Thomas Henchman (1802 ship)

United Kingdom
Name: Thomas Henchman
Owner:
  • 1803:Archer & Smith[1]
  • 1809:Forbes & Co.[2]
Builder: M. Smith, Howrah, Calcutta[3]
Launched: 1802[3]
Fate: Wrecked 1811
General characteristics
Tons burthen: 500,[3] or 517,[4] or 520,[1] or 600[2](bm)

Thomas Henchman was launched in 1802 at Calcutta as a "country ship", that is, a merchant vessel trading in the East Indies, but not between India and England. She was wrecked in 1811 while preparing to participate in a British invasion of Java.

In 1809 William Hodges was captain of Thomas Henchman.[2]

Thomas Henchman was to participate as one of the transports in the British reduction of Java,[4] under the auspices of Lord Minto.

Thomas Henchman was burned,[3] or wrecked on a reef in the Strait of Malacca.[5]

Citations and references

Citations

  1. 1 2 East-India register and directory (1803), p.99.
  2. 1 2 3 Reports... (1809), p.242..
  3. 1 2 3 4 Phipps (1840), p.100.
  4. 1 2 Select... (1814), p.655.
  5. ↑ "FROM AN INDIA GAZETTE". Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. 12 December 1812.

References

  • 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).
  • Reports and Papers on the Impolicy of Employing Indian Built Ships in the Trade of the East-India Company, and of Admitting Them to British Registry: With Observation on Its Injurious Consequences to the Landed and Shipping Interests, and to the Numerous Branches of Trade Dependent on the Building and Equipment of British-built Ships (1809), (Blacks and Parry).
  • 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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