''Amphitrite'' was built at Appledore, Torridge, (equally Bideford), and launched in 1802. Under various owners and masters she traded across the North Atlantic and to the Baltic. She wrecked in 1833 with heavy loss of life while

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female convicts to

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Career

Sources disagree on ''Amphitrite''s year of launch. ''

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'' and the ''Register of Shipping'' in various volumes report it as 1802, 1804, or even 1816. However, ''Amphitrite'' appears in ''Lloyd's Register'' in 1802 with R. Hogg as master and Hogg & Co. as owner. Her trade is given as

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. The data in the table below comes from the ''Register of Shipping''.

Incidents

On 12 January 1808 ''Amphitrite'', Colburn, master, was driven onshore at Ryde, but was gotten off without damage. On 21 October 1808 as ''Amphitrite'' was sailing from Halifax to Bedec,

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, and London, she was driven on shore near

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, Nova Scotia. She was gotten off on 6 November, but then grounded again near Bedec. Her crew was saved. On 28 October 1814 ''Amphitrite'', Ferguson, master, was sailing from to Petersburgh to Glasgow when she got on shore at Gothland. It was expected that she would be got off. A report a week later stated that she had been gotten off and taken into

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. The ''Register of Shipping'' for 1833 (published in 1832), shows ''Amphitrite'' with R. Murray, master, Lyall & Co., owner, and trade Portsmouth transport, changing to London–New South Wales.''Register of Shipping'' (1833), Seq.№A668.
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Loss

Captain John Hunter sailed ''Amphitrite'' from

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on 25 August 1833, bound for New South Wales. She had embarked 108 female convicts and 12 children. While sailing off

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, France she encountered a gale that blew her ashore on 31 August. Hunter refused offers of aid from the shore, due to his concern that if the prisoners got on shore some might escape, and his belief that a rising tide would free her. The ship subsequently broke up with the loss of 133 lives; only three crewmen survived."Dreadful Shipwreck Off Boulogne." ''Times'' [London, England] 4 Sept. 1833: 5. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 27 Apr. 2018.
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