Santa Anna (1806 ship)
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| Name: | Santa Anna |
| Builder: | Brazil |
| Captured: | 18 June 1806 |
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| Acquired: | 18 June 1806 by capture |
| Fate: | Wrecked 1812 |
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| Tons burthen: | 220 or 225 (bm) |
Santa Anna was a Spanish brig that a British privateer captured in 1806. Her new owners then employed Santa Anna as a whaler. She wrecked in the Straits of Timor in 1812.
On 18 June 1806 the British privateer Port au Prince's boats entered San Blas Bay (possibly San Blas, Nayarit), and captured Santa Anna. Santa Anna was a "corbetta" under the command of Captain Francisco Puertas and carrying a cargo of pitch, tar, and cedar boards to Guayaquil. The next day Captain Isaac Duck of Port au Prince sent 20 of his Spanish prisoners ashore in his longboat. Two Spaniards and two negro slaves joined Port au Prince. The slaves belonged to Santa Anna's owner and legally Duck should have sent them ashore too, but they pleaded not to go have to go ashore and Duck yielded to their pleas. Duck then put Mr. Charles Maclaren in command of Santa Anna and gave him a crew of 12 men, plus a Spaniard, to navigate her to Port Jackson.
Santa Anna arrived at Port Jackson on 24 October 1806. There the Vice admiralty court condemned her and Maclaren sold her for £3200. A list of ship arrivals and departures gives the cargo of the "Santa Anna prize" as "sugar, etc." The last of her cargo was sold on 8 December 1806, and it included a "bale of chillies".
Lord, Kable, & Underwood purchased her for use as a whaler. She left Port Jackson on 14 July 1807, under the command of Captain William Moody, and with a crew of 20 men. She was bound for the New Zealand seal fisheries and then London. At the Bay of Islands Moody picked up Ruatara (or Duaterra), a Maori chief who wanted to travel to London to meet King George. Santa Anna then sailed to the Bounty Islands, where she left a "gang" for what would be 10 months. The men left included Ruatara, another Maori, two Tahitians, and ten British sailors.Santa Anna then sailed to Norfolk Island and Sydney.
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