''Mildred'' was launched in 1797 at Hull. She made one voyage to Bengal for the British
East India Company
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(EIC). On her return she left for the West Indies. After she left Jamaica she was never heard from again.
Career and loss
''Mildred'' appeared in ''
Lloyd's Register
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'' in 1797 with M. Jordan, master, and trade Hull—Gravesend.
[''Lloyd's Register'' (1797), Supple. Seq.№_1.]
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The EIC engaged ''Mildred'' on 29 April 1798. Captain Michael Jordan acquired a letter of marque on 10 May 1797.[ He sailed from Torbay on 22 September 1797, bound for Bengal. ''Mildred'' was at St Helena on 1 December and at the Cape of Good Hope on 31 January 1798. She arrived at ]Calcutta
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on 3 May. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor
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on 11 August, the Cape on 22 October, and St Helena on 18 November. She arrived at the Downs on 3 February 1799.[British Library: ''Mildred''.]
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On her return, new owners decided to sail her in the West Indies trade. ''Lloyd's Register'' for 1799 shows her master changing from Jordan to Atkinson, her owner from Moxon to Sharp, and her trade from London—India to London—Jamaica.[''Lloyd's Register'' (1799), Seq.№410.]
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Captain Thomas Atkinson acquired a letter of marque on 13 July 1799.[
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Fate
''Mildred'' sailed from Jamaica for Savannah and London on 19 December 1799. She was never heard from again.['']Lloyd's List
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№4065.
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See also
*List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea
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