Lady Penrhyn (1786 ship)

For other ships with the same name, see Lady Penrhyn (ship).

Lady Penrhyn
History
Great Britain
NameLady Penrhyn
NamesakeLady Penrhyn (née Anne Susannah Warburton),[1] the wife of Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, of the Penrhyn Estate in Llandygai, North Wales.[2] The word Penrhyn itself is Welsh for headland or peninsula.
Owner
  • Sir William Curtis (Curtis & Co.)[3]
  • William C. Sever
Port of registryLondon
BuilderEdward Greaves, River Thames
Launched1786
Captured1811 and burnt
General characteristics [4]
Tons burthen322,[5] or 332, or 3322⁄94,[6] or 360[3] (bm)
Length
  • Overall: 103 ft 5 in (31.5 m)
  • Keel: 82 ft 3+1⁄2 in (25.1 m)
Beam27 ft 6+1⁄2 in (8.4 m)
Depth of hold12 ft 0 in (3.7 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planShip rig
Armament10 × 9-pounder carronades[5]

Lady Penrhyn was built on the River Thames in 1786 as a slave ship.

Lady Penrhyn was designed as a two-deck ship for use in the Atlantic slave trade, with a capacity of 275 slaves.[7] She was part-owned by William Compton Sever, who served as ship's master on her voyage to Australia,[3] and by London alderman and sea-biscuit manufacturer William Curtis.[8]

For her first voyage she transported convicts to New South Wales as part of the First Fleet. On her voyage back to Britain she was the first European vessel to pass by the Kermadec Islands, and the Penrhyn Atoll in the Cook Islands.

She also carried a cargo for the British East India Company (EIC). The French captured her in the West Indies in 1811 and scuttled her.

  1. ^ "Anne Susannah Warburton (1745–1816), Lady Penrhyn | Art UK".
  2. ^ "Lady Penrhyn". First Fleet Fellowship Victoria Inc. 2011.
  3. ^ a b c Lloyd's Register (1786), sup. seq. no. L65.
  4. ^ British Library: Lady Penrhyn.
  5. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference LR1810 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Hackman (2001), p. 139.
  7. ^ "News". General Evening Post. No. 8194. London: M. Say. 9 May 1786. p. 6. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  8. ^ Byrnes, D. "The Blackheath Connection: The Phantom First Fleet to Australia". Retrieved 3 July 2012.