Seringapatam (1799 ship)
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Seringapatam |
| Namesake: | Battle of Seringapatam |
| Launched: | 1799, Bombay |
| Fate: | Captured July 1813 |
 United States
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| Name: | USS Seringapatam |
| Acquired: | July 1813 (by capture) |
| Fate: | Taken by mutineers and prisoners of war in May 1814 |
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United Kingdom
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| Name: | Seringapatam |
| Acquired: | Seized by mutineers and prisoners of war in May 1814 |
| Fate: | 1860: Sold as a hulk |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Brig |
| Tons burthen: | 336, or 357 (bm) |
| Complement: | 25-30 |
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Seringapatam was built in 1799, of teak, as a warship for Tippu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore. However, the British stormed his citadel at Seringapatam that year and he was killed in the action. The vessel was sailed to England in the hopes that the Admiralty would buy it. The Admiralty did not, and British merchants bought her to use as a whaler. She made several voyages to the Southern Atlantic and the Pacific until 1813, when during the War of 1812, a US frigate captured her. She served briefly as a tender to the frigate before mutineers and British prisoners recaptured her and sailed to Australia. After her return to her owners, she continued to trade until 1850, sailing between London and the South Seas and Australia.
Seringapatam was admitted to the Registry of Great Britain on 16 April 1800.
Between 1800 and 1811 or so, Seringapatam sailed under a sequence of four letters of marque.
She was registered on Lloyd's Register in 1801 with sequence number S215, and her age was noted as two years old.Lloyd's List reported in January 1801 that she had been at Rio de Janeiro, having sailed in company with a several ships of the East India Company. She was one of the vessels in the convoy at the Action of 4 August 1800, when HMS Belliqueux and the East Indiaman Exeter captured the French frigates Concorde and Médée.
In 1804, under Captain John Bird, Seringapatam visited the Kerguelen Islands as part of a flotilla of eight vessels on a sealing voyage from London. At the time she was owned by the merchant William Mellish.
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