Career
EIC voyage #1 (1803–1805): He sailed from Portsmouth on 27 April 1803, bound for Madras and Bengal. Lord Castlereagh was at Rio de Janeiro on 29 June. [2] That day Robertson also acquired a letter of marque. [3] Lord Castlereagh reached Madras on 11 September and Masulipatam on 30 September, and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 14 October. She was at Saugor on 17 February 1804, and visited Benkulen on 17 May before returning to Bengal, arriving at Kedgeree on 25 September. She was at Saugor on 13 October, and Calcutta on 15 December. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 30 January 1805, reached Madras on 12 February, and arrived at her moorings on 9 November. [2]
EIC voyage #2 (1806–1807): Captain Christopher Kymer acquired a letter of marque on 8 February 1806. He sailed from Portsmouth on 4 March, bound for Madras and Bengal. Lord Castlereagh reached Madras on 27 June and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 10 July. She then was at Saugor on 5 September, visited Penang on 17 October, and was back at Kedgeree on 13 December. Homeward bound, she was at Madras on 15 February 1807, Colombo on 20 March, and St Helena on 16 June. She arrived at The Downs on 6 September. [2] On 27 February Kymer had written to complain that his surgeon had died and that when the British Royal Navy had impressed his surgeon's mate he no longer had any medical personnel on board.
EIC voyage #3 (1808–1810): Captain Kymer sailed from Portsmouth on 15 April 1808, bound for St Helena and Bengal. Lord Castlereagh reached St Helena on 4 July, the Cape of Good Hope on 15 September, and Trincomalee on 11 December. She was at Diamond Harbour on 2 February 1809 and Saugor on 8 March. [2]
In March, Kymer joined Captain Hemming of Earl Spencer and Captain Hawes of Monarch in letters of protest against the Royal Navy's having impressed seamen from Indiamen. Lord Castlereagh had lost a total of 31 men. [5]
Lord Castlereagh visited Benkulen on 20 May and Penang on 20 July, before returning to Diamond Harbour on 25 September. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 29 October, reached St Helena on 3 May 1810, and arrived at her moorings on 9 July. [2]
EIC voyage #4 (1811–1813): Captain Kymer sailed from Torbay on 30 May 1811, bound for Bengal and China. Lord Castlereagh reached Madeira on 21 June and arrived at Kedgeree on 18 November. She was at Saugor on 5 December, Penang on 4 May, and Malacca on 9 June. She arrived at Whampoa anchorage on 29 June. Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 27 August, returned to Malacca on 18 October, and reached Saugor on 5 December. She stopped at Acheh on 26 April 1813, reached St Helena on 10 August, and arrived at The Downs on 7 November. [2]
EIC voyage #5 (1815–1816): Captain Kymer sailed from The Downs on 22 May 1815, bound for Bengal. Lord Castlereagh arrived at Diamond Harbour on 24 September. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 20 January 1816, reached St Helena on 16 June, and arrived at The Downs on 13 August. [2]
EIC voyage #6 (1817–1818): Captain William Younghusband sailed from The Downs on 23 April 1817, bound for Bengal. Lord Castlereagh was at Simon's Bay on 5 July, and reached Diamond Harbour on 1 September. She arrived at the New Anchorage on 18 December. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 21 February 1818, and the Cape on 6 May. She reached St Helena on 26 May, and arrived at the Downs on 31 July. [2]
EIC voyage #7 (1819–1820): Captain Younghusband sailed from The Downs on 22 April 1819. Lord Castlereagh arrived at Whampoa on 5 September. Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 19 November, reached St Helena on 13 February 1820, and arrived at The Downs on 9 April. [2]
On one of these two voyages Captain Younghusband suffered some disciplinary problems. On the outward bound leg of the voyage he disciplined some seamen for having abused the steward over the food served at a meal rather than having complained to the captain. Next day the bosun reported that a number of ropes had been cut in such a way that it could have endangered the rigging and the ship. On the homeward leg, prior to reaching St Helena, Younghusband had 11 seamen punished for attempting to prevent the flogging of one of their number. Younghusband left the ringleader at St Helena to return aboard HMS Conqueror. When the man arrived back in England he sued Younghusband. Younghusband won the case, but legal fees cost him £165.
Earl Spencer was an East Indiaman, launched in 1795 for the British East India Company (EIC). She made seven voyages for the EIC until in 1811-12 the government took her up to transport convicts to Australia in 1813. On her return voyage from Australia she sailed via China, where she carried a cargo back to England for the EIC.
Tottenham was launched in 1802 and made six voyages for the British East India Company (EIC). Her owners then sold her and she became a transport. She made one voyage transporting convicts to Botany Bay. She was sold in 1820 for breaking up.
Monarch was built at Quebec in 1800. She sailed to England where under new ownership she proceeded to make five voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) as an "extra ship", that is, under charter. In 1813 she became a transport, and then in 1818 or so a regular merchantman. She was broken up in 1820.
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.
Bengal was launched in 1799 as an East Indiaman for the British East India Company (EIC). She made four complete voyages but foundered in 1809 with no trace while homeward bound from the fifth.
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.
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.
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.
Lord Hawkesbury was launched in 1787 as an East Indiaman for the British East India Company (EIC). She made eight voyages for the EIC before she was sold in 1808 for breaking up.
Lord Macartney was launched in 1782 as an East Indiaman. She made six voyages for the British East India Company (EIC0 before she was sold in 1798. She then traded across the Atlantic to North America and was last listed in 1811.
Rose was launched in 1786 as an East Indiaman. She made six voyages between 1787 and 1800 for the British East India Company (EIC). She also participated as a transport for a military expedition to the West Indies. She then made one more voyage for the EIC, bringing rice back to England from Bengal. Next she sailed as a general trader, but also made one voyage seal hunting. She was last listed in 1820.
Lady Castlereagh was launched in 1803. She made six apparently uneventful voyages to India and one to China for the British East India Company (EIC). She left the EIC's service and made one voyage transporting convicts to Australia. She was returning from having delivered her convicts to Port Jackson and Van Diemen's Land when she was damaged in October 1818 a gale at Madras. She was surveyed there, condemned, and sold for breaking up.
Lady Burges was launched in 1799 as an East Indiaman. She made three voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) between 1800 and 1805. She was wrecked in 1806 early in her fourth voyage.
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.
William Pitt was launched on the River Thames in 1785 as an East Indiaman. She made six voyages for the British East India Company (EIC). During her fourth she served as an ad hoc warship in a naval campaign during which she saw action. Thereafter she served as a transport, including one voyage in 1801-1802 transporting rice from Bengal to Britain. She was sold for breaking up in 1809.
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.
Coldstream was launched in 1810. She may have sailed to the West Indies before becoming an extra ship for the British East India Company (EIC) and making nine voyages as an East Indiaman. After the end of the EIC's maritime activities Coldstream made one more voyage to India and China. She disappeared in 1835 while returning to Britain from China.
Marquis Wellesley was launched at Rotherhithe in 1799. She made five complete voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) before she was lost in 1813 on her sixth.
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