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Built by:Thomas Haw at Stockton.
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Launched:17th July 1798
Tonnage:581 38/94
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Built for:Robert Wigram
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History:1805. Captain Withers. Whilst on her homeward passage from Botany Bay and China to London, she was taken by a French privateer and sent to Cape Town. There, she was retaken by the British, as her captors did not know that they had occupied the Cape.
1808. Sold to Barkworth & Co., Hull, as a West Indiaman.


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