The General Carleton, like its namesake, saw action in the English fight against America during the revolution, but it survived the war and the long trip back and forth across the Atlantic. Instead it was its familiar waters of the Baltic that was to prove to be its undoing. Though it sank off of the coast of Poland in 1785, its cargo of tar has preserved many things beyond anything imagined before. It has become an archeological treasure.
Built: 1777
Tonnage: 500 tons
Sank: 1785
Place Sank: Debki Poland
Sources:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278390006_Babits_L_Ossowski_W_1999_1785_Common_Sailor's_Clothing_and_a_Ship's_Camboose_from_the_General_Carleton_of_Whitby_In_A_Askins_Neidinger_M_A_Russell_eds_Underwater_Archaeology_155-122_Society_for_Histor
https://theknittinggenie.com/2015/01/09/the-story-of-the-wreck-of-the-general-carleton/
https://www.academia.edu/2323059/The_Shipwreck_General_Carleton_1785_Wrak_statku_General_Carleton_1785_Badania_Archeologiczne_Centralnego_Muzeum_Morskiego_t_I_Gda%C5%84sk_editor_2008
https://www.abc.se/~pa/mar/wrak32.htm
