On 18 January 1797 Indian Chief, Shaw, master, was at Falmouth when she caught fire. She had a cargo of 1200 casks of pilchards that she was to take to the Straits of Gibraltar. She and her cargo were destroyed, but due to the assistance of the officers and men of HMS Indefatigable, all aboard were saved.[2]Indian Chief had come from Cornwall.[3]
^"The American ship Indian Chief, Capt. SHAW, with about 1400 casks of pilchards, for the Streights, caught fire." Times [London, England] 25 January 1797: 3. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 11 May 2020.
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