Perseverance was launched in 1801 as an East Indiaman. She made seven voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), before she was sold in 1819 for...
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Company (EIC), and was lost in July 1803. Perseverance (1801 EIC ship) was launched in 1801 as an East Indiaman. She made seven voyages for the EIC before...
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Perseverance (or Perserverance) was launched on the Thames in 1801. She then spent her entire career of 16 voyages as a whaler. Early in her career a French...
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St Helena on 5 August, and arrived at Long Reach on 22 October. EIC voyage #2 (1800–1801): Captain Stevens sailed from Portsmouth on 17 March 1800, bound...
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voyage under charter to the British East India Company (EIC), and was lost in July 1803. Perseverance was built either in Stettin, then part of Prussia, or...
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East Indiaman. She made nine voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) before she was broken up in 1813. In 1797, on her third trip, she was one...
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Alnwick Castle was launched in 1801 as an East Indiaman. She made seven voyages for the British East India Company before her owners sold her in 1816 for...
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East Indiaman. She made eight voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) before she was broken up in 1819. On her second voyage, in 1800, she was...
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Liddle & Co. She performed one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC). She was primarily a whaler, but also visited Australia. She is last listed...
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sailing to Canada. She was wrecked there in 1821. On 28 August 1801 John Woolmore and the EIC agreed a contract for Huddart, which was at best still building...
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for the British East India Company (EIC). She was lost without a trace in 1809 during her eighth voyage. The EIC initially engaged True Briton for six...
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was an East Indiaman of the British East India Company (EIC). She made eight voyages for the EIC before she was sold to the British government in 1810 for...
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tendered her to the EIC to bring back rice from Bengal. She was one of 28 vessels that sailed between December 1800 and February 1801. Holman sailed Eliza...
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Dutch East India Company (redirect from Dutch East Indian ships)
keenly felt in the tea trade, where competitors like the EIC and the Ostend Company shipped directly from China to Europe. The "venality" of the VOC's...
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Arniston (East Indiaman) (redirect from Arniston (ship))
East Indiaman that made eight voyages for the British East India Company (EIC). She was wrecked on 30 May 1815 during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape...
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East India Company (EIC) charter 28 vessels, comprising 14,785 tons (bm), to sail from England between December 1800 and February 1801 to bring back rice...
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and Antigua. She then made two voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), and one voyage to Hobart, Van Dieman's Land, transporting convicts. On...
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Company (EIC). She was trading in India in 1803 when a fire destroyed her, with great loss of life. A Caledonia appears on a list of country ships that participated...
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at Lancaster in 1793 as a West Indiaman. In 1801 she made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC) to bring back rice at the behest of the British...
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convicts to Port Jackson, the first for the British East India Company (EIC). A French privateer captured her in 1805, but she had returned to British...
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Transport vessels for the British Government's importation of rice from Bengal (1800–1802) (category Age of Sail merchant ships of England)
back rice. The EIC had chartered Indian Chief as an extra ship for a voyage to Bengal. She arrived back at Gravesend on 30 September 1801 with 4150 bags...
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1814 she became the first ship to trade with India under a license from the British East India Company (EIC) after the EIC lost its monopoly on British...
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started bringing reinforcements, and, due to the fall of Tipu Sultan, the EIC was able to crush the revolt. Thalassery hosted one of the British Navy's...
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Hindostan (1796 Indiaman) (category Ships of the British East India Company)
129 of the 143 people on board were saved. The Court of Directors of the EIC presented the 16 crew members of Lord Nelson with 500 guineas for their "gallant...
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kingdom as "Boutan" and the Panchen Lama's as "Tibet". Subsequently, the EIC's surveyor general James Rennell first anglicized the French name as Bootan...
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The use of convict ships to New South Wales began on 18 August 1786, when the decision was made to send a colonisation party of convicts, military, and...
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