 324 men |
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Indiaman: 99 men
HMS Abergavenny was originally the Earl of Abergavenny, an East Indiaman sailing for the British East India Company (EIC). As an East Indiaman she made two trips to China between 1790 and 1794. The Royal Navy bought her in 1795, converted her to a 56-gun fourth-rate ship of the line, and renamed her. One year later the East India Company built a new and much larger ship which was also named the Earl of Abergavenny and which sank off Weymouth Bay in 1805. HMS Abergavenny was sold for breaking in 1807.
Captain John Wordsworth completed two return voyages to China and back between January 1790 and September 1794.
On her first voyage Earl of Abergavenny departed the Downs on 30 January 1790, arriving Bombay, India on 5 June 1790. She left there on 8 August arrived in Penang on 25 August. She reached Whampoa on 3 October. For her return she crossed Second Bar on 4 February 1791 and reached St Helena on 17 August. She arrived back at the Downs on 17 August.
On her second voyage she traveled with a letter of marque dated 23 April 1793. This authorized her to take prizes should the opportunity arise.
She left Portsmouth on 22 May 1793. She was part of a convoy that also included the East Indiamen Prince William, Lord Thurlow, William Pitt, Barwell, Earl of Oxford, Osterley, Fort William, London, Glatton, Houghton, Marquis of Landsdown, Hillsborough, Ceres, and Pigot, amongst numerous other vessels, merchant and military, most of the non-Indiamen travelling to the Mediterranean.
Earl of Abergavenny reached Manila on 11 November. From there she sailed to China, reaching Whampoa on 20 December. At Whampoa that December were several East Indiamen that on their return to Britain the Admiralty would purchase: Royal Charlotte, Ceres, Warley, and Hindostan. The British Government had chartered Hindostan to take Lord Macartney to China in an unsuccessful attempt to open diplomatic and commercial relations with the Chinese empire.
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