Several vessels have been named
Cumbrian
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, for
Cumbria:
* was launched at
Bombay, possibly at the
Bombay Dockyard. She was a "country ship", generally trading east of the
Cape of Good Hope
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. She also made three voyages for the British
East India Company. She was sold in 1835.
* was launched at Shields. Initially, ''Cumbrian'' was a transport. After 1814 or so she became a
West Indiaman. In 1817 she made one voyage to Bengal, sailing under a licence from the British
East India Company. In 1819 she became a
whaler, sailing from
Kingston upon Hull to the Northern Whale Fishery. From 1835 on she left whaling and started trading more widely, to North America,
Bombay, and Africa. She was driven ashore in August 1844, refloated, and subsequently condemned.
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