ji7.8 .JBCONpWy At SEA. 



t)EAR Sir, January 17, 18,05. . 



" IT Is with pleafure that. [Ihaveleifure to inform you of the 



performance of the patent Ihip Economy, during the voyage 



under my command. 



Captains ac- " On (he fifth and fixlh of September laft, latitude 37, 34 N. 



count of the ^.g experienced a very heavy gale of wind, with an heavy 



In a viojent gale crofs fea, occafioned by the wind fliifting to different points 



the /hip per- of" (1,^ compafs fuddenlv, and blowing with extreme violence : 



forms extremely , - , , , c , j , ^ . . , •■ 



well, and is a ourjng the wliole ot the gale, the Lconomy behaved as well 

 good fea boat: gs I ever experienced a (liip to do, and mucb better than 

 founder in this *-'ouId have been expected for fo fmall a ftiip ; in fine, (he is 

 Horm, one as good a fea boat as ever put keel in fc^lt water. During the 

 otteHrrgt'fliip' g'^^^' ^'^"^ ^^^'P'' '^ '^ Tuppofed, foundered; after the gale 

 rendered un- one was abandoned as not tenable, fliould another gale of 

 n^anagcable, and ^^.j^^j ^^^^ . ^j^g Prh\ce of Wales, a (liip of 300 tons, 



taken m tow, _ j r ^ » 



and feveral had every thing waflied from her deck : The Princefs of 

 others much Wales, a (liip of the fame fize, broke her rudder, and was 

 left in tow of the Hyxna (loop of war. Several other {hips 

 met with confiderable damage, which proved undeniably the 

 The Economy violence of the wind. Notwithftanding the lumbered flate 

 dderr"and^L °^ ^^^ Economy, we loft nothing ofF deck, and I don't think 

 very vveatherly: there was a fhip, large or fmall in the fleet, that made belter. 



h'as'a'^foul'blr' "'^^*^^'' '• ^'^ ^'<^ "°^ ^^'^ ^° ^^^ coming home as going out, 

 tom which im- but that is eafjiy accounted fpr, when we confider flie was 

 pedes her failing, j^qj coppered, and was out fifteen months on a wooden 



ihe works and „,..,, , , r , ■, 



iUerswell. fnealhmg, with barnacles as long as your nnger on her, and 

 the bottom refembling a rock ; and was betides laden as 

 deep as flie could flow. She works and fleers amaz"ngly well. 

 I would not with to change her if flie had been larger, 

 but being only 200 tons, flie is too fmall both for my interefl; 

 and the Weft India trade. 



She remains <. Xhe fliip has been perfedly tight all the voyage, although 



perfcaiy tight . , ^ .' "L ^ ,,.,•/-, 



after the fevere ^'^ had a vcry tempcltuous paUage, and likewile ran her on 

 pairage, though Qiore, fugar loaded, under the batteries at Trinadad, to. 

 Trinadad with a P''^^'e"t her falling into the hands of the French, as we fup- 

 lull cargo of pofed, where we lay for twenty-four hours, until we dif- 

 ^^'^'^' , covered that it was Nelfon's fleet. In my opinion fl^ie is one 



of the ftrongeft fliips in the river Thames of her fize. 

 is a very re- " Tlie new iron flings and other ironwork on the yarda 



mar able ftrong gj^j.ggj jj^^ ^^q^ fangyin.e expeflaiion, I have feeo the fljip 



cjovere.cl with fluflics of lightning when at Trinadad, and never 



experienced 



