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{{Short description|Ship launched in 1803}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2018}}
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| image =The Lady Castlereagh dismasted in a cyclone off Madras, 24 October 1818 RMG BHC3437.jpg
| image_caption =The ''Lady Castlereagh'' dismasted in a cyclone off Madras, 24 October 1818
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| country=United Kingdom
| flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|civil}}
| name = ''Lady Castlereagh''
| namesake =[[Lady Castlereagh]]
| owner =*EIC voyages #1–3:Henry Callender
*EIC voyage #4:Miss Jane Chrystie
*EIC voyages #5–7:William Hamilton
*1817:Robinson
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| builder =Randall, Rotherhithe{{sfn|Hackman|2001|p=137–138}}
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| launched =8 January 1803{{sfn|Hackman|2001|p=137–138}}
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| fate = Condemned and sold for breaking up October 1818
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| tons_burthen=821,<ref name=BL>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS045-001115255 ''British Library: Lady Castlereagh''.]</ref> 821{{small|{{frac|8|94}}}},{{sfn|Hackman|2001|p=137–138}} or 847,<ref name=LoM>{{Cite web |url=http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf |title=Letter of Marque, p.72 - accessed 25 July 2017. |access-date=13 October 2018 |archive-date=20 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020052005/http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> or 848<ref name=LR1818/> ([[Builder's Old Measurement|bm]])
| length =*Overall:{{cvt|146|ft|5+1/2|in|m|1|abbr=on}}<ref name=BL/>
*Keel:{{cvt|118|ft|10|in|m|1|abbr=on}}<ref name=BL/>
| beam ={{cvt|36|ft|0+1/2|in|m|1|abbr=on}}<ref name=BL/>
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| hold_depth = {{cvt|14|ft|9+1/2|in|m|1|abbr=on}}<ref name=BL/>
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| complement =*1803:101<ref name=LoM/>
*1805:101<ref name=LoM/>
*1809:101<ref name=LoM/>
*1811:120<ref name=LoM/>
| armament =*1803:27 × 18-pounder [[carronades]]<ref name=LoM/>
*1805:27 × 18-pounder carronades<ref name=LoM/>
*1809:27 × 18-pounder carronades<ref name=LoM/>
*1811:26 × 18-pounder guns<ref name=LoM/>
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'''''Lady Castlereagh''''' was launched in 1803. She made six apparently uneventful voyages to India and one to China for the British [[East India Company]] (EIC). She left the EIC's service and made one voyage [[transportation (punishment)|transporting]] [[convicts]] to Australia. She was returning from having delivered her convicts to [[Port Jackson]] and [[Van Diemen's Land]] when she was damaged in October 1818 a gale at Madras. She was surveyed there, condemned, and sold for breaking up.

==Career==
===1st EIC voyage (1803−1804)===
Captain William Edmeades (or Edmeader) acquired a [[letter of marque]] on 16 July 1803,<ref name=LoM/> i.e., it was issued after he had already sailed from [[The Downs (ship anchorage)|the Downs]] on 6 April, bound for Bengal. ''Lady Castlereagh'' reached Madeira on 27 April and arrived at [[Diamond Harbour]] on 14 September. Homeward bound, she was at [[Sagar Island|Saugor]] on 18 February, and [[Bencoolen Presidency|Bencoolen]] on 13 May. She reached [[Saint Helena|St Helena]] on 14 August.<ref name=BL/> Homeward bound, she left St Helena on 10 September in company with the whalers {{ship||Cornwall|1794 ship|2}} and {{ship||Ocean|1799 ship|2}}.<ref>''[[Lloyd's List]]'' [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735021?urlappend=%3Bseq=387 №4501.]</ref> ''Lady Castlereagh'' arrived back at the Downs on 8 November.<ref name=BL/>

===2nd EIC voyage (1805−1806)===
Captain Thomas Garland Murray acquired a letter of marque on 15 March 1805.<ref name=LoM/> He sailed from Portsmouth on 25 April 1805, bound for St Helena and Bengal. ''Lady Castlereagh'' reached St Helena on 20 July and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 10 December. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 23 January 1806, reached St Helena on 15 May, and arrived back at the Downs on 18 July.

