Clarendon (ship)

Several ships have been named Clarendon:

  • Clarendon (1783 ship) was built at Bristol as a West Indiaman.
  • Clarendon (1792 ship) was built at Lancaster as a West Indiaman. She spent most of her career sailing between England and Jamaica. She then became a transport based out of Hull. She wrecked on 7 April 1815 while bringing prisoners as a cartel from Bermuda to the United States.
  • Clarendon (1807 ship) was built at Whitehaven. Between 1808 or so and 1813 she sailed as a West Indiaman between London and Jamaica. In 1814 she sailed for Batavia under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). A privateer young Wasp captured her off the Cape of Good Hope (the Cape), on 6 January 1815, and she arrived at Baltimore on 15 April.
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