Lord Eldon (1824 ship)

Lord Eldon was launched at Sunderland in 1824.

She appeared in LR in 1828 with M.Cooper, master, J. Noble, owner, and trade Liverpool–Rio de Janeiro.

[1] On 20 August 1828 Lord Eldon and the American ship Huzzar were approaching Buenos Aires under escort by an Argentinian privateer.

The three vessels encountered a Brazilian naval squadron that was blockading Buenos Aires during the Cisplatine War.

The Brazilians captured all three vessels and burnt the two merchantmen.