Several vessels have been named ''Trial'', or a now obsolete variant of that word: *'' Tryall'' was an

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of the English

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. She was launched in 1621. She was under the command of

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when she was wrecked on the

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off the north-west coast of

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in 1622. Her crew were the first Englishmen to sight or land on Australia. The wreck is Australia's oldest known shipwreck. *''Tryall'' (1649) was the first vessel built in

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. * was launched at

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as a packet for the British East India Company. She made two voyages to England. In 1782 she narrowly escaped being seized by mutineers. After her return to Calcutta in 1786 she became a pilot schooner for the Bengal Pilot Service. A French privateer captured her in 1797. * was launched at Belfast in 1803. Apparently for most of her career she was initially an Irish coaster. A French privateer captured and burnt her in 1810 while she was returning to Ireland from Gibraltar. * was a ship that first appears in 1808 and that was seized by

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and eventually wrecked on the

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in 1816.

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