Mornington (1799 ship)
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Mornington |
| Namesake: | Possibly Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley |
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| Builder: | J. Gilmore & Co., Calcutta, India |
| Launched: | 1799, or 1800 |
| Fate: | Burnt 1815 |
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| Tons burthen: | 668, or 700, or 750, or 768, or 770, or 799, or 800 (bm) |
| Complement: | 120 |
| Armament: | 16 x 9-pounder guns, |
Mornington was a British merchant vessel built of teak and launched in 1799 at Calcutta. She made three voyages under charter to the British East India Company (EIC). On the third French privateers twice captured her and Royal Navy vessels twice recaptured her. A fire destroyed her in 1815.
Under the command of Captain James Carnegy (or Carnageie), Mornington left Calcutta on 30 December 1799. She was at Saugor on 23 January 1800, reached St Helena on 8 June, and arrived at The Downs on 9 September.
On 3 December 1800 Mornington sailed from England for Bombay and Bengal.
Captain George Kelso was in the Hugli River on 19 May 1801. On 23 June Mornington was at Kedgeree, and on 19 July Saugor. By 30 October she had reached the Cape of Good Hope, and by 20 November she was at St Helena. She arrived at The Downs on 19 January 1802.
The "United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies" offered 28,966 bags of rice for sale on 25 March. The rice had come in on Travers, Melville Castle, Skelton Castle, and Mornington.
Mornington enters Lloyd's Register in the supplemental pages to the 1802 volume with "Kelsa", master, and "Fairly", owner. She is listed as being of 750 tons and three years old.
Captain Kelso sailed for Madras on 16 May 1804. She left Bengal on 5 July in company with the country ship Anna, and Maria, Northampton, and Princess Mary. The French privateer Nicholas Surcouf in Caroline captured Mornington on 14 August 1804. However, HMS Phaeton recaptured Mornington, before Captain Fallonard of the brig Île de France recaptured Mornington. Fallonard took Mornington, of 600 tons and six guns, into Port Nord-Ouest. The British recaptured Mornington yet again.Mornington was reported at St Helena on 6 October, and completed her voyage on 18 December 1804.
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