Ship Details
Rig
East India Company Immigrant/Convict Transport
Built
1782
Built In
Tonnage
454
Demise
Scuttled in 1811 after capture by French
Description
Bellona was a three-decker merchantman launched in 1782 at Limehouse by Woolcombe for Boyd & Co. She then traded for a decade before, in 1792, commencing a series of four voyages for the British East India Company as an "extra ship", that is, on a charter contract. During the first of these voyages she transported convicts from Britain to New South Wales. French privateers captured her and the British Royal Navy recaptured her, the Royal Navy seized her once, and then finally a French privateer captured her in 1811 and scuttled her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellona_(1782_ship) (accessed on 29/9/2017)
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