List of vessels of the Bombay Marine (1798)

The vessels below were listed in 1798 as serving the Bombay Marine, the naval arm of the British East India Company (EIC). ^[1] The list of names and armaments comes from the Bombay Almanack and Register for 1798. ^[2] Most of the vessels, especially the ones for which we have a burthen, were built for the EIC at the Bombay Dockyard.

Name	Type	Launch	Burthen	Guns	Remarks
Alert	Schooner	1795		10 × 2-pounder guns	Lost 1798 [3] (replaced in 1802 by the captured l'Eugenie, renamed Alert [1] )
Antelope	Brig	1793	199 [3]	12 × 4-pounder guns	Sold after 1830
Bombay	Ship	1793	639, [4] or 67183⁄94, [5] or 693 [6]	24 × 12-pounder + 8 × 6-pounder guns	Sold to the Admiralty in 1805; renamed HMS Ceylon in 1808; broken up 1861
Drake	Ship	1787		14 × 6-pounder guns
Fly	Brig	1793	176	14 × 6-pounder guns
Intrepid	Ship	1780 [7]		14 × 6-pounder guns
Panther	Snow	1778	181 [8]	12 × 4-pounder + 2 × 3-pounder guns
Princess Augusta	Snow	1768 [9]		12 × 3-pounder guns	Originally a grab
Princess Royal	Ketch	1768 [10]		12 × 3-pounder guns	Originally a grab
Queen	Ketch	1768 [10]		10 × 3-pounder guns + 4 swivel guns
Rodney	Ketch			10 × 4-pounder guns + 10 swivel guns
Strombolo (or Stromboli)	Bomb ketch	1793	68	12 × 3-pounder guns	Lost 1809
Swift	Ship			20 × 6-pounder guns	On the beach at Ambonya in 1801, partly broken up and without a crew. Replaced by a purchased vessel that continued the name. [11]
Viper	Snow	1755		10 × 3-pounder guns + 4 swivel guns	New boat February 1755; [12] launched by Bombay Dockyard for the Bombay Marine as Revenge, but renamed before completion, the name Revenge being wanted for a larger ship. [13]

Citations

1. Low (1877).
2. The Bombay Almanack, and Register, for ... 1798. The British Library, London: John Turner. 1798. p. 108. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
3. Hackman (2001), p. 324.
4. Phipps (1840), p. 164.
5. Winfield (2008), p. 213.
6. Hackman (2001), p. 326.
7. Wadia (1986), p. 333.
8. Hackman (2001), p. 337.
9. Wadia (1986), p. 332.
10. Wadia (1986), p. 331.
11. Lee (1912), p. 199.
12. Wadia (1986), p. 207.
13. Hackman (2001), p. 343.

References

• Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN   0-905617-96-7.
• Lee, Ida (1912). Commodore Sir John Hayes: His Voyage and Life (1767-1831) with Some Account of Admiral D'Entrecasteaux's Voyage of 1792-3. Longmans, Green.
• Low, Charles Rathbone (1877). History of the Indian Navy: (1613-1863). R. Bentley and son.
• Phipps, John (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.
• Wadia, R. A. (1986) [1957]. The Bombay Dockyard and the Wadia Master Builders. Bombay.
• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates (2nd ed.). Seaforth Publishing. ISBN   978-1-86176-246-7.