Phoenix
Phoenix was a British merchant vessel launched in 1810 that later completed East India Company and convict-transport voyages before being wrecked in 1829.
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Phoenix was a British merchant vessel launched in 1810 and recorded in Lloyd's Register as a one-year-old ship in 1811. The surviving records identify Wilson as her master and Blacket & Co. as her owner at that stage. Initially engaged in transport between London and the West Indies, she had shifted by 1813 to general transport from London. During this period she was also described as heavily armed, reflecting the security risks associated with merchant shipping in the early nineteenth century. Her most notable commercial voyage was undertaken under charter to the British East India Company. Captain William Gordon sailed from Falmouth on 12 June 1820 for Bengal and Madras. Phoenix reached São Tiago on 28 June and Calcutta on 14 October. On the return passage she called at Diamond Harbour and Kedgeree before reaching Madras on 3 February 1821 and The Downs on 14 July. This voyage placed the vessel within the long-distance maritime network connecting Britain with the Indian subcontinent. Phoenix subsequently became a convict transport. Under Captain Thomas Weatherhead and surgeon Evan Evans, she left Portsmouth on 5 January 1822 for Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania. The voyage proceeded via Rio de Janeiro and lasted 135 days, ending with her arrival at Hobart on 20 May. She carried 184 male convicts, two of whom died during the passage. A detachment of the 3rd Regiment of Foot guarded the prisoners, accompanied by ten women and ten children. After the convicts were landed on 25 May, Phoenix continued to Sydney to disembark the guards and their families. The vessel made two further convict voyages to New South Wales. On her first, Captain Alexander Anderson sailed from Dublin and reached Port Jackson on 25 December 1826. Phoenix had embarked 190 male convicts and landed 189, with one death recorded during the voyage. On her second, Captain Thomas Couzens—or Curzens in some accounts—departed Spithead on 28 March 1828 and arrived at Port Jackson on 14 July with all 190 embarked convicts successfully landed. Phoenix's career ended at Simon's Bay, South Africa, on 19 July 1829. She had been sailing from Ceylon with passengers and a miscellaneous cargo when she wrecked on the seaward side of the feature now known as Phoenix Shoal. No passengers were lost, and part of the cargo was salvaged. The ship is therefore remembered primarily through maritime, East India Company, and Australian convict-transport history rather than as a continuing commercial brand. The supplied French food-industry classification does not match the authoritative subject, which is a nineteenth-century British merchant and transport ship.
History
Phoenix entered the maritime record shortly after her launch in 1810. Lloyd's Register's 1811 supplement listed her as a one-year-old vessel under the command of Wilson and ownership of Blacket & Co., with London transport as her trade. The entry was later amended to show a London–West Indies route. By 1813, her employment had changed again: she was operating as a general transport out of London and had acquired substantial armament. In 1820 the British East India Company chartered Phoenix for a single voyage to Bengal and Madras. Captain William Gordon departed Falmouth on 12 June 1820. After calling at São Tiago, the ship reached Calcutta in October. The homeward voyage included stops at Diamond Harbour, Kedgeree, and Madras, followed by arrival at The Downs in July 1821. Phoenix's later career was dominated by government-assigned convict transportation. In January 1822 she left Portsmouth under Captain Thomas Weatherhead, with Evan Evans serving as surgeon, and carried 184 male convicts to Hobart in Van Diemen's Land. The passage via Rio de Janeiro took 135 days. Two convicts died en route. The ship also carried a military guard from the 3rd Regiment of Foot and the families of members of that detachment. After disembarking the prisoners at Hobart, Phoenix proceeded to Sydney to land the guard and accompanying families. Her first voyage to New South Wales as a convict transport took place in 1826. Sailing from Dublin under Alexander Anderson, she arrived at Port Jackson on 25 December with 189 of the 190 embarked male convicts. A second New South Wales voyage followed in 1828. Thomas Couzens commanded the ship from Spithead to Port Jackson, where all 190 convicts were landed on 14 July. The ship was wrecked at Simon's Bay, South Africa, on 19 July 1829. The vessel had been sailing from Ceylon with passengers and a miscellaneous cargo. Contemporary accounts state that no passengers were lost and that some of the cargo was recovered. The wreck occurred on the seaward side of the maritime feature now called Phoenix Shoal. Phoenix's documented history illustrates the varied functions of early nineteenth-century merchant shipping: private trade, imperial chartering, and penal transportation.
- 1829
Wrecked at Simon's Bay
[1]Phoenix was wrecked in South Africa on 19 July while carrying passengers and miscellaneous cargo from Ceylon.
- 1828
Second voyage to New South Wales
[1]Phoenix sailed from Spithead to Port Jackson with 190 male convicts, all of whom were landed.
- 1826
First voyage to New South Wales
[1]She carried 190 male convicts from Dublin to Port Jackson and landed 189.
- 1822
First convict voyage
[1]Phoenix transported 184 male convicts from Portsmouth to Hobart in Van Diemen's Land.
- 1821
Returned from India
[1]Phoenix completed her East India Company voyage and reached The Downs on 14 July.
- 1820
British East India Company voyage began
[1]Captain William Gordon sailed from Falmouth on a chartered voyage to Bengal and Madras.
- 1813
Shifted to general transport
[1]Her listed trade changed from the London–West Indies route to general transport based in London; she was also reported to be heavily armed.
- 1811
First recorded in Lloyd's Register
[1]The register described Phoenix as one year old, with Wilson as master and Blacket & Co. as owner, trading from London.
- 1810
Launched
[1]Phoenix was launched as a British merchant vessel.
Products and positioning
A nineteenth-century merchant and transport vessel used for general trade, an East India Company charter voyage, and convict transportation.
Recent events
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Phoenix and Lalamove expand loyalty rewards program to Cebu[2]
Phoenix and Lalamove expanded their loyalty rewards program to Cebu, where the PTC-Lalamove card became available to Lalamove partner drivers and provides discounts at participating Phoenix stations.
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Reported
ASUS launches a single-fan Phoenix RTX 3060 graphics card[3]
ASUS launched a single-fan Phoenix-series RTX 3060 graphics card overseas, the first RTX 30-series graphics card in the Phoenix line.
Reported
Phoenix introduces in-scheme drawdown for master trust clients[4]
Phoenix announced that members of its defined contribution master trust will be allowed to access their pension savings via in-scheme drawdown.
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ASUS announces seven GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 graphics cards[5]
ASUS announced seven new GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 graphics cards across its ROG Strix, ASUS TUF Gaming, and Phoenix series.
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ASUS announces GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 graphics cards[6]
ASUS announced new GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 graphics cards in the ROG STRIX, TUF Gaming, and Phoenix series; the cards were expected to reach the market in the coming weeks.
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