King George (1783 ship)

History
Great Britain
BuilderThames
Launched1783
FateCondemned 1824
General characteristics
Tons burthen300, or 330, or 334, or 346 (bm)
Armament2 × 6-pounder guns (1810)

King George was built on the Thames in 1783 as a West Indiaman. From 1817 she made four voyages as a whaler in the British southern whale fishery. She was condemned at Guayaquil in 1824 on her fifth.

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