| History | |
|---|---|
 Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Shark |
| Builder | Randall, Rotherhithe |
| Launched | March 1776 |
| Acquired | 1775 by purchase on the stocks |
| Renamed | HMS Salamander |
| Fate | Sold August 1783 |
 Great Britain | |
| Name | Salamander |
| Owner | |
| Acquired | By purchase c.1783 |
| Fate | No longer listed in 1812 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 303,[3] or 309,[1] or 313,[4] or 319,[5] or 320,[6] or 342[5][a] (bm) |
| Length | 96 ft 3 in (29.3 m) (overall); 78 ft 4 in (23.9 m) (keel) |
| Beam | 27 ft 5 in (8.4 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft 0 in (2.7 m) |
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The British Royal Navy purchased HMS Shark on the stocks in 1775. She was launched in 1776, and in 1778 converted to a fireship and renamed HMS Salamander. The Navy sold her in 1783. She then became the mercantile Salamander. In the 1780s she was in the northern whale fishery. In 1791 she transported convicts to Australia. She then became a whaling ship in the southern whale fishery for a number of years, before becoming a general transport and then a slave ship. In 1804 the French captured her, but the Royal Navy recaptured her. Although she is last listed in 1811, she does not appear in Lloyd's List (LL) ship arrival and departure (SAD) data after 1804.
- ^ a b Lloyd's Register (1802). seq. no. S64.
- ^ Lloyd's Register (1804), seq. no. S100.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ a b c d e f "Letter of Marque, p.85 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ Bateson (1959), pp. 115–6.
- ^ Register of Shipping (1806), Seq. №76.
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