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Gilbert, Thomas (Commander of the Charlotte)

LC control no.n 85106373
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Personal name headingGilbert, Thomas (Commander of the Charlotte)
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Variant(s)Gilbert, Thomas, active 18th century
Beginning date17
Associated countryGreat Britain Australia Gilbert Islands
Field of activityVoyages and travels
AffiliationEast India Company
Profession or occupationShip captains
Found inVoyage from New South Wales to Canton ..., 1789: t.p. (Thomas Gilbert, Esq., Commander of the Charlotte)
Wikipedia, viewed 18 Dec. 2014 (Thomas Gilbert was an 18th-century British mariner.He was the captain of an East India Company vessel, the Charlotte, returning from carrying convicts to Botany Bay in 1788, when he sailed through the Gilbert Islands and described Aranuka, Kuria, Abaiang and Tarawa)
Associated languageeng