Earl of Abergavenny (East Indiaman)
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The Earl of Abergavenny was a British merchant ship, which belonged to the special class of the East Indiaman. The ship was operated by the East India Company and transported not only cargo but also passengers. Likewise, it was with a letter of marquee: equipped and armed ( German Letter of Marque ).
The Earl of Abergavenny in 1796 in Northfleet, Kent, and built by Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny named.
Your first journey took her from Portsmouth via Bombay and Malacca to Whampoa and back to England between 18 March 1797 and 18 October 1798.
Your second trip took them from Portsmouth via Penang to Whampoa and back to England between June 13th 1799 and September 23 in 1800.
On both trips she was under the command of John Wordsworth Sr., the uncle of William Wordsworth.
Your third trip makes the Earl of Abergavenny, under the command of John Wordsworth junior, the brother of William Wordsworth, from May 19, 1801 again over Penang, Malacca to Whampoa and back to England, where she arrived on 5 September 1802.
On her fourth trip to the them at the May 6, 1803 left England again under the command of John Wordsworth, Jr., she was on February 14, 1804 present at the Battle of Pulo Aura, but not in the battle itself took part. She returned to England on August 8, 1804.
The Earl of Abergavenny left the port of Portsmouth on 1 February 1805, four other ships for their fifth trip to India and China. The necessary for the trip through the Channel pilot was late and the tide goes out a set. In stormy wind and water running off the ship was pushed towards it on 5 February 1805, the shoal of the Shambles at Portland Bill. Of the 402 people on board, 263 people died, including John Wordsworth junior.
The wreck lies in 60 feet of water three kilometers before the beach of Weymouth.
William Wordsworth wrote a short poem in memory of the last meeting of the two brothers on September 29, 1800, the farewell at Grisedale Tarn in honor of his brother. Canon Hardwick Rawsley, one of the founders of the National Trust, had this poem on a stone that marks the Abschiedsort, attach. The stone is known as Brothers Parting Stone.