Actaeon

Actaeon was launched at Topsham, Devon in 1815. She traded widely and from 1823 she made some voyages to Bombay under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She then traded with what is now Peru, and was probably condemned in what is now Chile in 1828. Career Acteon first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1816. In 1813 the EIC had lost its monopoly on the trade between India and Britain. British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a license from the EIC. On 6 December 1823 J.Briggs sailed Actaeon sailed for Bombay under a license from the EIC. She arrived at Bombay on 28 May 1824. She sailed from there on 24 June and arrived back at Deal on 17 November.