Harleston (ship) explained

Peter Everitt Mestaer owned two ships named Harleston, apparently in quick succession selling one and buying the other, with the result that they are readily conflated:^[1]

• was launched at Ipswich in 1811 for Mestaer. She made one voyage under charter to the British East India Company. Around 1813 she apparently sailed for Bengal and then became a country ship in India; she was still listed with Bengal Registry in 1823, but not in 1829.
• was an American vessel launched in 1810 at Wiscasset, Maine, and probably taken in prize. Mestaer purchased her c.1813, and she became a West Indiaman until she was sold on Mestaer's death. She became a whaler and on her way home from her second whaling voyage was condemned in 1826 at Mauritius as unseaworthy.

References

• Hackman, Rowan (2001) Ships of the East India Company. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society).

Notes and References

1. Hackman (2001), p.122.