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'CABALVA'

Built by:Wells, Wigram & Green at Blackwall.
Yard No.146
Launched:3rd October 1811
Tonnage:1,257 30/94
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Machinery:Sail
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Type:East Indiaman.
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Built for:East India Co. Ship's Husband, William Davies.
Other info:Cost £26 - 10s per ton = £33,318 + £417 extra.
History:4th January 1812. Sailed from London for Bombay and China, Captain Jonathan Birch.
8th June 1813. Arrived in London.
31st December 1813. Sailed from London for Bombay and China.
1814. Wigram's & Green held shares.
25th June 1815. Arrived in London.
Sold to John Card.
23rd June 1816. Sailed from London for Bombay and China. Captain John Hine.
6th May 1817. Arrived in London.
16th May 1819. Sailed from London for China. Captain James Dalrymple.
22nd June 1818. Sprang a leak off the Cape of Good Hope and set course for Bombay for repairs.
7th July 1818. Run ashore on the rocky uninhabited island of Cargados. Captain Dalrymple, Assistant Surgeon Grant, and fifteen seamen were last to leave the wreck in the longboat. All were drowned when it capsized in heavy seas. The remainder of the officers and crew were taken off the island by H.M.S.‘Magicenne’ and landed at Mauritius.


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