Albion (1805 ship)
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Albion (1805 ship)
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Albion was a country ship launched at Calcutta in 1805. A fire in December 1807 destroyed Albion at Canton. She was carrying a valuable cargo of silks and dollars. The dollars were salvaged. The reason Albion was carrying them was that the British merchants in Canton wanted to ship them back to Calcutta on a warship, but the Chinese authorities would not permit naval vessels to come up the Pearl River past the Bogue. They therefore engaged Albion to use her boats to get the silver from Canton to
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2023-07-27T15:59:52Z
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