Cornwallis (1789 ship)'s origins are subject to a great deal of ambiguity. She was probably built at Surat. The 1789 year is an average across eight sources that range between 1788 and 1790. Reports of her size range between 653 and 719 tons (bm). What establishes the link between the reports are commonalities of masters and owners. She was a country ship, trading primarily around India and between India and China. She made two voyages to England for the East India Company. The vessel was used to exile the last king of
Ceylon, King
Sri Vikrama Rajasinghe to
Vellore after his forced abdication by the British authorities headed by the governor
Robert Brownrigg. She burned at
Bombay in June 1841.
Other vessels:
Cornwallis (1803 ship) was a French vessel launched in 1802 that came into British hands in 1803. Under a sequence of owners she traded with the West Indies, Spain, the
Cape of Good Hope, and Singapore. She is last listed in 1834.
Cornwallis (1862 ship) was launched by Thomas Vernon & Sons, Liverpool, on 11 June 1862 as a steel-hulled clipper ship. She was lost at Pitcairn Island in January 1875.
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list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
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Cornwallis (1789 ship)'s origins are subject to a great deal of ambiguity. She was probably built at Surat. The 1789 year is an average across eight sources that range between 1788 and 1790. Reports of her size range between 653 and 719 tons (bm). What establishes the link between the reports are commonalities of masters and owners. She was a country ship, trading primarily around India and between India and China. She made two voyages to England for the East India Company. The vessel was used to exile the last king of
Ceylon, King
Sri Vikrama Rajasinghe to
Vellore after his forced abdication by the British authorities headed by the governor
Robert Brownrigg. She burned at
Bombay in June 1841.
Other vessels:
Cornwallis (1803 ship) was a French vessel launched in 1802 that came into British hands in 1803. Under a sequence of owners she traded with the West Indies, Spain, the
Cape of Good Hope, and Singapore. She is last listed in 1834.
Cornwallis (1862 ship) was launched by Thomas Vernon & Sons, Liverpool, on 11 June 1862 as a steel-hulled clipper ship. She was lost at Pitcairn Island in January 1875.
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.