Several vessels have been named ''Chesterfield''.
* was built in in 1781, but it is not clear where and under what name. She arrived in England in 1791. Between 1792 and 1798 ''Chesterfield'' made three voyages to the
southern whale fishery. On the first of these, her crew was involved in a sanguinary encounter with the local inhabitants of an island in
Torres Strait. Also in 1793, on the first voyage, her captain named the
Chesterfield Islands
The Chesterfield Islands (''îles Chesterfield'' in French) are a French archipelago of New Caledonia located in the Coral Sea, northwest of Grande Terre, the main island of New Caledonia. The archipelago is 120 km long and 70 km b ...
after his vessel, or her namesake. After her whaling voyages new owners sailed her to trade with the Mediterranean. A Spanish privateer captured her in 1805.
* , of 207 tons (
bm), was launched at Dartmouth in 1800. She was a
Falmouth Post Office packet service
The Post Office Packet Service dates to Tudor times and ran until 1823, when the Admiralty assumed control of the service. Originally, the Post Office used packet ships to carry mail packets to and from British embassies, colonies and outposts. ...
packet. In 1814 she captured a Guernsey privateer in a case of a
blue-on-blue incident.
In early 1815 she repelled an attack by a United States privateer in a
single-ship action
A single-ship action is a naval engagement fought between two warships of opposing sides, excluding submarine engagements; called so because there is a single ship on each side. The following is a list of notable single-ship actions.
Single-shi ...
.
* was launched in 1806 at Portland. She served from November 1806 to her capture in October 1811, as a
Post Office Packet Service, sailing between Weymouth and the Channel Islands. A French privateer captured her at the end of October 1811. She then became a French privateer that made several captures before the
Royal Navy recaptured her.
See also
* , which was launched in 1781 as an
East Indiaman
East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India trading companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries. The term is used to refer to vesse ...
. She made four voyages for the British
East India Company (EIC) before she was sold in 1794 for breaking up.
* – one of three vessels of the
Royal Navy.
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