Dorothy (1815 ship)

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Dorothy was a British merchant ship built in Liverpool in 1815 by C. Horsfall. She was about 416 tons (bm) and sailed under sail.

She made several voyages between England and India with cargo and also carried convicts to New South Wales once.

In 1820, under John Hargreaves and surgeon Robert Espie, Dorothy sailed from Cork on 5 May, stopped at Rio de Janeiro, left Rio on 7 July, and arrived at Sydney on 25 August. She carried 190 male convicts and had no deaths on the voyage. The guard came from detachments of the 48th Regiment of Foot, under Lieutenant Holdsworth of the 82nd Regiment of Foot. Passengers included Mrs Espie with three children and Mrs Holdsworth. Dorothy left Port Jackson on 8 November 1820 for Batavia and Calcutta.

In 1833, while on a voyage from Liverpool to Bombay under Captain James Garnock, she sprang a leak in late June. The crew of 25 abandoned ship on 5 July, and Dorothy foundered in the South Atlantic. The crew escaped in two boats and reached Trinidade and Martim Vaz off Brazil on 20 July but could not land. They then headed for Bahia and were rescued on 24 July by an American ship commanded by Captain Alex. S. Palmer, with most of them landing at Pernambuco, Brazil. They had sailed 1,311 nautical miles in open boats with little food.