History | |
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Denmark-Norway | |
Launched | 1806 |
Captured | c.1808 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Lady Hamilton |
Namesake | Emma, Lady Hamilton |
Acquired | 1808 by purchase of a prize |
Fate | Wrecked 11 December 1831 |
General characteristics | |
Tons burthen | 340[1] (bm) |
Armament | 8 × 18-pounder guns "of the New Construction" |
Lady Hamilton was a Danish vessel of another name, taken in prize. She first appeared under British ownership in 1808. She became a transport and then a whaler in the British southern whale fishery. She was wrecked in December 1831.