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'RETREAT'

Built by:Obadiah Ayles at Topsham, Devon.
Yard No.
Launched:18th September 1801
Tonnage:548 74/94
Length:91' 5"
Breadth:32' 3"
Depth:14' 1"
Machinery:Sail
Decks:
Built of:
Type:Blackwall Frigate.
Registered:
Built for:Robert Wigram.
Other info:Crew 50 men - Armament 16 Guns.
History:1801 – 1805. Trading as a West Indiaman.
7th February 1802. Run into the barge ‘Hope’, which sunk, on the River Thames, outward to Jamaica.
14th February 1802. Put into Plymouth leaking.
9th January 1805. Robert Wigram accepted tender of £29 · 15s per ton.
25th April 1805. Sailed from London, Captain William Hay, for Madeira and Bombay.
8th May 1806. Arrived in London.
12th November 1806. Robert Wigram accepted tender of £15 per ton.
31st December 1806. Sailed from the Downs for China.
1st July 1808. Arrived in London.
17th March 1809. Tho. Herbert Harris made commander.
28th April 1809. Sailed from London, Captain Thomas Herbert Harris, for Bombay, as an extra ship.
8th July 1810. Arrived in London.
1810 – 1815. Robert Wigram held 6/16 shares.
9th May 1811. The ‘Walthamstow’, ‘Dover Castle’, ‘Warren Hastings’, ‘Retreat’ and the ‘Tottenham’ are expected to be dispatched on the 18th of May. The general fleet was to sail from Bengal the latter end of March, for the rendezvous at Point de Galla; they were not expected to arrive in England before September.
30th May 1811. Sailed from London, Captain Thomas Watson Leach, for Madeira and Bengal.
17th September 1812. Arrived in London.
20th April 1813. Sailed from London for Bengal and Bencoolen.
10th August 1814. Went ashore between the Downs and the River Thames. Part of her cargo had to be removed and refloated off.
11th August 1814. Arrived in London.
1814. Sold for breaking up.


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