Ganges (1794 ship)
| History | |
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| Name: | Ganges |
| Namesake: | Ganges |
| Builder: | Bombay Dockyard, India |
| Launched: | 1794[1][2] |
| Fate: | Burnt 1799 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen: | 130[1] (bm) |
| Sail plan: | Brig |
| Complement: | 107[3] |
Ganges was a brig launched at Bombay Dockyard for the Bengal Pilot Service,[2] of the British East India Company (EIC). (She is sometimes referred to as a schooner, but that is more a reference to her role than her sailing rig. She was burnt in Saugor Roads on 11 January 1797,[1] or 11 January 1799.[3] The accidental fire spread to the powder magazine and the explosion killed eight men. Forty men took to her boat, and 59 to a hastily constructed raft. Six hours after the men took to the raft Laurel rescued all the survivors.[3]
Citations and references
Citations
References
- Grocott, Terence (1997) Shipwrecks of the revolutionary & Napoleonic eras (Chatham). ISBN 1-86176-030-2
- Hackman, Rowan (2001) Ships of the East India Company. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society). ISBN 0-905617-96-7
- Phipps, John Phipps (of the Master Attendant's Office, Calcutta) (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). (Google eBook)
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