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EIC voyage #1 (1803-1804)
Captain John Mackintosh sailed from The Downs on 30 March 1803, bound for Madras. [1] He was issued a letter of marque on 16 July, i.e., [2] after he had left. Union arrived at Madras on 16 August, and left on 22 October. She reached St Helena on 12 January 1804, and arrived at the Downs on 5 April. [1]
EIC voyage #2 (1804-1806)
Captain Mackintosh sailed from Portsmouth on 4 September 1804, bound for St Helena and Bengal. Union was at Madeira on 27 September and St Helena on 23 December. She reached Diamond Harbour on 28 April 1805. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 26 August. [1] She left Bengal on 29 August in company with the frigate HMS Howe, but they parted a few days later; [4] Union reached St Helena on 30 November. [1] While Union was at St Helena the whaler Iris came in and was condemned at unseaworthy. Union carried her cargo of oil back to England. Union reached Cork on 6 Apr 1806, and arrived at the Downs on 27 April. [1]
EIC voyage #3 (1806-1808)
Captain Mackintosh sailed from Plymouth on 24 September 1806, bound for Madras and Bengal. [1]
On 21 December she parted from her consort, Skelton Castle. Mackintosh had signalled that he wanted to put into the Cape of Good Hope for water and fresh provisions. Captain Vaughn of Skelton Castle replied that he did not need either and that he would take advantage off the fair winds and go on to Madras. It appears that Vaughn wanted Skelton Castle to be the first ship of the season to arrive in India and so benefit his own cargo.Skelton Castle disappeared without a trace.
Union reached the Cape on 22 December and Madras on 11 March 1807. She arrived at Diamond Harbour on 6 April and was at Calcutta on 4 July. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 16 September, leaving it on 11 October. She stopped at Madras on 22 October, and was at the Cape on 30 December. She reached St Helena on 25 January 1808, and arrived at the Downs on 5 April. [1]
EIC voyage #4 (1808-1810)
Captain George Simpson sailed from Portsmouth on 17 September 1808, bound for Madras and Bengal. Union was at Madeira on 28 September, and reached Madras on 11 February 1809. She arrived at Calcutta on 23 March. Homeward bound, she was at Diamond Harbour on 4 July and Saugor on 25 August. She was at Madras from 24 September to 14 October. She reached the Cape on 26 December and St Helena on 28 January 1810; she arrived at The Downs on 15 April. [1]
EIC voyage #5 (1811-1812)
Captain Robert Rankine sailed from Portsmouth on 12 March 1811, bound for Bombay, Madras, and Bengal. Union was at Madeira on 4 April and reached Bombay on 24 July. She reached Madras on 3 September and arrived at Calcutta on 20 October. Homeward bound, left Calcutta on 16 December, and was at Saugor on 13 February 1812. She arrived at St Helena on 12 May, [1] and left on the 24th with the fleet under escort by HMS Phaeton, but parted from them a few days later. [6] Union arrived at the Downs on 25 July. [1]
EIC voyage #6 (1813-1814)
Captain Rankine sailed from Portsmouth on 18 March 1813, bound for St Helena and Bengal, but was at Torbay on 25 March. Union reached St Helena on 22 June, and arrived at Calcutta on 10 November. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 24 February 1814 and left on 11 March. [1]
Union traveled in company with Marchioness of Exeter and "Little Pitt", [lower-alpha 1] and under escort by the 74-gun third rate HMS Danmark. Near the Cape of Good Hope a three-day hurricane hit the convoy. Union threw her 22 guns and £20,000 of silk indigo overboard to lighten her. Captain Rankine had been unwell for some weeks and was unable to exit his cabin, which flooded with water. By the time the crew was able to reach him after the three days, he was found dead, presumed drowned. Union reached the Cape, where Captain Rankine was buried. "Little Pitt" never arrived and was presumed to have foundered. Marchioness of Exeter and Danmark, also "much distressed", arrived three days after Union. [7]
Union, "late Rankin" had reached the Cape on 18 June. Lloyd's List further reported that she had thrown part of her cargo overboard in bad weather. It also reported that Marchioness of Exeter had arrived two days before Union. [8]
Union's first officer was William Lock, and presumably it was he that took command. She left the Cape on 25 August, was at St Helena on 6 September, and arrived at the Downs on 16 November. [1]
EIC voyage #7 (1815-1816)
Captain John Edward Johnson sailed from The Downs on 22 May 1815, bound for Bengal and Bencoolen. Union was at Madeira on 10 June and at Diamond Harbour on 16 November; she arrived at Calcutta on 8 December. Continuing her voyage, she was at Saugor on 24 February 1816, and reached Bencoolen on 28 April. She visited Batavia on 14 May. She stopped at Indremayo on 28 June before returning to Batavia on 21 July. She left Batavia on 10 August, reached St Helena on 17 October, and arrived at the Downs on 16 December. [1]
EIC voyage #8 (1817-1818)
Captain Johnson sailed from The Downs on 6 May 1817, bound for Bengal and Madras. Union was at Madeira on 21 May and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 23 September. She left Diamond Harbour on 28 January 1818 and by 13 February was in Coringa Roads. She reached Madras on 6 March, Colombo on 7 April, the Cape on 18 June, and St Helena on 17 July. She arrived at the Downs on 16 September. [1]
Baring was a three-decker East Indiaman that made six voyages to India for the British East India Company (EIC) between 1802 and 1814. Her owners then sold her and under new owners she made two voyages transporting convicts to Australia. Her last appearance in Lloyd's Register is in 1820.
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.
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.
Ann was launched at Rotherhithe in the River Thames in 1801. She made eight voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) as an "extra ship", i.e., under charter, between 1801 and 1817. After 1817 she traded with India for some time and she was last listed in 1826.
Streatham was launched in 1805 as an East Indiaman for the British East India Company (EIC). She made seven voyages for the EIC. On her second voyage the French captured her, but the British Royal Navy recaptured her some months later. She was broken up in 1821.
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.
Phoenix was launched in 1804 as an East Indiaman. She made six voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), between 1805 and 1819. In 1810 and 1811 she participated as a transport in two British military campaigns. She was broken up by 1821.
William Pitt was launched in 1805 as an East Indiaman. She made seven voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), between 1805 and 1819. In 1810 and 1811 she participated as a transport in two British military campaigns. She was sold for breaking up in 1820.
Union was launched at Calcutta in 1801. She sailed to England and then made five voyages as an East Indiaman for the British East India Company (EIC), between 1805 and 1814. She was wrecked in late 1815 or early 1816.
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.
Lord Castlereagh was launched on the Thames in 1802 as an East Indiaman She made seven voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) before she was sold in 1820. She then may have sailed one or twice to Bombay under license from the EIC. Her subsequent disposition is currently obscure.
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.
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.
Castle Eden was launched in 1800 as an East Indiaman. She made six voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) before she became a transport in 1812 and disappears from online records.
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.
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.
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 voyages as an "extra" ship for the British East India Company (EIC). She then took one more voyage to India, sailing under a licence from the EIC. She was last listed in 1820.
Prince Regent was launched at Blackwall in 1811. She made ten voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), between 1811 and 1834 to India and China. She made one more voyage to China after the end of the EIC's trading activities in 1833, and was broken up in 1838.
Marchioness of Exeter was launched in 1801 as an East Indiaman of the British East India Company (EIC). She made seven complete voyages for the EIC. She then made one more voyage to Java, sailing under a license from the EIC. Her last voyage ended in 1819.
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