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Accomplished Quaker (1801 ship)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ110486806 ↗
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Accomplished Quaker was a French vessel that the British captured circa 1801. She first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in the volume for 1801.

Lloyd's List reported on 20 November 1804 that as she was sailing from Archangel to London she wrecked near Drontheim. Her crew was saved.

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This entry incorporates text from “Accomplished Quaker (1801 ship)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.