East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India Companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries. The term is used to refer to vessels belonging to the Austrian, Danish, Dutch (Oostindiëvaarder), English, French, Portuguese, or Swedish (ostindiefarare) East India companies.
Britannia may refer to any one of a large number of ships:
Rolla may refer to a number of sailing ships;
Coromandel was the French prize Modeste, captured in 1793 and refitted at Chittagong, British India. She made two voyages transporting convicts to Port Jackson, the first for the British East India Company (EIC). A French privateer captured her in 1805 but she had returned to British hands before 1809. An American privateer captured her in 1814 but this time the British Royal Navy recaptured her within days. She foundered in Indian waters on 6 February 1821.
A number of sailing ships have been named Ocean.
At least four ships with the name Ocean served the Honourable East India Company as an East Indiaman between 1788 and 1810:
A number of sailing vessels were named Alexander:
A number of ships have been named Asia, including:
A number of ships with the name Asia served the British East India Company (EIC) as East Indiamen:
A number of sailing ships have been named Eliza.
Numerous vessels have borne the name Fame:
Paragon was launched at Whitby in 1800. Between 1803 and 1805 she served as an armed defense ship protecting Britain's coasts and convoys. She then served as a transport on the 1805 naval expedition to capture the Cape of Good Hope. Next, she returned to mercantile service and in 1814 a French privateer captured her, but the British Royal Navy recaptured her the next day. She sailed to India in 1818 under a license from the British East India Company (EIC}, and was wrecked in March 1819 while inbound to Calcutta.
Several ships have been named Ceres for Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture:
Lord Wellington was launched in 1812 in Quebec, possibly in Montreal. She was a London-based transport that made one voyage to India in 1819 under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). Afterwards she continued to sail to the Baltic and North America. She was last listed in 1829.
Windham was a country ship, i.e., a British vessel that in compliance with the British East India Company's monopoly on the British trade between Britain and the Far East, traded only east of the Cape of Good Hope, She was built at Demaun in 1808.
Theodosia was built at Shields in 1782. She spent 20 years trading with the Baltic, and then another dozen trading with North America and the Baltic. From 1816 she traded with India, sailing under a license from the British East India Company. She was wrecked while returning from a voyage to India in 1825.
Theodosia was built in the United States in 1811, almost certainly under another name. She was taken in prize and a began sailing under the British flag in 1815. She sailed between London and India under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She caught fire in February 1820 and her crew and passengers had to abandon ship.
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