List of ships named Camden

Several ships have been named Camden:

  • Camden, of 300 tons (bm), was launched at Liverpool in 1760 under another name. She first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) as Camden in 1776, after having been named Mary and James,[1] and immediately before that Montego Bay. Between 1780 and 1784 she made two voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She had embarked 1,232 captives and she arrived in the West Indies with 1,119, for a 9% mortality rate.[2][3] Then between 1784 and 1786 she made one voyage as a whaler in the British southern whale fishery.[4] She then became the Greenland whaler Leviathan, in the British northern whale fishery.[5] Between 1786 and 1793 Leviathan made eight annual whaling voyages; damages in 1791 cost her that season. In 1794 she became a West Indiaman, and then a transport. Towards the end of 1796 a French privateer captured her.[6]
  • Camden, of 48 tons (bm), was built in 1794 at Cork. She made one voyage as a sealer and was lost on the coast of Patagonia in March 1826.
  • Camden (1799 ship) was a merchant ship built upon the River Thames. She made two voyages transporting convicts from England to Australia. She was wrecked in 1836.
  • Camden (1813 ship) was built at Whitby and served as a general trader for much of her career, though in 1820-21 she made one voyage to Bombay for the British East India Company (EIC). Between 1833 and 1837 she was a Greenland whaler out of the Whitby whale fishery. She was last listed in 1850.
The missionary brig Camden (1838); National Maritime Museum (Greenwich)

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Citations

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  1. ^ LR (1776), Seq.no.446.
  2. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Camden voyage #80728.
  3. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Camden voyage #80729.
  4. ^ British Southern Whale Fishery – voyages: Camden voyage no.BV0153.00.
  5. ^ LR (1787), Seq.no.L308.
  6. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 2871. 11 November 1796. hdl:2027/uc1.c3049068.
  7. ^ Pawlyn (2003), p. 115.
  8. ^ Lloyd's Register (1846), Seq.no.50.

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