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CORNELIA (32) Built in 1808, South Shields.
Broken up in 1814.
  • 1810 Capt. Henry Folkes EDGELL, Cape of Good Hope. She assisted at the capture of Mauritius and Java.
  • 1811 Capt. William Fitzwilliam OWEN, East Indies. He was promoted out of BARRACOUTA and had been co-operating with the army until the fall of Batavia.
    While CORNELIA was escorting some transports from Batavia to Bombay on 20 November 1811 they suddenly saw bottom about 180 miles west of the Maldives and took soundings of 19 and 20 fathoms over a bank, now named after the captain.
  • CORNELIA returned home with a convoy from China and was paid off in 1813.
  • 1814 Woolwich.

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