Lusitania (1805 ship)

In 1813 Lusitania's owner was Buckle, and her master changed from Bennett to Johnston.[4]

On 27 November 1813 Lusitania and four other merchant vessels left Portsmouth in a convoy under escort by HMS Severn. The other four were:

• Blendon Hall, 473 tons (bm), Barr, master, which had been sailing from London to Bermuda;
• John O'Gaunt, 426 tons (bm), P. Inglis, master, which had been sailing from London to Martinique;
• Aurora, Scheidt, master, which had been sailing to Amelia Island; and,
• Superb, 130 tons (bm), R. Roberts, master, which had been sailing from Gibraltar to England.

Due to a heavy storm, the five merchantmen lost contact with the convoy and its escort. On 6 December they were in the Atlantic Ocean when the French frigate Clorinde captured all five (44°30′N 10°30′W).[6] The French took off the crews of four vessels and scuttled three. They kept Lusitania as a cartel and put all their captives aboard her. In their haste, they failed to sink Blenden Hall. They then permitted Lusitania to sail to a British port.[6]

On 18 December Challenger brought Blenden Hall into Plymouth. There, Blenden Hall was reunited with her crew, who had arrived that same day on Lusitania.[7]

The Register of Shipping (RS) for 1823 showed Lusitania with Langdon, master, Buckle, owner, and trade London-New South Wales.[8][lower-alpha 1] She had departed London 6 July 1821 with general cargo and passengers. She had arrived in the River Derwent, Van Diemen's Land on 28/29 October 1821.[10] Langdon made a second voyage that reached Sydney in May 1823.

In 1825 Lusitania underwent a large repair. Thereafter she is described as a bark.[11]

Also, on 10 October 1825 Lusitania, Biels, master, rescued the six crewmen of Three Brothers, which had foundered in the Mediterranean Sea at (37°48′N 25°00′E).[12]

Lusitania left Britain on 21 October 1826 for a whaling voyage to Timor. Her owner was Thomas Sturge & Co., and her master was Robert Ross. She was at St Iago, Cape Verde, on 5 December. She sighted the Australian coast near Shark Bay on 21 April 1827. By 20 May she was at Timor, where she landed five Dutch missionaries. A few days later, on 1 June, Lusitania was at Coupang. Between 21 and 25 November 1828 and 2 February 1829 she was whaling off New Guinea.[2] In November 1828 she was at Saint George's Channel, where she encountered many "old friends" among the locals,[13] suggesting that she had been that way before. On 2 February she spoke Cyrus. Nine days later Lusitania was at Carteret Bay, where she traded with islanders who had come some distance overland to trade a hog for an old whaling lance.[14] Lusitania was again at Coupang on 27 April. By 1829 illness aboard Lusitania was so bad that she had to return home.[15] She returned via Delagoa Bay and the Cape of Good Hope. She returned to Britain on 26 January 1830 with 500 casks and 36 tanks of whale oil.[2]

On her return Sturge sold Lusitania and she became a London coaster.