Career
Melville appeared in the East-India register and directory for 1803 with M. Gilmore, master. [1] She then disappeared from online records. She may have served as a country ship in the Indian coastal trades. Still, listings in 1809 of vessels belonging to Calcutta or Bombay did not include her.
At some point her name changed to Lady Campbell. On 26 November 1814 Lady Campbell left India for England. She anchored in Table Bay on 10 February 1815. [5] Lady Campbell, Bennett, master, arrived at Gravesend, Kent on 25 June. [6]
She made three voyages from England as an "extra ship" for the EIC.
EIC voyage #1 (1816-1817): Captain Thomas Marquis sailed from The Downs on 15 May 1816, bound for Bengal. Lady Campbell was at Madeira on 30 May, and reached Kedgeree on 20 September. She arrived at Calcutta on 10 October. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 26 January 1817, Vizagapatam on 28 February, and Madras on 6 March. She reached St Helena on 13 June, and arrived at The Downs on 12 August. [2]
lady Campbell entered Lloyd's Register in 1818 with T. Marquis, master and owner, and trade London–India. The entry recorded her place of launch as the Thames, and her launch year as 1816. [7] However, the 1820 volume of Lloyd's Register had corrected her place of launch to Calcutta, and had the notation that she was 16 years old. [8]
EIC voyage #2 (1820-1821): Captain Thomas Marquis sailed from The Downs on 25 April 1820, bound for China. Lady Campbell arrived at Whampoa anchorage on 29 August. Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 25 December, reached the Cape of Good Hope on 10 March 1821 and St Helena on 31 March, and arrived at The Downs on 26 May. [2]
On 13 March 1823, Lady Campbell, Beetham, master, put into Lorient, having lost her rudder. She was sailing from England to Bengal. [9] A letter dated Lorient 18 April reported that Lady Campbell, bound for the Cape and India, would sail on 28 April, or 1 May at the latest, having received a new rudder and having undergone the necessary repairs. [10]
EIC voyage #3 (1825): Captain Irvine sailed from The Downs on 10 January 1825, bound for Bengal. Lady Campbell arrived at Calcutta on 29 June. [2] A letter from Gibraltar dated 18 June 1825 reported that Lady Campbell, Bentham, master, was coming from Bengal, when she grounded near the Pearl Rock coming into the Hay. She was aground for about an hour but then was got off without apparent damage before any vessels could come to her assistance. [11]
Clyde was a merchant ship built at Greenock, Scotland in 1820. She made two voyages for the British East India Company (EIC). She then made three voyages transporting convicts from England and Ireland to Australia. She was last listed in 1845.
Ocean was launched in 1802 at Quebec. She made five voyages under charter to the British East India Company (EIC) between 1804 and 1814. Her owners then sold her and she continued to sail between Britain and India under a license issued by the EIC. In 1815–1816 she made one voyage transporting convicts to Australia. She was last listed in 1825.
Timandra was launched in 1814. She started trading with India and made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC) before she was lost off the Lofoten Islands in 1822.
Larkins made ten voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), all as an "extra ship", i.e. under contract. On two of these voyages she first transported convicts to Australia. She also made one convict voyage independently of the EIC. She traded extensively between England and India or China, and in this twice suffered serious but not fatal maritime mishaps. In 1853 she became a coal hulk at Albany, Western Australia, and remained there until she was broken up in 1876.
Potton was launched in 1814 and shortly thereafter made one of two voyages under charter to the British East India Company (EIC). Between voyages for the EIC and after she was a general trader until she foundered in 1829.
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.
Apollo was launched in 1812 at Hull. She made three voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) as a regular ship. She continued to trade with India under licence from the EIC until she was wrecked near Cape Town in 1823.
Moira, was launched at Calcutta in 1813. Between 1820 and 1834 she made four voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) under voyage charters, and transported troops to Burma in 1824. She was lost in 1844.
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.
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.
General Stuart was launched in 1801 as an East Indiaman. She made seven voyages as an "extra ship" for the British East India Company (EIC) between 1801 and 1814. She then sailed between England and India under a license from the EIC. In 1819 she transported convicts from England to New South Wales. She continued to trade with Australia and was last listed in 1825.
Barrosa was launched in 1811 at Cossipore. She sailed to England and then made six voyages for the British East India Company (EIC); during this period she also made one voyage carrying immigrants to South Africa. After the EIC gave up its maritime activities in 1833-1834, Barossa became a transport. She made three voyages transporting convicts to Australia. She was lost in 1847, without loss of life, while transporting contract labourers from Madras to Jamaica.
Lady Carrington was launched at Bristol in 1809. In an apparently short and uneventful career, she made five voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) before she was broken up in 1823.
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.
Harriet was launched at Calcutta, between 1793 and 1795. Between 1795 and 1801 she made three voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), and was chartered for use as a transport for a naval campaign that was cancelled. She became a transport and then in 1817 made another voyage to India, this time under a license from the EIC. She then became a whaler in the British Southern Whale Fishery, making seven complete whaling voyages and being lost c.1841 on her eighth.
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.
James Sibbald was launched at Bombay in 1803. She was a "country ship", a British vessel that traded only east of the Cape of Good Hope. A French privateer captured her in late 1804, but she quickly returned to British ownership in Bombay in a process that is currently obscure. She made several for the British East India Company (EIC).
Marquis of Huntly was launched at Rotherhithe in 1811. She made 11 voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) between 1812 and 1834, when she was broken up.
Indus was launched in 1803 at Newcastle on Tyne. In 1804 the British East India Company (EIC) hired her for six voyages to India as an "extra ship". She completed the last of these six voyages in 1814. Thereafter she continued to trade with India, but privately, sailing under a licence from the EIC. She was last listed in 1823.
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