Albinia (1813 ship)

Albinia was launched at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1813. She initially sailed several times to India under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She then sailed primarily between London and Demerara. She foundered on 25 March 1842 off the coast of Ireland.

History
United Kingdom
Builder: William Smith & Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne[1]
Launched: 25 March 1813
Fate: Foundered 25 March 1842
General characteristics
Tons burthen: 415​59⁄94,[2] or 427, or 430 (bm)
Armament: 8 × 18-pounder carronades

Career

Albinia first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1813, but with information on her origins (Sunderland) and burthen (370 tons) that later volumes corrected.[3]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1813 Weatherall Clay & Co. London transport LR

In 1813 the EIC lost its monopoly on the trade between India and Britain. British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a license from the EIC.[4] Albinia was reported to have been at Point de Galle on 16 January 1814. On 5 June 1814 Albinia Weatherall, master, arrived at Gravesend from Ceylon.

Then on 5 November Albinia, Weatherall, master sailed for the Cape of Good Hope (the Cape) and Batavia as a licensed ship.[5] On 11 December 1816 she was back at Portsmouth, having sailed from Java on 16 July and from the Cape on 18 September.

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1816 Weatherall Clay & Co. London–India LR
1818 Norton
Lynn		 Clay & Co. London–Île de France LR
1821 Lynn
Shadford		 Clay & Co. London–India
London–Demerara		 LR
1824 Shadforth Clay & Co. London–Demerara LR

On 18 February 1823 Albinia, Shadforth, lost her bowsprit and foretopmast in Sea Breach and remained at Gravesend.

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1827 Shadforth
Vowles		 Clay & Co. London–Demerara LR
1829 Vowles
Purvis		 Clay & Co.
Hall & Co.		 London–Demerara LR
1835 Purvis Hall & Co. London–Demerara LR

Albinia, Rind, master, ran aground on 24 September 1838 on the Kent Sand, in the Bay of Fundy. She was on a voyage from Demerara to St. Andrews, New Brunswick, British North America. Albinia was later refloated.[6] Afterward, Hebe. of St Andrews, ran into her, costing Albinia her royal mast and some rigging.

Year Master Owner Trade Source & notes
1840 Kind London–Demerara LR; damages repaired 1836 & 1839

Fate

Albinia, of 430 tons (bm), Logic, master, was lost on 25 March 1842. She was carrying 600 tons of coal from Newcastle to Jamaica when a gale disabled her 50 nautical miles (93 km) miles north west of Tory Island. Two crew members drowned and the 15 survivors took to a small boat. Two days later they safely reached "Ballyherman strand" (Ballygorman?), Donegal.[7]

The volume of LR for 1841 carries the annotation "Foundered" by her name.[8]

Citations and references

Citations

  1. Tyne Built Ship: "A".
  2. Hackman (2001), p. 248.
  3. LR (1813), Supple. pages "A", Seq.№A92.
  4. Hackman (2001), p. 247.
  5. LR (1815), "Licensed India Ships".
  6. "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury (18546). London. 24 November 1838.
  7. "Total Loss of the Brig Albinia", Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Ireland), 8 April 8, 1842; Issue 10930.
  8. LR (1841), Seq.№A296.

References

  • Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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