===3rd EIC voyage (1807−1808)===
Captain Murray sailed from Portsmouth on 18 April 1807, bound for [[Chennai|Madras]] and Bengal. ''Lady Castlereagh'' reached Madras on 9 September and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 28 November. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 16 January 1808, reached St Helena on 12 June, and arrived back at the Downs on 14 August.<ref name=BL/>

===4th EIC voyage (1809−1810)===
Captain William Hamilton acquired a letter of marque on 19 January 1809.<ref name=LoM/> He sailed from Portsmouth on 22 February, bound for St Helena and Bengal. ''Lady Castlereagh'' reached St Helena on 8 May and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 18 August. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 30 October and sailed down the west coast of India, reaching [[Visakhapatnam|Vizagapatam]] on 31 December and Madras on 13 January 1810. she was at St Helena on 3 May and arrived at the Downs on 6 July.

===5th EIC voyage (1811−1813)===
Captain George Simpson acquired a letter of marque on 11 May 1811.<ref name=LoM/> He sailed from Torbay on 30 May 1811, bound for Bengal. ''Lady Castlereagh'' reached Madeira on 21 June.<ref name=BL/> On 11 November she grounded at [[Khejuri II#Khijri|Kedgeree]] and was ordered to go up to [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] to go into dock.<ref>''[[Lloyd's List]]'' [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735025?urlappend=%3Bseq=297 №4666.]</ref> and arrived at Calcutta on 16 December. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 15 April 1812. From there she sailed to Bencoolen, which she reached on 9 June, and Madras, which she reached on 22 August. She was at the [[Cape of Good Hope]] on 25 December, reached St Helena on 26 January 1813, and arrived at the Downs on 13 May.<ref name=BL/>

===6th EIC voyage (1814−1815)===
Captain Simpson sailed from Portsmouth on 8 June 1814, bound for Bengal. ''Lady Castlereagh'' reached Madeira on 23 June and arrived at Saugor on 28 November. Homeward bound, she was at Madras on 21 February 1815 and Colombo on 23 March. She was at the Cape on 31 May, reached St Helena on 5 July, and arrived at the Downs on 19 September.<ref name=BL/>

===7th EIC voyage (1816−1817)===
Captain Simpson sailed from Plymouth on 20 March 1816, bound for St Helena and China. ''Lady Castlereagh'' reached St Helena on 28 May and [[Batavia (Dutch East Indies)|Batavia]] on 5 September, before arriving at [[Whampoa Anchorage]] on 2 November. Homeward bound, she crossed the [[Pearl River (China)|Second Bar]] on 22 January 1817, reached st Helena on 10 April, and arrived at the Downs on 6 June.<ref name=BL/>

===Convict transport===
In 1817 ''Lady Castlereagh'' was sold. ''[[Lloyd's Register]]'' for 1818 showed her with Welton, master, Robinson, owner, and trade London–New South Wales.<ref name=LR1818>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005686806?urlappend=%3Bseq=343 ''Lloyd's Register'' (1818), Seq.№L31.]</ref>

Captain George Weltden sailed from England on 22 December 1817. ''Lady Castlereagh'' arrived at Port Jackson on 26 April 1818 and landed 39 convicts. She sailed on 4 May to Hobart where she arrived on 11 June.{{sfn|Bateson|1959|pp=306–307}} She had embarked 300 male convicts and landed the remaining 261 at Hobart.{{sfn|Bateson|1959|p=327}}

==Fate==
''Lady Castlereagh'' left Hobart on 26 May and returned to Port Jackson. There she embarked 150 men from the [[46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot|46th Regiment of Foot]] for Madras. She arrived at Madras on 12 September. A gale on 24 October caused her to slip her cable and put out to sea.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735029?urlappend=%3Bseq=106 ''Lloyd's List'' №5372.]</ref> She was seen the next morning to have lost her foremast.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044050816529?urlappend=%3Bseq=101 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=5371 |date=23 March 1819 |hdl=2027/hvd.32044050816529?urlappend=%3Bseq=101 }}</ref> A gale on 25 October dismasted her and she was so damaged that she was condemned.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735029?urlappend=%3Bseq=133 ''Lloyd's List'' №5379.]</ref> She was surveyed at Madras, condemned, and sold for breaking up.{{sfn|Hackman|2001|p=137–138}}

==Citations==
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==References==
* {{cite book |title =The Convict Ships, 1787-1868 | first =Charles | last =Bateson | year =1959 | publisher =Brown, Son & Ferguson | oclc =3778075}}
* {{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 }}

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[[Category:1803 ships]]
[[Category:Ships of the British East India Company]]
[[Category:Age of Sail merchant ships of England]]
[[Category:Convict ships to New South Wales]]
[[Category:Convict ships to Tasmania]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in 1818]]

Lady Castlereagh (1803 EIC ship) - Revision history

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