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United Kingdom
Name	Asia
Owner	1813:Edward Chapman, or Aaron Chapman 1820:Aaron Campbell (Managing owner)
Builder	Fishburn & Brodrick, Whitby
Launched	24 April 1813
Fate	Last listed 1850
General characteristics
Type	Brig
Tons burthen	455, or 458 (bm)
Length	118 ft 8 in (36.2 m)
Beam	29 ft 9 in (9.1 m)
Propulsion	Sail
Armament	10 × 18-pounder guns "of the New Construction"

Asia was a merchant barque built at Whitby in 1813. She made one voyage to India for the British East India Company (EIC) in 1820–21, and one voyage to Van Diemen's Land in 1827–28 transporting convicts. Asia then traded to the Mediterranean, but mostly to Quebec. She was last listed in 1850.

Mention is made of the ship in “Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer” by Samuel Thompson:

“...at length engaged passage in the bark Asia, 500 tons, rated A. No. 1, formerly an East Indiaman, and now bound for Quebec, to seek a cargo of white pine lumber for the London market.”

Origins

Asia was launched at Whitby in 1813. She then became a transport.

Asia first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1813 with Walker, master, Chapman, owner, and trade London transport.

Lloyd's Register for the years 1820 to 1823 does not show a voyage to India. However, the Register was only as accurate as the information owners chose to feed it. The Register of Shipping for 1821 does show a voyage to India. It has Asia, Patterson, master, Chapman, owner, sailing from London to Bombay, and then London to Quebec.

EIC voyage (1820–1821): Captain John Patterson sailed from the Downs on 4 June 1820, bound for Bombay. Asia arrived at Bombay on 26 September. Homeward bound, she was at the Cape of Good Hope on 27 February 1821, reached Saint Helena on 19 March, and arrived back at East India Dock on 31 May.

In 1825 Asia shifted her registry to London.

Convict transport: A table of convict voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land in 1828 Lloyd's Register, lists Asia, J. Edman, master, A. Chapman, owner, but does not specify the destination. A belated notation in Lloyd's Register for 1829 too advises that J. Edman was master of Asia in 1827.

Under the command of John Edman, Asia sailed from London, England on 1 August 1827, and arrived at Hobart Town on 30 November. She had embarked 158 male convicts, one of whom died on the voyage. Asia left Hobart Town on 19 December bound for Sydney arriving on 24 December. Asia left Sydney on 25 January bound for Isle de France.

Later career

Citations

1. Weatherill (1908), p. 158.
2. ^ Hackman (2001), p. 223.
3. ^ Bateson (1959), p. 308-309.
4. ^ Weatherill (1908), p. 124.
5. LR (1813), Supple.pages "A", Seq.№A91.
6. Register of Shipping (1821), Seq. №A1165.
7. British Library: Asia (7).
8. Bateson (1959), p. 331.
9. "Shipping Intelligence". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Friday 28 December 1827, p.2. Retrieved 3 February 2013.

References

• Bateson, Charles (1959). The Convict Ships. Brown, Son & Ferguson. OCLC 3778075.
• Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.
• Weatherill, Richard (1908). The ancient port of Whitby and its shipping. Whitby: Horne and Son.

• 1813 ships
• Convict ships to Tasmania
• Ships built in Whitby
• Ships of the British East India Company
• Age of Sail merchant ships
• Merchant ships of the United Kingdom