Sarah (1792 ship)

History
United Kingdom
Name: Sarah
Owner: Smith, Forbes & Co. (1800-1805)
Launched: 1782[1]
Fate: Deliberately wrecked July 1805
General characteristics
Tons burthen: 850,[2] or 935,[3] or 935​4⁄94[4][5] (bm)
Propulsion: Sail
Armament: 20 × 12-pounder guns

Sarah was launched at Bombay in 1792, possibly for a Mr. Morley. She then disappears from on-line sources until 1800. Sarah was admitted to the Registry of Great Britain on 24 April 1800.[4] From 1801 her owners were Smith, Forbes & Co. In 1801 they asked for twenty 12-pounders from the frigate Bombay with which to arm Sarah.[6] He master was Captain C.C. M'Intosh.[2]

The East Indiaman Brunswick, Sarah, and two more country ships sailed from Colombo on 1 July 1805, bound for China. On 4 July the two country ships separated and Brunswick and Sarah proceeded in company. On 11 July they were off Point de Galle when they encountered Contre-Admiral Charles-Alexandre Durand Linois in his flagship Marengo, accompanied by the frigate Belle Poule, who were cruising to raid British commerce. Marengo quickly captured Brunswick and Belle Poule set out to capture Sarah, which was further to windward.

M'Intosh ran Sarah, under full sail, into the breakers north of Point de Galle. Shortly thereafter she hoisted a distress signal, which led Belle Poule to report that she was totally lost.[7] However, her crew had scrambled ashore. In a letter to the Admiralty dated 22 July 1805, Admiral Edward Pellew wrote that "the Cargo will be saved, and the are hopes of getting the ship off."[8] A listing of prizes taken by Linois's squadron in the Indies describes Sarah as an Indiaman of 1,100 tons (bm), with a cargo of cotton and sandalwood. It gave the value of her loss as 180,000 piastres.[9]

It is possible that Sarah was recovered. In 1819 William Jardine, Thomas Weeding, and Framjee Cowasjee formed a partnership and acquired a country ship named Sarah which then plied between Bombay and China, particularly in the opium trade. The joint venture continued until 1841.[Note 1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

  1. ↑ The source identifies the partnership's Sarah with the Sarah of this article, but acknowledges that the vessels may be different.[10] There is no other information to support or refute the possibility.

Citations

  1. ↑ Gazetteer... (1894), Appendix 2, p.527.
  2. 1 2 Mathison & Mason (1803), p.218.
  3. ↑ Phipps (1840), p.168.
  4. 1 2 Select... (1814), p.86.
  5. ↑ Hackman (2001), p.242.
  6. ↑ Bulley (2000), p.61.
  7. ↑ Lloyd's List №4277.
  8. ↑ Parkinson (1954), pp.267-8.
  9. ↑ Parkinson (1954), p.428.
  10. ↑ Le Pichon (2006), p.22.

References

  • Bulley, Anne (2000) The Bombay Country Ships, 1790-1833. (Routledge) ISBN 978-0700712366
  • Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.
  • Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, (1894) Vol. 26, Part 2. (Government Central Press).
  • Le Pichon, Alain (2006) China Trade and Empire: Jardine, Matheson & Co. and the Origins of British Rule in Hong Kong, 1827-1843, Issue 38. (OUP/British Academy). ISBN 978-0197263372
  • Mathison, John. & Alexander W. Mason (1802) A new oriental register and East-India directory for 1802 : Containing complete lists of the company's servants, civil, military and marine ... together with lists of the Europeans mariners ... . (London: Black’s & Parry)*Mayo, John Horsley (1897) Medals and decorations of the British Army and Navy. (John Constable).
  • Parkinson, Cyril Northcote (1954) War in the Eastern Seas, 1793—1815. (George Allen & Unwin).
  • Phipps, John, (of the Master Attendant's Office, Calcutta), (1840) A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time .... (Scott).
  • Select Committee on Petitions Relating to East-India-Built Shipping, House of Commons, Parliament of Great Britain (1814) Minutes of the Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Petitions Relating to East-India-built Shipping. (His Majesty's Stationery Office).
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