_RMG_J3352.png) Plan of theEarl Talbot (1796), which the Royal Navy purchased on the stocks and launched asHMS Agincourt (1796). TheEarl Talbot of 1797 was of the same size as its predecessor and almost surely used the same plans | |
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| Name | Earl Talbot |
| Namesake | Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot |
| Owner | William Moffatt[1] |
| Builder | Perry, Blackwall |
| Laid down | 1796 |
| Launched | 12 January 1797[1] |
| Fate | Wrecked October 1800 |
| General characteristics[2] | |
| Tons burthen | 1200 (rated),[3] or 1428,[4] or 142810⁄94,[1] or 1478[4] (bm) |
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| Beam | 43 ft 3 in (13.2 m) |
| Depth of hold | 17 ft 6 in (5.3 m) |
| Propulsion | Sail |
| Complement | |
| Armament | |
Earl Talbot was launched in 1797 as anEast Indiaman for the BritishEast India Company (EIC). She made one complete voyage toMadras and China between 1797 and 1798. She was lost in October 1800 on her second voyage for the EIC.
She had been the follow on replacement of an earlier vessel commissioned by the EIC from the Blackwall yard, Mr. Perry; which had been requisitioned on the stocks by the Admiralty in 1796,[5] and launched on 23 July 1796 asHMS Agincourt.[6]
EIC Voyage #1 (1797-1798): Captain Jeremiah Dawkins received aletter of marque on 28 January 1797. (He had been captain of the predecessorEarl Talbot, which had been sold in 1793 for breaking up.) He sailed from Portsmouth on 18 March, bound for Madras and China.Earl Talbot reached Madras on 18 March.[2] Dawkins died on 10 July. His replacement was his First Mate, John Dale.[7][8]
The British government briefly hired her to use her as transport for an attack on Manila. A peace treaty with Spain forestalled the attack and the government released her after she had spent some 59 days waiting (for which it paid £1598 indemurrage).
Earl Talbot reached Penang on 5 September, and Malacca on 15 October, and arrived atWhampoa anchorage on 19 December.[2] Homeward bound,Earl Talbot crossed theSecond Bar on 1 March 1798, reachedSt Helena on 5 August, and arrived inthe Downs on 18 October.[2]
EIC Voyage #2 (1800-loss): Captain John Hamilton Dempster received a letter of marque on 11 December 1799.[4] He sailed from Portsmouth on 7 January 1800, bound forBombay and China.[2] She left Bombay on 17 August.[9] On 2 October she and several other Indiamen were sighted at theAnambas Islands.[10]
Later that monthEarl Talbot struck on thePerates, in the South China Sea some 300 miles to the southeast of Hong Kong, during a gale.[a] She foundered with the loss of all her passengers and crew, who numbered some 150 persons.[9]Houghton was sailing from China to Bombay when she sighted the wreckage.Houghton reported the loss at Bombay. The EIC sentHCS Intrepid andComet from Bombay to search for the cause ofEarl Talbot's loss and to pick up any possible survivors.[1] However, both disappeared without a trace and were presumed to have foundered at sea.[11] The EIC put the value of the cargo it had lost onEarl Talbot at £2,603.[3]
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