Morning Star (ship)

Several vessels have been named Morning Star for the Morning Star:

  • Morning Star was a one-and-a-half year old cutter that the British Royal Navy purchased in 1763. It sold her in 1773. She then became a slave ship, first under her original name and then as Fanny. She was last listed in 1778.
  • Morning Star was an American schooner privateer of 32, or 54 tons (bm), one gun, and 50 men under the command of Captain A.Tucker. He commissioned her at Portland, Maine on 12 July 1812. HMS Maidstone captured Morning Star in the Bay of Fundy and burnt her on 1 August.[1]
  • Morning Star (1813 ship) was launched at Calcutta, India. She was wrecked in Torres Strait near Quoin Island, Queensland in July 1814.

See also

Citations and references

Citations

  1. Emmons (1853), p. 186.

References

  • Emmons, George Foster (1853). The navy of the United States, from the commencement, 1775 to 1853; with a brief history of each vessel’s service and fate ... Comp. by Lieut. George F. Emmons ... under the authority of the Navy Dept. To which is added a list of private armed vessels, fitted out under the American flag ... also a list of the revenue and coast survey vessels, and principal ocean steamers, belonging to citizens of the United States in 1850. Washington: Gideon & Co.
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