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List of Age of Sail ships named Charlotte
Several vessels of
the Age of Sail
were named
Charlotte
:
was an English
merchant ship
built in the
River Thames
and chartered in 1786 to
carry
convicts as part of
the First Fleet
to
New South Wales
. She returned to Britain from
Botany Bay
via
China
, where she picked up a cargo for the
British East India Company
.
Charlotte
then
spent
most of the rest of her career in the London-Jamaica trade. She may have been lost off Newfoundland in
1818
; in any case, she disappears from the lists by
1821
.
was built at the
Bombay Dockyard
. She spent most of her career as a country ship, trading between
India and China
. She was wrecked in 1851.
See
also:
– one of three sailing vessels of the
British Royal Navy
named
Charlotte