Ganges (East India Company ship)

Many vessels named Ganges, after the Ganges river in India, have served the British East India Company (EIC) between the 17th and 19th centuries.

Ganges (1676 ship), sloop of the Bengal Pilot Service
Ganges (1703 ship), sloop of the Bengal Pilot Service
Ganges (1778 ship), an East Indiaman that made six voyages for the EIC and that was sold for breaking up in 1795.^[1] Prior to being broken up she served as a transport on Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian's expedition to the West Indies (1795-96).
Ganges (1792 ship), not an East Indiaman, but did make two voyages under contract to the EIC, (one 1796 and the other in 1801), and one voyage transporting convicts to Australia in 1797.
Ganges (1794 ship), brig launched at Bombay Dockyard in 1794 for the Bengal Pilot service and destroyed by fire in 1796
Ganges (1797 ship), an East Indiaman that participated in the Battle of Pulo Aura and that was wrecked in 1807
Ganges (1799 ship), of 468 tons (bm), built in Newcastle upon Tyne and sent to India in 1802 for the local trade
Ganges (1806 ship), of 400 ¹¹⁄₉₄ tons (bm), launched at Calcutta. Acquired British Registry on 27 June 1812.^[2]
Ganges (1813 ship), a ship licensed to trade with India that the EIC chartered for two voyages between 1829 and 1832;^[3] damaged in a hurricane, she put into Mauritius in May 1833 and was condemned as unseaworthy and broken up there one month later
Ganges (1817 ship), of 430 tons (bm), launched at Greenock
Ganges (HEIC brig), an armed brig that also participated in the Battle of Pulo Aura

Citations and references

Citations

References

Hackman, Rowan (2001) Ships of the East India Company. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society). ISBN 0-905617-96-7
House of Commons, Parliament, Great Britain (1814), Minutes of the Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on Petitions Relating to East-India-Built Shipping. (H.M. Stationery Office)

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