The Caroline was a schooner

Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

 constructed in New Bedford

New Bedford

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, USA. It disappeared without trace in 1802.

Built and registered in New Bedford, it was owned by Swain and Co a New Bedford firm. It was 103 tons weight. It reached Sydney

Sydney

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 on 22 December 1801 under the command of St Tuckerman. It left Sydney on 29 March 1802 with Lieutenant Neil McKellar on board who carried the dispatches from Governor Phillip Gidley King to England

England

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. The ship was to return to New Bedford

New Bedford

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. It was never heard of again and was lost with McKellar, Tuckerman and a crew of nine men.