Macclesfield

Posted by AvM on Wednesday 17th of April 2024 21:37

Derby Mercury - Thursday 28 December 1732

From Wye's Letter, December 26.

Another of the Ships late in the Service of our East India Company, viz. the Macclesfield, of 800 Tuns, and 40 Guns, is purchased for the King of Spain, (he is richly refitted, and beatifierd and will sail next Week for Cadiz)

Posted by AvM on Wednesday 17th of April 2024 21:34

MACCLESFIELD. Ship. 1720-1732.
475 bm.
10.1720: Launched on the River Thames for Robert Hudson. Captain Robert Hudson Jr.
1) 5.2.1721 - 19.5.1722: China direct.
2) 30.1.1724 - 9.8.1725: China and Madras.
Sold to Dodding Braddyll.
3) 21.12.1727 - 25.5.1729: China direct.
4) 14.12.1730 - 1.6.1732: China direct.
31.8.1732: Sold at Lloyd's Coffee House.

Posted by Stephen Smith on Wednesday 17th of April 2024 09:41

Doing some work on an extensive archive of letters and other documents in Wiltshire History Centre. Archive reference 2664/3/4D/2/10 contains a bill of sale of 1/16 of the 'good new ship, Macclesfield, now in the River Thames': from Robert Hudson, senior, London, merchant, to Mr Henry Davenport, London, merchant, 20 January 1720/1721. Burthen is stated to be '484 tuns or thereabouts'.