Perseverance (1799 ship)

Perseverance was built in 1797 at Stettin or Sweden and came into British hands in 1799. She made one voyage under charter to the British East India Company (EIC), and was lost in July 1803.

For other ships with the same name, see Perseverance (ship).

History
Baltic
Name:	Unknown
Owner:	Various
Launched:	1797
Fate:	Sold 1799
Great Britain
Name:	Perseverance
Owner:	Various
Acquired:	1799
Fate:	Wrecked July 1803
General characteristics
Tonnage:	323,[1] or 340[2] (bm)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship

Career

Perseverance was built either in Stettin,[3] then part of Prussia, or Sweden.[4] One source states the Prinsep and Saunders purchased her,[3] but she first appears in Lloyd's Register with Ord, master, and Herbert, owner. Her trade is London—Demerara.[2]

Lloyd's Register for 1801 gives her master as Dorwick, her owner as Woods & Co., and her trade as London—Bengal.[5] Perseverance sailed from Portsmouth on 9 January 1801.[6] Messrs. Princip and Saunders had tendered Perseverance, Nathaniel Downick, master, to the EIC to bring back rice from Bengal. She was one of 28 vessels that sailed on that mission between December 1800 and February 1801.[7]

See also: Transport vessels for the British Government's importation of rice from Bengal (1800–1802)

She arrived at Calcutta on 24 May. Homeward bound, she reached St Helena on 31 December, and arrived at the Downs on 21 February 1802.[6]

On her return Captain Dorwick, or Downick, purchased her,[3] though the Register of Shipping shows her owner as Dixon & Co. Under Captain J. Goodwin she then sailed to Honduras.[1] In 1803 she was under the command of Stevenson, with Dorwick, owner, and trade London—Memel.[8]

Fate

Lloyd's List reported on 19 July 1803 that Perseverance had been wrecked on the Memel Bar in the Baltic Sea during voyage from Memel to London.[9]

Citations and references

Citations

1. Register of Shipping (1802), Seq. №P202.
2. Lloyd's Register (1799), Seq.№P456.
3. Hackman (2001), p. 240.
4. Lloyd's Register (1802), Seq. №P180.
5. Lloyd's Register (1801), Seq.№P157.
6. British Library: Perseverance (1).
7. Hardy (1800), p.217.
8. Lloyd's Register (1804), Seq. №P258.
9. Lloyd's List №4368.

References

• Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Hardy, Charles (1800) A Register of Ships, Employed in the Service of the Hon. the United East India Company, from the Union of the Two Companies, in 1707, to the Year 1760: Specifying the Number of Voyages, Tonnage, Commanders, and Stations. To which is Added, from the Latter Period to the Present Time, the Managing Owners, Principal Officers, Surgeons, and Pursers; with the Dates of Their Sailing and Arrival: Also, an Appendix, Containing Many Particulars, Interesting to Those Concerned in the East India Commerce. (Charles Hardy)