Hastings was a brig of 170 tons (bm) that the Bombay Dockyard launched in 1785,[2] or 1787,[1] for the Bengal Pilot Service.[2] In 1818, the EIC sold her to local buyers.[2] Alternatively, in May 1818 she was converted to a buoy vessel; in 1819 she appeared as a buoy vessel on a list of pilot vessels at Calcutta with J.F. Twisden, master.[3]. She sold on 11 October 1820. A fire destroyed her on the night of 17 April 1823,[4] while she was at Pulau Pasang, off Padang.[2]
↑ East-India register and directory (1819), p.120.
↑ The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australia (Parbury, Allen, & Co.; January 1824), p.97.
References
Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN0-905617-96-7.
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.
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