Atlas (1811 ship)
{{short description|UK merchant ship and convict transport 1811–1817}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = | Ship caption = }} {{Infobox ship career | Ship country=United Kingdom | Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|civil}} | Ship name = Atlas | Ship namesake = | Ship owner = T. BarrickLloyd's Register [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005667814?urlappend=%3Bseq=597 (1812), supplement seq. no. A162.] | Ship operator = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder =T. Barrick, Whitby{{sfnp|Weatherill|1908|p=122}} | Ship original cost = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = 1811, or 1812 | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship renamed = | Ship struck = | Ship reinstated = | Ship honours = | Ship honors = | Ship captured = | Ship fate = Disappeared, believed to have foundered in 1817 | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption ={{sfnp|Weatherill|1908|p=122}} | Ship class = | Ship tons burthen = 501, or 502[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015024214267?urlappend=%3Bseq=74 Register of Shipping (1816), Seq. №A1347.](bm) | Ship length = {{convert|115|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (keel) | Ship beam = {{convert|32|ft|2|in|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship draught = | Ship draft = | Ship hold depth = | Ship propulsion = Sail | Ship sail plan = | Ship complement = | Ship armament =
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Atlas was a 501-ton sailing ship that was built at Whitby and launched in 1811. In 1814 she successfully defended herself in a single-ship action with an American privateer. In 1816 she transported convicts to New South Wales, and afterwards disappeared off the coast of India in 1817.
Career
Atlas entered Lloyd's Register in 1812 with W. Parker, master, changing to Fairclough, T. Barrick, owner, and trade London transport.
On 9 January 1813 Atlas was at Lisbon when she lost an anchor in a gale. A number of other transports were either lost or seriously damaged in the same gale.[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735026?urlappend=%3Bseq=27 Lloyd's List (LL) №4742.] The number of transports involved suggests that they were their in connection with the Peninsular War.
The transport Atlas, Fairclough, master, arrived at Cork on 19 August 1814. She had on 17 August repelled an attack by the American privateer York, of 14 guns and 150 men. Atlas had only 10 guns and 27 men and boys on board, including three passengers.[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735026?urlappend=%3Bseq=375 LL 26 August 1814.]
Convict voyage (1816): Under the command of Walter Meriton, she sailed from Portsmouth, England on 23 January 1816, and arrived at Port Jackson on 22 July.{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|pp=290-1}} She embarked 194 male convicts, seven of whom died on the voyage.{{efn|The numbers in Bateson clearly exhibit some typographical errors. He has Atlas embarking 294 convicts, and landing 187, with only one convict having died on the voyage.{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|p=327}}}} A detachment of 34 men of the 89th Regiment of Foot provided the guard.
Atlas left Port Jackson on 12 September bound for Batavia.{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71247621 |title=Arrival of Vessels at Port Jackson, and their Departure |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |work=Australian Town and Country Journal, Saturday 3 January 1891, p.16. |publisher= |access-date=4 February 2012}}
Loss
On 29 July 1817, Atlas dropped the pilot at Sandheads, at the mouth of the River Ganges, as she sailed from Calcutta to London.{{efn|Hackman confuses the fate of this Atlas with that of a different {{ship||Atlas|1801 ship|2}}.{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=252}}}} She was not heard from again.{{efn|Lloyd's List gives the master's name as Moncur,[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005778173?urlappend=%3Bseq=387 LL, 31 July 1818, n°5302.] but all other sources give it as Meriton.}}
Lloyd's Register continued to carry Atlas, with Meriton, master, and trade London—Botany Bay, to the 1821 volume. The Register of Shipping carried the same information to the 1822 volume.
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References
- {{cite book |title =The Convict Ships | first =Charles | last =Bateson | year =1959 | publisher =Brown, Son & Ferguson | oclc =3778075}}
- {{cite book |last=Hackman |first=Rowan |date=2001 |title=Ships of the East India Company |location=Gravesend, Kent |publisher=World Ship Society |isbn=0-905617-96-7 }}
- {{cite book|last=Weatherill|first= Richard |year=1908 |title=The ancient port of Whitby and its shipping|location=Whitby|publisher= Horne and Son}}
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Category:Ships built in Whitby
Category:Convict ships to New South Wales
Category:Ships of the British East India Company
Category:Maritime incidents in 1817