Huddart was launched in 1803 as an East Indiaman. She made eight voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), between 1803 and 1818. In 1810-1811 she participated as a transport in two British military campaigns. In 1818 new owners deployed her in 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, for eight voyages at £13 10s per ton as a peacetime freight. (This was without kentledge.)[4]
EIC voyage #1 (1803-1804): Captain Thomas Gabriel Bayliff sailed from The Downs on 21 March 1803, bound for St Helena and Bombay. Huddart reached St Helena on 6 June.[1] Bayliff acquired a letter of marque on 25 July,[3] i.e., in absentia. On 29 August Huddart arrived at Bombay. She visited Mangalore on 24 October, before returning to Bombay on 16 November. Homeward bound, she reached St Helena on 3 March 1804 and arrived in The Downs on 10 May.[1]
EIC voyage #2 (1804-1805): Captain William John Eastfield acquired a letter of marque on 28 July 1804.[3] He sailed from Portsmouth on 4 September 1804, bound for Madras and Bengal. Huddart reached Madeira on 27 September and arrived at Madras on 17 February 1805. She then arrived at Diamond Harbour on 17 March. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor 3 June, reached St Helena on 22 October, and arrived at The Downs on 23 December.[1]
EIC voyage #3 (1806-1807): Captain Thomas Gabriel Bayliff acquired a letter of marque on 14 April 1806.[3] He sailed from Portsmouth on 10 June 1806, bound for Madeira and Bombay. Huddart was at Madeira on 27 June, but did not reach the Cape until 3 October; she arrived at Bombay on 11 January 1807. Homeward bound, she was at 14 Mar Point de Galle or 14 March, reached St Helena on 14 May, and arrived at The Downs on 6 September.[1]
EIC voyage #4 (1808-1809): Captain William Nesbitt acquired a letter of marque on 14 March 1808.[3] He sailed from Portsmouth on 7 May 1808, bound for Bombay. Huddart arrived at Bombay on 19 September. Homeward bound, she was at Point de Galle on 8 February 1809.
On 15 February she sailed from Point de Galle as part of a fleet of 15 East Indiamen under escort by HMSCulloden and HMSTerpsichore.[5]
On 14 March, off Mauritius, a gale developed. Four of the ships, Bengal, Calcutta, Jane, Duchess of Gordon, and Lady Jane Dundas, parted company with the main convoy. They were never heard of again. Huddart was the last vessel to see Bengal and Calcutta; Hugh Inglis was the last vessel to see Jane, Duchess of Gordon and Lady Jane Dundas.[6] The hull of one of the four missing vessels was sighted overturned off Mauritius the following October, but sank before it could be identified.[7]
Huddart reached St Helena on 29 April, and arrived at The Downs on 13 July September.[1]
EIC voyage #5 (1810-1812): Captain Nesbit sailed from Portsmouth on 14 March 1810, in a convoy bound for Madras and Bengal. Huddart reached Madras on 8 July, and arrived at Kedgeree on 27 July.[1] The British government then hired her as a transport for the British Île de France (Mauritius).
Nesbit landed with the invasion force, bringing many of his crew with him, as did Captain Joseph Yates of City of London. The seamen contributed in the "laborious duty of hauling the cannon".[8]
Huddart sailed from Mauritius on 10 December,[9] and arrived at Calcutta on 16 February 1811.[1] There the British government again hired her, this time for the invasion of Java.[9]
Huddart arrived at Malacca on 24 April.[1] She sailed for Java on 11 June as part of the second division of transports. She was at Batavia on 4 August, and returned to Calcutta on 16 October.[1]
Homeward bound, she was at Kedgeree on 3 January 1812, reached St Helena on 12 May, and arrived at The Downs on 22 July.[1]
EIC voyage #6 (1813-1814): Captain Nesbitt sailed from Portsmouth on 14 April 1813, bound for Madras and Bengal. Huddart reached Madras on 9 August and arrived at Calcutta on 19 September. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 2 November and Point de Galle on 29 December. She reached the Cape on 1 March 1814 and St Helena on 18 March, and arrived at The Downs on 1 June.[1]
EIC voyage #7 (1815-1816): Captain Charles Weller sailed from The Downs on 2 April 1815, bound for Madras and Bengal. Huddart was at Madeira on 18 April and Madras on 6 August before arriving at Calcutta on 3 September. Homeward bound, albeit indirectly, she was at Saugor on 20 December and Madras again on 14 January 1816. She stopped at Benkulen on 18 February and Batavia on 4 March. She reached St Helena on 18 May and arrived at The Downs on 12 July.[1]
EIC voyage #8 (1817-1818): Captain Weller sailed from The Downs on 16 May 1817, bound for Bombay. Huddart was at Madeira on 1 June Madeira and arrived at Bombay on 30 September. Homeward bound, she was at Tellicherry on 17 December, reached St Helena on 17 March 1818, and arrived at the Downs on 9 June.[1]
Subsequent career and loss
New owners in 1818 employed Huddart in the trade between England and Canada. Lloyd's Register for 1819 shows Huddart's master as F. Oakes, her owner as J. Taylor, and her trade as London–Quebec.[10] The volume for 1821 shows her master as Appleton.
