Grand Turk (1791 ship), of 564 tons (
bm), built at Salem, Massachusetts. She is no longer listed after 1800.[5]
Grand Turk (1812 ship), had been launched in 1812 at Wiscasset, Maine for a group of 30 investors from Salem, Massachusetts. She was of 30984⁄95 tons burthen and 102-ft in length. She made five voyages as a privateer under a
letter of marque for the War of 1812. During these cruises she captured over 30 vessels. She also held a letter of marque from 1815 for the Second Barbary War that was never used. In May 1814, the
Post Office Packet ServiceHinchinbrooke packet from
Falmouth, Cornwall repelled an attack by Grand Turk in a
single ship action.[6][7][4][8][9]
HMS Grand Turk, was a frigate of 22 guns that entered the French Navy in 1845 and that the British
Royal Navy captured on 4 June 1745. She was sold in 1749.
^ "Memoir of Elias Hasket Derby, Merchant of Salem, Massachusetts". Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review. 36 (2). February 1857.
^ Robert E. Peabody (1908). The Derbys of Salem, Massachusetts : A Study of Eighteenth Century Commerce Carried on by a Family of Typical New England Merchants. pp. 24–28.
^
abEdgar Stanton Maclay (1899). "XIV. Cruises of the Grand Turk". A History of American Privateers.
^Essex Institute Historical Collections, (1904), Vol. 40, p.219.
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Grand Turk (1791 ship), of 564 tons (
bm), built at Salem, Massachusetts. She is no longer listed after 1800.[5]
Grand Turk (1812 ship), had been launched in 1812 at Wiscasset, Maine for a group of 30 investors from Salem, Massachusetts. She was of 30984⁄95 tons burthen and 102-ft in length. She made five voyages as a privateer under a
letter of marque for the War of 1812. During these cruises she captured over 30 vessels. She also held a letter of marque from 1815 for the Second Barbary War that was never used. In May 1814, the
Post Office Packet ServiceHinchinbrooke packet from
Falmouth, Cornwall repelled an attack by Grand Turk in a
single ship action.[6][7][4][8][9]
HMS Grand Turk, was a frigate of 22 guns that entered the French Navy in 1845 and that the British
Royal Navy captured on 4 June 1745. She was sold in 1749.
^ "Memoir of Elias Hasket Derby, Merchant of Salem, Massachusetts". Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review. 36 (2). February 1857.
^ Robert E. Peabody (1908). The Derbys of Salem, Massachusetts : A Study of Eighteenth Century Commerce Carried on by a Family of Typical New England Merchants. pp. 24–28.
^
abEdgar Stanton Maclay (1899). "XIV. Cruises of the Grand Turk". A History of American Privateers.
^Essex Institute Historical Collections, (1904), Vol. 40, p.219.
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.