John O'Gaunt (1809 ship)
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Robertdodd-johnogaunt.jpg |Ship caption="Off Dover, The Merchantman John O'Gaunt in Two Positions", by Robert Dodd, 1811 }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|civil}} |Ship name=John O'Gaunt |Ship namesake=John O'Gaunt |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=John Brockbank, Lancaster, Lancashire |Ship laid down= |Ship launched= 1809 |Ship acquired= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship honours= |Ship captured= |Ship fate=Scuttled December 1813 |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship tons burthen=419, or 426,Lloyd's Register [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005676385?urlappend=%3Bseq=555 (1809), Supple. Seq. №J41.] (bm) |Ship length= |Ship beam= |Ship draught= |Ship hold depth= |Ship sail plan= |Ship propulsion= |Ship armament=*1809:16 × 12-pounder guns
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John O'Gaunt was a merchant ship launched in 1809 that traded with the West Indies. The {{ship|French frigate|Clorinde |1808|6}} captured and scuttled John O'Gaunt in 1813.
On 7 July 1809, Captain Robert Gibson received a Letter of marque for John O'Gaunt.{{Cite web |url=http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf |title=Letter of Marque, pp.70-1, accessed 25 July 2017. |access-date=14 August 2017 |archive-date=20 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020052005/http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf |url-status=dead }} Under his command, and later under the command of James Moon, who received a letter of marque on 23 March 1810, she made several voyages as a West Indiaman. On 1 November 1811, as she was sailing from London to Cork and Barbados, she lost an anchor in The Downs.Lloyd's List [http://www.1812privateers.org/LLOYDS/1811/11-05-1811.jpg №4612. Accessed 6 December 2016.]
On 27 November 1813 John O'Gaunt, P. Inglis, master, and four other merchant vessels left Portsmouth in a convoy under escort by {{HMS|Severn|1813|6}}. The other four were:
- Blendon Hall, 473 tons (bm), Barr, master, which had been sailing from London to Bermuda;
- Lusitania, 245 tons (bm), Johnston, master, which had been sailing from London to Suriname;
- Aurora, Scheidt, master, which had been sailing to Amelia Island; and,
- Superb, 130 tons (bm), R. Roberts, master, which had been sailing from Gibraltar to England.
Due to a heavy storm, the five merchantmen lost contact with the convoy and its escort. On 6 December Clorinde captured all five merchant vessels,{{sfnp|Senior|1911|pp=180-182}} in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|44|30|N|10|30|W}}). The French took off the crews of four vessels and scuttled three. In their haste, they failed to sink Blenden Hall properly, leaving her floating. They kept Lusitania as a cartel and put all their captives aboard her. They then permitted Lusitania to sail to a British port.{{sfnp|Senior|1911|pp=180-182}} She arrived at Plymouth on 18 December.Lloyd's List [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005785830?urlappend=%3Bseq=219 №4831.]
John O'Gaunt{{'}}s entry in the Register of Shipping for 1814 carries the notation "CAPTURED".[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015024214440?urlappend=%3Bseq=359 Register of Shipping (1814), Seq. №690.]
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- {{cite journal |last1=Senior |first1=W. |year=1911|title=The Rivals |journal=Mariner's Mirror |volume=1 |issue=7 |pages=180–182|doi=10.1080/00253359.1911.10654516 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/2041998 }}
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Category:Age of Sail merchant ships
Category:Merchant ships of the United Kingdom