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{{short description|British ship}}
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{{Use British English|date=January 2017}}
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|country=Great Britain
|flag={{shipboxflag|Kingdom of Great Britain|civil}}
|name=''Gabriel''
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|owner=Hamilton & Co.
|builder=Gabriel Gillett, Calcutta, [[Kolkata|Calcutta]]{{sfnp|Phipps|1840|p=128-9}}{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=112}}
|launched=24 September 1794{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=112}}
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|fate=Wrecked 8 September 1801
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|armament=20 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 18-pounder [[carronades]]<ref name=LR1797/>
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'''''Gabriel''''' was a country ship launched in 1794 at Calcutta. She traded east of the [[Cape of Good Hope]], except for at least two voyages for the British [[East India Company]] (EIC). She wrecked in 1801 during the British military expedition to the Red Sea.

==Career==
''Gabriel'' was built to carry cotton. She had a forecastle and poop, with beams and waterways laid for the orlop deck. However, these were not planked as storage of cotton was easier if the lowest deck had not been laid.{{sfnp|Bulley|2000|p=28}}{{efn|Phipps has a detailed breakdown of the cost of construction for ''Gabriel''. Materials (including lumber), accounted for 77.4% of the total cost of 115,538 sicca rupees, and labor accounted for 22.6%. Fully fitted out for sea her cost was 125,000 sicca ruppes.{{sfnp|Phipps|1840|p=128-9}} At approximately 10 sicca rupees per pound sterling, the construction cost would have been £12,500.}}

Between 1794 and 1795 ''Gabriel'' was engaged in local trade.

Captain John Caise sailed from [[Diamond Harbour]] on 16 January 1796, bound for England under charter to the EIC. ''Gabriel'' was at [[Sagar Island|Saugor]] on 13 February, and reached [[Saint Helena|St Helena]] on 27 June. By 26 November she was at Crookhaven, and she arrived at [[The Downs (ship anchorage)|The Downs]] on 11 December.<ref name=BL>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS045-001115023 British Library: ''Gabriel''.]</ref> On 25 February 1797 she was admitted to the Registry of Great Britain.{{Sfnp|House of Commons|1814|p=76}} ''Gabriel'' enters ''[[Lloyd's Register]]'' in 1897 with Carrs, master, and Hamilton, owner.<ref name=LR1797>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004281278?urlappend=%3Bseq=152 ''Lloyd's Register'' (1797), Seq.№247.]</ref>

On 11 September 1797 ''Gabriel'' was on her way to India when she was caught up in a gale. She put into Torbay, having lost her anchor and having had her galleries stove in.<ref>''[[Lloyd's List]]'' [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c3049069?urlappend=%3Bseq=155 №2957.]</ref>

Between 29 July and 1798, ''Gabriel'', under the command of Captain William Turnbull, made a voyage to Bengal.{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=112}}

On 9 February 1799 Captain Turnbull sailed from Bengal for England. ''Gabriel'' reached St Helena on 10 May, and by 17 July was "toward England".<ref name=BL/>

In 1800 she was again in local trade in India.{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=112}}

==Fate==
The British government used ''Gabriel'' as a transport to support General Sir [[Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet|David Baird's]] expedition to the Red Sea, which in turn had the objective of supporting General Sir [[Ralph Abercrombie]] at the [[Battle of Alexandria (1801)|battle of Alexandria]].

{{main|Transport vessels for the British expedition to the Red Sea (1801)}}

''Lloyd's List'' reported on 25 May 1802 that ''Gabriel'' had been lost in the Red Sea.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735020?urlappend=%3Bseq=297 ''Lloyd's List'' №4258.]</ref> She had been wrecked on 8 September 1801 in the Strait of Jubal at the entrance to the Gulf of Suez. Captain Turnbull and the crew of 100 men, and 42 women and 46 children, dependents of the [[61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot|61st Regiment of Foot]], were all saved.<ref name=AA>''Asiatic Annual Register'' (1803), p. 16.</ref>

The crew and passengers sailed in the ship's boats to [[El Qoseir|Cosseir]]. There Turnbull arranged for an Arab dhow to take the women and children to Jeddah.<ref name=AA/>

==Notes==
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==Citations==
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==References==
* {{cite book |last=Bulley |first=Anne |year=2000 |title=The Bombay Country Ships, 1790–1833 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0700712366}}
* {{cite book |last=Hackman |first=Rowan |year=2001 |title=Ships of the East India Company |location=Gravesend, Kent |publisher=World Ship Society |isbn=0-905617-96-7}}
* {{cite book|last=Phipps|first=John|year=1840|title=A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time ...|publisher=Scott}}
* {{cite book |author=((House of Commons, Parliament, Great Britain)) |year=1814 |title=Minutes of the Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on Petitions Relating to East-India-Built Shipping |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |ref={{SfnRef|House of Commons|1814}}}}

{{1801 shipwrecks}}

[[Category:1794 ships]]
[[Category:British ships built in India]]
[[Category:Ships of the British East India Company]]
[[Category:Age of Sail merchant ships of England]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in 1801]]
[[Category:Shipwrecks in the Red Sea]]

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