Recovery

Recovery was launched at Howrah, Calcutta, in 1821. At some point she was renamed Valetta (or Valletta). She was wrecked in July 1825 while sailing from Sydney to Manila. Career In 1823 Valetta was one of five or six British opium ships at Macao or outside the Pearl River, the Chinese government having forbidden them to enter with their cargoes of opium. On 28 March 1824 she was again at the anchorage at Lintin, with opium. The East-India register and directory for 1824 showed her registered at Calcutta and gave her master's name as J.W.Phillips. Loss: Lloyd's List reported on 14 April 1826, based on a letter from Sydney dated 21 September, that the country ship Valetta, Phillips, master, had wrecked on 10 July 1825 on the coast of New South Wales, but that her crew and most of the materials had been saved.