History
United States
In service	1796
Fate	Burnt 18 January 1797
General characteristics
Tons burthen	280[1] (bm)

Indian Chief was an American vessel that appeared inLloyd's Register (LR) in 1797 but was destroyed in a fire in that year.

On 18 January 1797Indian Chief, Shaw, master, was at Falmouth when she caught fire. She had a cargo of 1200 casks ofpilchards that she was to take to the Straits of Gibraltar. She and her cargo were destroyed, but due to the assistance of the officers and men ofHMS Indefatigable, all aboard were saved.^[2]Indian Chief had come from Cornwall.^[3]

• 1790s ships
• Ships built in the United States
• Age of Sail merchant ships of the United States
• Maritime incidents in 1797
• Ship fires
• Shipwrecks of England

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