Exeter was a three-decker East Indiaman built by Perry and launched in 1792. She made eight voyages to the East Indies for the East India Company (EIC)...
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Several ships have borne the name Exeter after the city of Exeter in Devon: Exeter (1792 EIC ship) was an East Indiaman launched in 1792 that made eight...
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Transport vessels for the Invasion of the Cape Colony (category Age of Sail merchant ships of England)
returned to port, Exeter accompanying them. The vessels were: Bombay Castle (1792 EIC ship) Brunswick (1792 EIC ship) Deptford (1781 EIC ship) Earl Cornwallis (1783...
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Brunswick was launched in 1792, as an East Indiaman for the British East India Company (EIC). She made five complete voyages for the EIC before the French captured...
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Bombay Castle was launched in 1792 as an East Indiaman. She made six voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) before she was sold in 1807 for breaking...
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regular ship of the British East India Company (EIC). She made six voyages for the EIC between 1780 and 1797. She was sold in 1797 for breaking up. EIC voyage...
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made six apparently uneventful voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) before she was sold in 1807 for breaking up. Captain James Elkington sailed...
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East Indiaman (category Ship types)
East Indiamen chartered by the British East India Company (EIC) were known as clippers. The EIC held a monopoly granted to it by Elizabeth I in 1600 for...
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involved appears to have been HMS Sybille.) The EIC held eight regular ships and three "dismantled ships" to support the expedition: Pitt, Lascalles, and...
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River Thames. She made seven voyages for the British East India Company (EIC). She then made one voyage transporting convicts from England to New South...
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Selby, Yorkshire. She made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC) in 1794–95. She then became a West Indiaman until 1801 when a new owner...
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HMS Cornwallis (1805) (redirect from Marquis Cornwallis (1800 ship))
built the Marquis Cornwallis of teak for the Honourable East India Company (EIC) between 1800 and 1801. In March 1805 Admiral Sir Edward Pellew purchased...
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East Indiaman. She made eight voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) between 1791 and 1811. She was sold and served for a while as a West Indiaman...
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and son. Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1844157006....
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HMS Brilliant (1757) (category 1757 ships)
1776 and she became an East Indiaman for the British East India Company (EIC). Brilliant was wrecked in August 1782 on the Comoro Islands while transporting...
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to have taken lands in the area. ^l Captain Robert Melville Grindlay, E.I.C.S., M.R.A.S., etc. (1786–1877), served in the East India Company's Army and...
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Heritage site has an account of the wreck and the finding of its remains. E.I.C.= East India Company Falmouth Packet and Cornish Herald = a newspaper The...
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