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Probably, from the tonnages and voyages, a ship, though sometimes listed as a snow, the William Neilson (or possibly, the William Nelson !) was built at Maryport in 1813. She was registered at Maryport and initially involved in the trade to the Caribbean. She had the misfortune to be taken by an American privateer shortly before the peace treaty between Great Britain and the United States was signed in December 1814.
Lloyd's List, Friday, 23rd December
1814, page 1, col.1;
" The William Neilson, Hogarth, from Quebec to Liverpool, arrived at
the Pile of Foudry on Saturday; she was taken 12th inst. in lat.54,
long.12 by the Harpy Privateer, of 14 guns and 150 men, and given up to the crews of the Garland, from St.Vincent's to Newfoundland, and the Jane, Brown, from Miramichi to the Clyde, which she had previously captured; the Garland was sent to America and the Jane burnt."
In about 1818 William Neilson was sold to Sherlock and Co. and became a licensed India ship, sailing to Bombay and Batavia from Liverpool.
The William Neilson foundered in a storm whilst leaving the Mersey on the 8th October 1832. Bound for New Orleans under the command of Capt.S.Platt, she had been towed outside the Mersey bar by a steam tug, but the storm had forced her back onto the banks, where she was wrecked, lost with all hands. Three passengers were included amongst the dead, a Mr.Somerville, 'a theatrical gentleman', and his two daughters. Wreckage and the ship's letter-bag were washed ashore at Bootle. The Grecian was lost in the same storm.
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