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Name | HMS North Star |
Namesake | The North Star |
Ordered | 19 October 1805 |
Builder | Benjamin Tanner, Dartmouth (completed by John Cock after Tanner's bankruptcy) |
Laid down | May 1806 |
Launched | 21 April 1810 |
Fate | Sold 1817 |
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Name | Columbo |
Namesake | Colombo |
Owner | Joad & Co.[1] |
Acquired | 1817 by purchase[1] |
Fate | Condemned 1822 |
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Class and type | Revived Cormorant-class sloop |
Tons burthen | 43328⁄94 or 43820⁄94,[1] or 440[3] (bm) |
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Beam | 30 ft 1 in (9.2 m), or 30 ft 3 in (9.2 m)[1] |
Depth of hold | 9 ft 0 in (2.7 m) |
Complement | 121 (Royal Navy) |
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HMS North Star was a ship launched in 1810 and spent much of her naval career on the Jamaica Station. The Navy sold her in 1817 and she became the merchantman Columbo. Columbo sailed between Britain and India under a license from the British East India Company (EIC) until she was damaged in 1822 while returning from Ceylon. She was condemned at Point de Galle and sold there for breaking up.
In 1817 C. Joad & Co., purchased North Star and renamed her Columbo (or Colombo). The EIC had in 1813 lost its monopoly on the trade between Britain and India and numerous ship owners put their vessels into that trade, sailing under a license from the EIC.[12]
Columbo underwent a thorough repair in 1817 and first appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1818 with T. Webb, master, Joad & Co., owner, and trade London−Bombay.[3] She may have undergone some lengthening as her burthen and length after 1817 are slightly greater than those of her naval service.
On 29 September 1818 Columbo was at 17°46′N 28°13′W / 17.767°N 28.217°W, on her was back to Britain from Bombay and Saint Helena. She encountered Lord Hobart Packet, returning from the Brazils, and informed Lord Hobart Packet of the loss of Calbibia in July, together with Calbibia's captain and 12 crew.[13]
Lloyd's Register for 1819 showed Columbo's master changing from T. Webb to Richardson, and her trade from London−Bombay to London transport.[14] By the 1823 volume of Lloyd's Register (published in 1822), her trade was Liverpool–Bombay.
On 6 April 1822 Colombo was at Pointe de Galle, Ceylon. She had been badly damaged after striking a rock.[15] She was surveyed there, condemned as a constructive total loss, and sold for breaking up.[1] Part of her cargo, which was damaged, was also to be sold. Columbo, Richardson, master, had been sailing from Columbo to Mauritius and London.[16]