Mangles (1803 ship)

History
United Kingdom
NameMangles
OwnerJohn William Buckle/Buckle & Co.
BuilderHudson, Bacon, & Co. Calcutta
Launched8 February 1803
FateLast listed in 1844
General characteristics
Tons burthen542,[1] or 543,[2] or 549,[3] or 5495194,[4] or 561, or 574,[5] or 5745394,[6] or 594 (bm)
Length
  • Overall: 119 ft 10 in (36.5 m)
  • Keel: 94 ft 4+34 in (28.8 m)
Beam33 ft 1 in (10.1 m)
Depth of hold17 ft 2 in (5.2 m)
Complement70[5]
Armament
  • 1804: 20 × 18-pounder carronades[5]
  • 1815:18 × 12-pounder guns
NotesTeak-built

Mangles was built in Calcutta in 1803 and immediately sailed for England. Including that voyage, she made a total of six voyages as an "extra ship" for the British East India Company (EIC). Between her first as second voyages for the EIC a French privateer captured her. Mangles also made nine voyages transporting convicts to Australia: eight voyages to Port Jackson, one to Hobart Town, and one in which she delivered some convicts to Port Jackson but carried most of her charges to Norfolk Island. She was last listed in 1844.

  1. ^ Phipps (1840), p. 100.
  2. ^ Phipps (1840), p. 138.
  3. ^ British Library: Mangles.
  4. ^ Hackman (2001), p. 152.
  5. ^ a b c "Letter of Marque, p.75 – Retrieved 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  6. ^ House of Commons (1814), p. 87.