Queen (East Indiaman)

At least seven ships with the name Queen served the Honourable East India Company between 1701 and 1839. Most were East Indiamen:

• Queen, 320 tons burthen (bm), 64 crew and 26 guns; the French captured her at Saint Helena on 1 June 1706. she was on the homeward leg of her second voyage; George Cornwall, her captain, was killed in the action.^[1]
• Queen, a ship of 330 tons (bm), 18-22 guns and 60-66 crew, made two voyages to Bombay or Bencoolen between 1715 and 1720. She had been launched on the River Thames for Sir Joseph Martin. She was sold in 1720 into the West Indies and Levant trades.^[2]
• Queen, of 499, 804, or 821⁷⁄₉₄ tons (bm), was launched by Randall, Rotherhithe, on 24 October 1767.^[2] She made five trips to India or China for the company between 1768 and 1784, and was present at the Battle of Porto Praya. She was sold in 1784 for breaking up.^[2]
• Queen, of 755 or 801 tons (bm), made four trips to India or China between 1786 and 1800, and on her fifth trip was lost to fire at Salvador, Bahia in 1800.
• Queen, "extra" ship of 484, or 491 tons (bm), was launched in 1795 at Quebec for Urquhart & Co.^[3] She made three voyages between 1796 and 1801. She appears to have twice sailed under a letter of marque. The first was issued on 18 February 1796 to Captain Corbyn Morris Venner, and described Queen as having twelve 4 & 6-pounder guns, and a crew of 40. The second was issued on 10 June 1801 to Captain Alfred Nichols and described her as having sixteen 9 and 12-pounder guns and a crew of only 36 men.^[4] She then transferred to the West Indies trade. In 1807 she was sailing from Demerara to London when she had to stop at Bermuda as she was in distress. She was surveyed there, condemned as unseaworthy, and was sold for breaking up.^[3]

Licensed ships

• Queen was a steamship built in 1839 by Pitcher, Northfleet. She was sold for breaking up in 1858.^[5]

Bombay Marine

• Queen was a ketch of 14 guns, launched in 1768 at Bombay Dockyard for the Bombay Marine^[5]

See also

• HMS Queen
• Queen (ship)

Citations and references

Citations

1. Hackman (2001), p.39.
2. Hackman (2001), p.180.
3. Hackman (2001), p.241.
4. Letter of Marque, 1793-1815; p.83.
5. Hackman (2001), p.338.

References

• Hackman, Rowan (2001) Ships of the East India Company. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society). ISBN 0-905617-96-7
• Hardy, Charles and Horatio Charles Hardy (1811) A register of ships, employed in the service of the Honorable the United East India Company, from the year 1760 to 1810: with an appendix, containing a variety of particulars, and useful information interesting to those concerned with East India commerce. (London: Black, Parry, and Kingsbury).
• National Archives: Queen, - Accessed 12 December 2014.