&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:A_voyage_round_the_world;_but_more_particularly_to_the_north-_west_coast_of_America-_performed_in_1785,_1786,_1787,_and_1788,_in_the_King_George_and_Queen_Charlotte,_Captains_Portlock_and_Dixon_(1789)_(14597098220).jpg) Queen Charlotte, Captain Dixon (1789) at Kealakekua Bay
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| History | |
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| Name | Queen Charlotte |
| Namesake | Charlotte, the queen consort of King George III |
| Owner | Etches & Co.[1] (King George's Sound Company) |
| Builder | Stockton |
| Launched | 1785[1] |
| Renamed | Montreal (1789) |
| Fate | Seized 1 February 1793 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 200,[2] or 220,[1] (bm) |
| Sail plan | Snow |
| Complement | 33[2] |
Queen Charlotte was a British merchant ship launched in 1785 at Stockton for Etches & Co. Between September 1785 and 1788 she made a circumnavigation of the world in company with another ship that the company owned, the King George. The two vessels were engaged in the Maritime Fur Trade in the Pacific northwest. They sold their furs in China and returned to England with cargoes that they were carrying back for the British East India Company (EIC). In 1789 she was renamed Montreal. She was at Bordeaux at the outbreak of war with France in 1793 and the French government seized her.
- ^ a b c Lloyd's Register (1786), Seq. №Q9.
- ^ a b Pethick (1976), pp. 96–100.