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''Mornington'' was a British merchant vessel built at Calcutta, of teak, by J. Gilmore & Co. for Fairlie and Co. She made three voyages under charter to the British East India Company (EIC). On the third French privateers twice captured her and Royal Navy vessels twice recaptured her. She is last listed in 1808. ==Career== ;EIC voyage #1 (1799-1801): Under the command of Captain James Carnegy, ''Mornington'' left Calcutta on 30 December 1799. She was at Saugor on 23 January 1800, reached St Helena on 8 June, and arrived at The Downs on 9 September.〔(National Archives (United Kingdom): ''Mornington''. )〕 On 3 December 1800 ''Mornington'' sailed from England for Bombay and Bengal.〔 ;EIC voyage #2 (1801-02): Captain George Kelso was in the Hugli River on 19 May 1801. On 23 June ''Mornington'' was at Kedgeree, and on 19 July Saugor. By 30 October she had reached the Cape of Good Hope, and by 20 November she was at St Helena. She arrived at The Downs on 19 January 1802.〔 ;EIC voyage #3 (1803-04): Captain Kelso sailed for Madras on 16 May 1804. She left Bengal on 5 July in company with ''Maria'', ''Mornington'', and ''Princess Mary''.〔(''Lloyd's List'', n° 4513 - accessed 12 October 2015. )〕 The French privateer Nicholas Surcouf in ''Caroline'' captured ''Mornington'' on 14 August 1804. However, recaptured ''Mornington'', before Captain Fallonard of the brig ''Île de France'' recaptured ''Mornington''.〔Austen (1935), p.94.〕 The British recaptured ''Mornington'' yet again as she was reported at St Helena on 6 October,〔 and completed her voyage on 18 December 1804.〔 ;Later career Captain George Kelso received a letter of marque for ''Mornington'' on 22 February 1805.〔 Lloyd's Register of 1808 carries the ''Mornington'', of 750 tons, built nine years earlier in Calcutta. It gives her master as "Kelso", and her owners as Fairlie & Co. ''Mornington'' was reported at St Helena on 23 September 1810.〔(''Lloyd's List'', n° 4511 - accessed 12 October 2015. )〕 Captain David Dunlop, of the ''Mornington'', was reported to have died at Calcutta on 22 September 1809.〔''The Scots Magazine, Or, General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics'', Volume 71, p.398.〕 From then on ''Mornington'' appears in lists of vessels based at Calcutta. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mornington (1799 ship)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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