Английская Википедия:Dunvegan Castle (1819 ship)

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Dunvegan Castle was a merchant ship built at Chittagong in 1819. She made two voyages transporting convicts from England and Ireland to Australia. She also transported troops at least twice, once to Burma (1824) and once to Spain (1835). She was lost in 1837.

Career

In 1824 Dunvegan Castle was one of the transports belonging to the second division of the Madras Force participating in the First Anglo-Burmese War.Шаблон:Sfnp

On 4 July 1828 she sailed to Mauritius and Ceylon under a license from the British East India Company.[1]

On her first convict voyage, under the command of William Warmsley and with surgeon Robert Dunn, she departed Sheerness on 30 September 1829. She stopped at Hobart Town and arrived in Sydney on 30 March 1830.Шаблон:Sfnp She embarked 180 male convicts and there were five convict deaths en route.Шаблон:Sfnp

On her second convict voyage, under the command of John Duff and with surgeon Patrick McTernan, she departed Dublin, Ireland on 1 July 1832 and arrived in Sydney on 16 October 1832.Шаблон:Sfnp She embarked 200 male convicts and had no deaths en route.Шаблон:Sfnp

In early 1836 she sailed to Spain with some 150 troops of the British Auxiliary Legion.[2] The Legion was a unit of volunteers that went to Spain to support the Liberals and Queen Isabella II of Spain against the Carlists in the First Carlist War.

Fate

She was last listed in Lloyd's Register in 1836 with Dawhiney, master, G. Clark, owner, and trade Falmouth–Newcastle. The entry is marked "LOST".[3]

She was wrecked on 25 April 1837 on the Lemon Sand, Yarmouth. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Demerara.[4]

Notable people transported aboard

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