Trelawney (or Trelawny) was launched in 1783 in Liverpool as a West Indiaman. In 1800 a French privateer captured her as Trelawney was sailing to the Mediterranean, but the Royal Navy quickly recaptured her. The ship traded with North America until she was wrecked on 19 February 1803.
Career
Trelawney was reported to have been originally intended to be a 36-gun frigate.[4] She first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1784.[1]
Year
Master
Owner
Trade
Source & notes
1784
Harrison
Richard Watts
Liverpool–Jamaica
LR
In July 1788 Trelawney, Harrison, master, arrived at Liverpool from Jamaica. She brought with her the crew of Morant, Aikin master. Morant had been wrecked on the Key of the Cockscombs while sailing from Jamaica to Bristol.[5][a]
On 19 October 1790 Captain Henry Bunster replaced Captain Thomas Harrison as master of Trelawney,[2] however the change did not appear in Lloyd's Register. Then on 15 November 1791 Captain John Gillis replaced Captain Bunster.[2]
Year
Master
Owner
Trade
Source & notes
1792
Harrison J.Gillis
Watt & Co.
Liverpool–Jamaica
LR; raised 1785
1793
Gillis R.Cummins
Watt & Co.
Liverpool–Jamaica
LR; raised 1785
On 22 October 1793, Captain Robert Cummins replaced Gillis. War with France had broken out in early 1793 and on 17 October Cummins acquired a letter of marque.[3]
In 1796 Trelawney was sold to residents of Glasgow.
Year
Master
Owner
Trade
Source & notes
1796
Cummins J.Malcolm
Watt & Co.
Liverpool–Jamaica
LR; raised 1784
1797
Malcolm N.Kennedy
Hunter & Co.
Liverpool–Nova Scotia
LR; raised 1784 & repaired 1795
1798
Kennedy J.Lockart
Hunter & Co.
Bristol–Halifax Liverpool Martinique
LR; raised 1784, repaired 1795 & 1798
1800
Kenedy Lockhard
Taylor & Co. Hume
Liverpool−Martinique Liverpool–Leghorn
LR; repairs 1798
Captain John Lockhard acquired a letter of marque on 7 January 1800.[3]
On 14 February 1800 HMS Endymion and Amazon recaptured Trelawney,[7] which had been sailing from Liverpool to Leghorn when the French Saint MaloprivateerBougainville captured her. Amazon also captured Bougainville, of eighteen 6-pounder guns and eighty-two men. The next day Bougainville ran into Amazon, lost her masts and foundered, but all but one man of her crew were saved.[8]Amazon, including Bougainville's crew, Endymion, and Trelawney arrived at Portsmouth on 21 February.[9][b]
Year
Master
Owner
Trade
Source & notes
1801
P.Lockard D.Stamper
Bayley & Co. Hulme & Co.
Liverpool–Leghorn Liverpool-Virginia
LR; raised 1784, repaired 1795 & 1798, and large repair 1802
1802
D.Stamper L.Afflick
D.Hulme & Co.
Liverpool-Virginia
LR; raised 1784, repaired 1795 & 1798, and large repair 1802
On 5 February 1801 Captain Isaac Duck acquired a letter of marque. On 28 December 1801 he returned to Liverpool from Virginia. His tenure as master of Trelawney did not appear in Lloyd's Register.
Fate
On 19 February 1803 Trelawney, Affleck, master, was returning to Liverpool from Baltimore. Off Liverpool, she took on board a pilot. Shortly thereafter she grounded on the Mad-Wharf sandbank, was refloated, but found to be so leaky that she was run onshore near Ravenglass, about 16 miles from Whitehaven, with 15 feet of water in her hold.[11][12] The passengers were put ashore, but five lives were lost when a boat returning to the ship capsized.[3][12] It was later reported that, despite hopes of salvage, she went to pieces on 25 February.[4]
Notes
^Morant, of 300 tons (bm), had been launched at Philadelphia in 1773, and lengthened in 1776.[6]
^Bougainville had been commissioned in 1799 with 82 men and 18 guns. Her homeport is unknown.[10]
^ ab"Marine Intelligence". Newcastle Courant. No. 6594. Newcastle on Tyne. 26 February 1803. p. 4. Retrieved 13 July 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
Demerliac, Alain (1999). La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 à 1799 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN9782906381247. OCLC492783890.