Lloyd's List reported on 16 October 1821 that a gale wind had driven Huddart, Appleton, master, on to the rocks near Wolf’s Cove. Huddart, which had been sailing for London, was apparently a total loss and would be sold, though her cargo would be taken out.[11] On 7 December Lloyd's List reported that Huddart and part of her cargo had been sold.[12]
Northumberland was launched in 1805. She made six voyages as an extra ship of the British East India Company (EIC), between 1805 and 1818. In 1810 and 1811 she served as a transport in the British invasions of Mauritius and Java. She was sold for breaking up in 1819.
Retreat was launched in 1801 and briefly sailed as a West Indiaman between London and Jamaica. She then made five voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) as an "extra ship", that is, under charter. She was broken up in 1814.
Lord Keith was launched in 1804 by and for Peter Everitt Mestaer. He chartered her to the East India Company (EIC) for six voyages, and she then went on to make another two voyages for the EIC. On her second voyage, and unusually for an East Indiaman, she participated in the proceeds for the recapture of a former British Royal Navy brig and possibly in a skirmish with a French ship. On her third voyage she participated in a notable action. She was broken up c.1820.
Hugh Inglis was launched in 1799 as an East Indiaman. She made seven voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), between 1800 and 1817. In 1810 and 1811 she participated as a transport in two British military campaigns. She was sold for breaking up in 1817.
City of London was launched in 1800 as an East Indiaman. She made six voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) between 1800 and 1814 when she was taken up as a troopship for one voyage. She made one more voyage to India under a license from the EIC and then was broken up circa 1817.
Sir Stephen Lushington was launched in 1796 as an East Indiaman. She made seven voyages for the British East India Company (EIC). During this period she took part as a transport in two military campaigns, the cancelled attack on Manila in 1797, and the capture of Mauritius in 1810. In 1812 she became a West Indiaman, thought around 1816 she made another voyage to India. Thereafter her ownership and trade becomes ambiguous: she either traded with Spain until 1822, or with South America until 1825.
Lord Camden was launched in 1783 as an East Indiaman for the British East India Company. She made five voyages for the EIC before her owner sold her.
Dublin was launched in 1784 as an East Indiaman. She made six voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), to India and China. On her last voyage for the EIC she recaptured a country ship. Her owners sold Dublin in 1800 and she became a West Indiaman, but apparently was lost on her first voyage.
Manship was launched in 1785 as an East Indiaman. She made six voyages as a "regular ship" for the British East India Company (EIC). In June 1795 Manship shared with several other Indiamen and the Royal Navy in the capture of eight Dutch East Indiamen off St Helena. Her owners sold her in 1801 and she then made one voyage for the EIC as an "extra ship" on a voyage charter. Her owners sold her to the British government in 1803 for use as a powder hulk.
Harriet was a two-decker East Indiaman launched in 1802. She made five complete voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), as an "extra ship" i.e., under charter, and accidentally burnt as she was preparing to return to England from her sixth voyage.
Lady Lushington was launched in 1808. Then in 1809 the British East India Company (EIC) chartered her. She made four voyages to India for the EIC and several others while under a license from the EIC. She was on a voyage to India under a license from the EIC when she was wrecked on 10 August 1821.
Sovereign was launched at Rotherhithe in 1800 as a West Indiaman. The British East India Company (EIC) then took her up as an "extra" ship on several contracts; in all she made seven voyages as an East Indiaman for the EIC. After she left the EIC's service in 1817 she continued to trade with India, but under a license from the EIC. She was broken up in 1822.
Walthamstow was launched in December 1799 in Rotherhithe. She made six voyages for the British East India Company (EIC). She was sold in 1814 for breaking up.
Surrey was launched in 1804 at Deptford as an East Indiaman. She made six voyages for the British East India Company (EIC). She was sold for breaking up in 1816.
Thomas Grenville was an East Indiaman launched at the Bombay Dockyard for the British East India Company (EIC), and one of only a handful of East Indiamen that it actually owned. She made 14 voyages for the EIC. It sold her in 1834 when it gave up its maritime activities. She was sold for a free trader and burnt in Bombay in June 1843 in a suspicious fire.
Thetis was launched on the river Thames in 1786 as an East Indiaman. She made six voyages for the British East India Company between 1787 and 1800, She was then sold and spent a handful of years as a West Indiaman. She was broken up in 1806.
Tigris was launched in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1802. She made six voyages between 1803 and 1815 as an "extra ship" for the British East India Company (EIC). After her stint as an East Indiaman, Tigris became a West Indiaman. She was wrecked in December 1823.
Devaynes was launched in 1802 and made six voyages as an East Indiaman for the British East India Company (EIC). She then made one more round-trip to India, sailing under a license from the EIC. She was condemned at Bengal in 1817 on a second licensed voyage to Bengal.
Carmarthen was launched in 1802 as an East Indiaman. She made eight round-trip voyages to India as an "extra" ship for the British East India Company (EIC). On her first voyage she participated in an experiment in bringing variolation to India and other British possessions to combat smallpox. After leaving the EIC's employment, she took one more voyage to India, sailing under a licence from the EIC. She was last listed in 1820.
Lord Duncan was launched on the River Thames in 1798 as an East Indiaman. She made seven voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) before she was sold in 1813 for breaking up.
References
Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN0-905617-96-7.
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