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{{short description|British Indiaman 1796–1798}}
{{other ships|Henry Addington (ship)}}
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|Ship name=''Henry Addington''
|Ship namesake=[[Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth]]
|Ship launched=10 March 1796{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=125}} 
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'''''Henry Addington''''' was an [[East Indiaman]] in the service of the British [[East India Company]] (EIC). She made one voyage for the EIC and was only five days into her second when she wrecked in 1798 at the [[Isle of Wight]].

==Only voyage (1796–1798) ==
Captain Richard Atherton Farington received a [[letter of marque]] on 4 May 1796.<ref name=LoM>{{cite web|url=http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf|date=4 August 2010|title=Marque1793-1815|author=Gules, transcribed by Michael Dun|access-date=28 August 2017|archive-date=20 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020052005/http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> He sailed from Portsmouth on 27 June, bound for China. ''Henry Addington'' reached the [[Cape of Good Hope]] on 29 September and arrived at [[Whampoa Anchorage]] on 2 February 1797. On the homeward-bound leg, she was at [[Bally, Howrah|Bally Town]], which is slightly up river from [[Kolkatta|Calcutta]], on 14 September. She was at the Cape on 2 December, and arrived on 17 May 1798 at [[The Downs (ship anchorage)|the Downs]].<ref name=BL/>

==Loss==
Captain Thomas Wakefield received a letter of marque on 9 November 1798. On 4 December he sailed from the Downs, bound for [[Mumbai|Bombay]] and China. Only five days later, on 9 December, ''Henry Addington'' struck the Bembridge Ledge on the [[Isle of Wight]], during a heavy fog. When the tide went out the next day she bilged. Five crew member drowned while trying to reach shore on a raft. Also, a block falling from the mizzen mast hit a boy on the head, killing him. By 16 December all that was left standing was the forepart of the vessel's upper works.{{sfnp|Grocott|1997|p=64}} Some casks were saved, but the EIC put the value of the cargo it lost at £29,222.<ref>''Reports from the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to {{not a typo|enquire}} into the present state of the affairs of the East India Company, together with the minutes of evidence, an appendix of documents, and a general index'', (1830), Vol. 2, p.976.</ref>

==Citations==
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==References==
* {{cite book |last=Grocott| first=Terence| title=Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras|publisher=Chatham|location=London|year=1997|isbn=1861760302}}
* {{cite book |last=Hackman |first=Rowan |year=2001 |title=Ships of the East India Company |location=Gravesend, Kent |publisher=World Ship Society |isbn=0-905617-96-7 }}

{{1798 shipwrecks}}

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[[Category:Shipwrecks in the English Channel]]