# Matilda (ship)

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Several vessels have borne the name '''''Matilda''''':
thumb|Sailing ship ''Matilda'', 1849
* {{ship||Matilda|1790 ship}} was a ship built in France and launched in 1779. She first appears in British records in 1790 as a [whaling ship](/source/whaling_ship) and transported convicts to Australia in 1791; she wrecked in 1792.
* {{ship||Matilda|1803 ship}} was launched at [Calcutta](/source/Kolkata) in 1803. She spent most of her career in private trade in India or in trading between England and India. She participated in the British [invasion of Java (1811)](/source/invasion_of_Java_(1811)) and made one voyage for the British [East India Company](/source/East_India_Company) (EIC). She grounded and was wrecked in March 1822.
* {{ship||Matilda|1812 ship}} was an American privateer schooner out of Philadelphia that the British [letter of marque](/source/letter_of_marque) {{ship||Lion|1809 ship|2}} captured in July 1813, that the American privateer ''Argus'' recaptured, that {{HMS|Revolutionnaire|1794|6}} recaptured, and that the American privateer {{ship||General Armstrong}} again recaptured
* {{HMS|Esk|1813|6}} was a {{sclass|Cyrus|ship-sloop}} launched at Ipswich in 1813. During the [War of 1812](/source/War_of_1812) she captured one United States privateer, and fought an inconclusive action with another. Between 1825 and 1827 ''Esk'' was part of the [West Africa Squadron](/source/West_Africa_Squadron), engaged in suppressing the trans-Atlantic slave trade, during which period she captured a number of [slave ships](/source/slave_ships). A prize she had taken also engaged in a notable [single ship action](/source/single_ship_action). The Royal Navy sold ''Esk'' in 1829. Green, Wigram, and Green purchased her and between 1829 and 1845 she made four voyages in the British [southern whale fishery](/source/Whaling_in_the_United_Kingdom) as the [whaler](/source/whaler) ''Matilda''.

==See also==
* {{HMS|Matilda}}, two vessels of the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy)

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