Grand Turk (ship) explained

Grand Turk is the name of several ships.

• , a 300-ton U.S. privateer during the American Revolutionary War, built in 1780 for Elias Hasket Derby and owned by the Derby mercantile house, and was the first U.S. ship on the Old China Trade.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• , of 564 tons (bm), built at Salem, Massachusetts. She is no longer listed after 1800.^[5]
• , had been launched in 1812 at Wiscasset, Maine for a group of 30 investors from Salem, Massachusetts. She was of 309 tons burthen and 102-ft in length. She made five voyages as a privateer under a letter of marque for the War of 1812. During these cruises she captured over 30 vessels. She also held a letter of marque from 1815 for the Second Barbary War that was never used. In May 1814, the Post Office Packet Service packet from Falmouth, Cornwall repelled an attack by Grand Turk in a single ship action.^{[6] [7] [4] [8] [9]}
• , a replica Napoleonic era three-masted French frigate built in 1996.^[10]
• , was a frigate of 22 guns that entered the French Navy in 1845 and that the British Royal Navy captured on 4 June 1745. She was sold in 1749.

See also

• Grand Turk (disambiguation)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Salem Maritime National Historic Site . 1940 . Salem Maritime Guidebook . National Park Service .
2. Memoir of Elias Hasket Derby, Merchant of Salem, Massachusetts . Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review . February 1857 . 36 . 2 .
3. Book: The Derbys of Salem, Massachusetts : A Study of Eighteenth Century Commerce Carried on by a Family of Typical New England Merchants . Robert E. Peabody . 1908 . 24–28 .
4. Book: A History of American Privateers . Edgar Stanton Maclay . 1899 . XIV. Cruises of the Grand Turk .
5. Essex Institute Historical Collections, (1904), Vol. 40, p.219.
6. Web site: Legendary ships of Salem . Gordon Harris . Historic Ipswich .
7. A Ship-Model Vane . 73 . Popular Science . August 1927 . E.A. McCann . Arthur Wakeling .
8. Web site: H.M. Packet Hinchinbrook and Privateer Grand Turk, May 1, 1814 . Getty Images .
9. Web site: The situation of H.M. Packet Hinchinbrook at the close of an Engagement with the American Privateer Grand Turk of Salem on the 1 of May 1814 . PAI6542 . National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK .
10. Book: Great Sailing Ships of the World . Chapman . Otmar Schäuffelen . 2005 . 9781588163844 . 143 .