Frederick and Maria (1810 ship)

Frederick and Maria was launched in 1810 at Chittagong as the country ship Harriett Shakespeare, and quickly renamed. She visited Port Jackson in 1811, and otherwise traded in the Far East. She disappeared in a hurricane in 1817.

Career
Frederick and Maria, Captain M'Neelance, arrived at Port Jackson on 19 June 1811 from Bengal, with merchandise. She left on 28 October. She also brought some convicts from Bengal. The merchant and agent John C. Burton reported that the property he had shipped on her was worth 81,348 ruppees 15 anna 2 pice (approx. £10,170).

Captain A. Acres, master of Frederick and Maria, was one of seven captains of country ships that signed a letter to the British government urging it to do something about their detention at Chuanpee as a consequence of a dispute between the government at Canton and the British East India Company.

Lloyd's List reported that Frederick and Maria had been at about -56°N, 6°W on 26 July 1816 and on her way to Madras and Bengal.

Loss
Frederick and Maria foundered off Mauritius in March 1817 during a hurricane, with the loss of all aboard. She was on her way from Calcutta for London. Lloyd's List reported that the ship Frederick Maria, Fish, master, and the ship Eliza, M'Lardie, master, from Calcutta and bound to Île de France with rice, "are supposed to have foundered at sea."

Citations and references
Citations

References
 * Bladen, Frank Murcot, ed. (1901) Historical Records of New South Wales: Bligh and Macquarie. 1809, 1810, 1811. Vol. 7. (New South Wales: C. Potter).
 * Hackman, Rowan (2001) Ships of the East India Company. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society). ISBN 0-905617-96-7
 * Historical Records of New South Wales: Series 1 - Governors' Dispatches to and from England, January, 1816 to December, 1818. (1917). Vol. 9.
 * Phipps, John, (of the Master Attendant's Office, Calcutta), (1840) A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time .... (Scott).