History
Great Britain
Name	Archimedes
Namesake	Archimedes
Builder	Durham, Sunderland,
Launched	1797 or 1796
Fate	Wrecked 24 December 1811
General characteristics
Tons burthen	245 (bm)
Armament	8 × 18-poundercarronades

Archimedes was launched at Sunderland in 1796 or 1797. She traded between England and the Baltic until the British government chartered her as a transportc. 1809. She was lost in December 1811 while coming back from the Baltic.

Archimedes first appeared inLloyd's Register (LR) in 1797 with J.Hill, master and owner, and trade Liverpool–London.^[1] She then traded between England and the Baltic.

Lloyd's List (LL) reported on 1 June 1798 thatArchimedes, Howard, master, had been taken while sailing fromHaambro to Petersburg.^[2] However,Lloyd's List showedArchimedes, Howard, master, in Elsinor in mid-July and Memel in early August.

Archimedes was a unique name inLloyd's Register so the vessel taken and reappearing may be the sameArchimedes as the one of this article; she disappeared fromLloyd's Register between and 1803. In a process that is currently unclearArchimedes returned to British ownership. She reappeared in theRegister of Shipping in 1800, the first year in which theRegister published, even though she did not reappear inLloyd's Register until 1803.

TheRegister of Shipping (RS) for 1812 showedArchimedes with Haley, master, Corsbie, owner, and trade London transport. The entry carries the annotation "LOST".^[3]

On 24–25 December 1811 a tremendous storm destroyed several vessels of an English convoy coming back to England from the Baltic.HMS Hero, under captainJames Newman-Newman, was wrecked on the Haak Sands at the mouth of theTexel with the loss of all but 12 of her crew.^[4] Ten of the transports ofHero's convoy were also lost. One of them wasArchimedes, whose crew, however, was saved.^[5] The other escort for the transports,HMS Grasshopper ended up trapped near the Helder and had to surrender to the Dutch. The number of men saved onArchimedes andGrasshopper was reported as 114,^[5] most of whom would have been fromGrasshopper. Three of the other transports lost wereFlora,Centurion, andRosina. Part ofFlora's crew, like that ofArchimedes, was saved. The master and 17 men fromRosina were lost, as was the entire crew ofCenturion.^[6]

• Gosset, William Patrick (1986).The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. Mansell.ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.

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