Friendship (ship)

A number of ships have been named Friendship:

Sailing ships
  • Friendship – a ketch launched in 1705 for the Bengal Pilot service.[1]
  • Friendship – a brigantine owned by Roger Gregory of Virginia, wrecked off Portugal in 1770
  • Friendship (1784 ship), a 278-ton (bm) brig built in Scarborough in 1784, that transported convicts to Botany Bay in 1788, as part of the First Fleet. She was scuttled in 1788.[2]
  • Friendship – a schooner built at Ipswich, Massachusetts, registered at Salem in 1789 to Asa Smith
  • Friendship (1793 ship), was a three-decker merchantman launched in 1793. She made three voyages for the British East India Company (EIC). During her first voyage, in 1796, a French privateer captured her, but the Royal Navy recaptured her. On the second, in 1799, she transported convicts from Ireland to Australia. She made a second voyage transporting convicts in 1817–18. On her way back she was broken up in 1819 at Mauritius after having been found unseaworthy.
  • Friendship, a brigantine of Salem, Massachusetts, of 164 tons, registered at Salem 1794 to Hodges & Nichols
  • Friendship, a schooner of Beverly, Massachusetts, of 111 tons, registered at Salem in 1795 to Woodbury & Haskell
  • Friendship, an East Indiaman at Salem, Massachusetts, and launched in 1797; HMS Rosamond captured her in 1812 as she returned from Russia.[3]
  • Friendship (1824), a schooner of 120 tons (bm), built at Barnstaple for White & Co. (Van Dieman's Land Co.).[4]
  • Friendship, brigantine, Beverly, 157 tons registered at Salem in 1799 to Lovett, Leach & Kilham
  • Friendship, schooner, Scarborough, Maine, 61 tons registered at Salem in 1801 to Hathorn & Pope
  • FriendShip, sloop, Thomaston, Maine, 82 tons registered at Salem in 1808 to Porter & Marshall
  • Friendship, schooner, place of construction unknown, 47 tons, registered at Salem in 1815 to Edward Richardson
  • Friendship, ship, of Portland, Maine, 366 tons, registered at Salem in 1816 to Waite and Pierce. This was the Friendship that Malay pirates captured in 1813 at Quallah Battoo.[5]

Other

See also

Citations and references

Citations

  1. Hackman (2001), p.331.
  2. Hitchings, Frank A. Ship Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly, 1799–1900 Continued, The Essex Institute Historical Collections, Salem: Essex Institute, 1904, 194–5.
  3. Ibid.
  4. Hackman (2001), p. 278.
  5. Hitchings, Frank A. Ship's Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly, Essex Institute, Salem, Essex Institute, 1905, 194–5.

References

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