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Princess Charlotte (ship)

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Several vessels have been named '''''Princess Charlotte''''' for one of the many Princesses Charlotte:

* was an "extra ship’’ of the British [[East India Company]] (EIC). She made four voyages for the EIC. On her second voyage she suffered a short-lived mutiny and then spent almost a year as an armed ship in the service of the EIC, including a voyage to the [[Red Sea]]. A squadron of the French Navy captured her in the [[Visakhapatnam|Vizagapatam]] [[roadstead|roads]] in 1804, on her fourth voyage.
* was launched in Sunderland in 1813. She immediately started trading with the Indian Ocean and India under a license from the British [[East India Company]] (EIC). She made one voyage for the EIC, and she made two voyages [[transportation (punishment)|transporting]] [[convicts]] to Australia, one to [[Hobart Town]], [[Van Diemen's Land]], and one to [[Port Jackson]], New South Wales. She foundered in 1828 in the Bay of Bengal.
* was a 60-ton [[brig]] 1819 that disappeared in 1820 on a voyage between [[Hobart Town]] and [[Sydney]].

==See also==
* was an [[East Indiaman]] named for [[Princess Charlotte of Wales]]. She made nine voyages to Madras and Bengal for the EIC before she was broken up in 1831.



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