''Maitland'' was launched at

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in 1811. She made four voyages for the British

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(EIC) between 1812 and 1830. She also made three voyages

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convicts to Australia between 1840 and 1846. Thereafter she traded widely before she was wrecked c.1869.

Career

EIC voyages

EIC voyage #1 (1811-1812): Captain John Stevens sailed from Calcutta on 13 December 1811, bound for England. ''Maitland'' was at

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on 12 February 1812. She reached

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on 12 May and arrived at The Downs on 22 July.British Library: ''Maitland''.
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on 5 November 1812. Over a decade passed before ''Maitland'' again sailed for the EIC. EIC voyage #2 (1825): Captain John Lynch Studd sailed from The Downs on 18 June 1825, bound for

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. ''Maitland'' arrived at Bombay on 15 November. EIC voyage #3 (1828-1829): Captain Joseph Short sailed from The Downs on 2 July 1828, bound for Bengal. ''Maitland'' reached

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on 11 November and arrived at Calcutta on 19 January 1829. Homeward bound, she was at

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on 18 March and Saugor on 1 April. She reached St Helena on 23 June and arrived at The Downs on 18 August. EIC voyage #4 (1830-1831): Captain James Temple Brown sailed from The Downs on 21 June 1830, bound for Bengal. ''Maitland'' arrived at Calcutta on 13 November. Homeward bound, she was at

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9 February 1831. She reached the

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on 20 April and St Helena on 1 June. She arrived at The Downs on 4 August.

Convict transport

Captain George (or John) Baker sailed from

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on 22 March 1840 and arrived at Sydney on 14 July. ''Maitland'' had embarked 305 convicts and suffered three deaths ''en route''. ''Maitland'', Captain G. Thompson, sailed from Portsmouth on 1 September 1843. ''Maitland'' arrived at Sydney on 12 January 1844, and left the 25th. On 7 February 1844 ''Maitland'' delivered convicts to

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. She had embarked 199; no record of deaths. At Norfolk Island she embarked 338 convicts to transfer them to Hobart Town. She left the island on 14 February and arrived at Hobart Town on 3 March, though the convicts did not disembark until 14 March. Captain John Gray sailed from London on 26 June 1846, bound for Hobart Town. She arrived at

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on 9 November. She had embarked 299 convicts and she disembarked 291 at Port Phillip. She then sailed for Hobart Town, where she arrived on 27 October. There she disembarked her remaining six prisoners.

Later career

Fate

''Lloyd's Register'' for 1869 has the notation "Wrecked" by the entry for ''Maitland''.''Lloyd's Register'' (1869), Seq.№M122.
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Citations

References

* * * {{cite book, last=Phipps, first=John, (of the Master Attendant's Office, Calcutta), year=1840, title=A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time ..., publisher=Scott 1811 ships British ships built in India Age of Sail merchant ships of England Ships of the British East India Company Convict ships to New South Wales Convict ships to Tasmania Convict ships to Victoria (Australia) Convict ships to Norfolk Island Maritime incidents in 1868