Ganges (1792 ship)

History
United Kingdom
Name: Ganges
Namesake: Ganges
Owner: Thomas Patrickson
Launched: 1792,[1] India
Fate: No longer listed in Lloyd's Register for 1803
General characteristics
Tons burthen: 617,[2] or 700[1] (bm)
Complement: 80
Armament: 12 x 6 & 4-pounder guns,[2] or 12 × 6-pounder guns[3]

Ganges was a 700-ton (bm) merchantman launched in India in 1792. She made two trips under contract to the East India Company (EIC), and one in 1797 transporting convicts from England to New South Wales.

EIC voyage #1 (1796)

Ganges, under the command of Thomas Patrickson, left Bengal on 1 February 1796, reaching St Helena on 7 April, and arriving at Long Reach on 10 June.[4]

On 17 September 1796 Thomas Patrickson received a letter of marque for Ganges.[2]

Convict transport (1797)

Patrickson sailed Ganges from Portsmouth, England, in early 1797, and she arrived at Port Jackson on 2 June 1797.[5] She transported 203 male convicts, 13 of whom died on the voyage.[6] This was despite Sir James Fitzpatrick, the Home Department's surgeon-general having ordered the installation of ventilators and water purifiers, and the stocking of fumigants and medicines. Patrickson had asked for 300 convicts, but the request was refused.[7] The guards were a detachment from the New South Wales Corps.

Ganges left Port Jackson in December 1797 bound for China.[8]

Lloyd's Register for 1799 shows Ganges, Patrickson, master, Captain and company as owners, and with trade London-Botany Bay. This entry continued unchanged through 1802, even though there were changes in reality.

EIC voyage #2 (1800–02)

On 30 December 1800 Captain Forster Brown sailed Ganges from the Downs bound for Bengal. She arrived at Calcutta on 25 May 1801. She left Bengal on 13 September and reached St Helena on 1 January 1802. She arrived at The Downs on 1 March.[4]

Citations and references

Citations

  1. 1 2 Hackman (2001), p.232.
  2. 1 2 3 Letter of Marque, p.44 - accessed 25 July 2017.
  3. ↑ Lloyd's Register (1799), Seq. №12.
  4. 1 2 British Library: Ganges (2).
  5. ↑ Bateson (1974), p.139.
  6. ↑ Bateson (1974)m, p.153.
  7. ↑ Bateson (1974), p.152.
  8. ↑ "Arrival of Vessels at Port Jackson, and their Departure". Australian Town and Country Journal, Saturday 3 January 1891, p.16. Retrieved 4 February 2012.

References

  • Bateson, Charles (1974) The Convict Ships, 1787–1868. (Sydney). ISBN 0-85174-195-9
  • Hackman, Rowan (2001) Ships of the East India Company. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society). ISBN 0-905617-96-7


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