Warren Hastings (1789 Ship)
''Warren Hastings'' was built in 1789 at Kolkatta, Calcutta, India. Her registry was transferred to Great Britain in 1796. In 1805 she was sold and her new owners renamed her ''Speke''. She made three voyages Transportation (punishment), transporting convicts from Britain to New South Wales. After her first convict voyage she engaged in whale hunting, whaling. Career The cost of ''Warren Hasting''s (''Speke''s) hull, copper sheathing, coppered, and with masts and yard, was 55,000 Sicca rupees. ''Warren Hastings'' was among the country ships reported at Canton in 1789. On 7 September 1796 ''Warren Hastings'' was admitted to the Registry in Great Britain. She entered ''Lloyd's Register'' in 1796 with master W. Fleming, and owner Fairlie & Co. ''Lloyd's Register'' continues to list ''Warren Hastings'' from 1799 with unchanged information. However, in 1801, the ''Register of Shipping'' shows a change of ownership to W. Lennox in 1801, and no longer lists her in 1802. The gove ...
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Kingdom Of Great Britain
The Kingdom of Great Britain (officially Great Britain) was a Sovereign state, sovereign country in Western Europe from 1 May 1707 to the end of 31 December 1800. The state was created by the 1706 Treaty of Union and ratified by the Acts of Union 1707, which united the kingdoms of Kingdom of England, England (which included Wales) and Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland to form a single kingdom encompassing the whole island of Great Britain and its outlying islands, with the exception of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. The unitary state was governed by a single Parliament of Great Britain, parliament at the Palace of Westminster, but distinct legal systems – English law and Scots law – remained in use. The formerly separate kingdoms had been in personal union since the 1603 "Union of the Crowns" when James VI of Scotland became King of England and King of Ireland. Since James's reign, who had been the first to refer to himself as "king of Great Britain", a political un ...
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