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East Indiaman

general name for any ship operating under charter or license to any of the East India Companies

16 dated entries naming East Indiaman, drawn from 10 separate years between 1780 CE and 1841 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as East Indiamen, Indiaman, Indiamen in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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18th century

  • 1780August 9 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish admiral Luis de Córdova y Córdova captures a British convoy totalling 55 vessels amongst Indiamen, frigates and other cargo ships off Cape St. Vincent.source
  • 17809 August – American Revolutionary War: Spanish admiral Luis de Córdova y Córdova captures a British convoy totalling 55 vessels amongst Indiamen, frigates and other cargo ships off Cape St. Vincent.source
  • 1786January 6 – The outward bound East Indiaman Halsewell is wrecked on the south coast of England in a storm, with only 74 of more than 240 on board surviving.source
  • 17866 January – the outward bound East Indiaman Halsewell is wrecked on the Isle of Purbeck in a storm with only 74 of more than 240 on board surviving.source
  • 1800October 7 – French privateer Robert Surcouf leads the 150-man crew of his corvette Confiance 1797 ship to capture the 40-gun, 437-man British East Indiaman Kent 1799 ship in the Indian Ocean.source

19th century

  • 1802November 23 – East Indiaman Vryheid, in the service of the Batavian Republic, is shipwrecked in a gale off Hythe, Kent, in the south of England; only 18 of 472 on board survive.source
  • 180223 November – East Indiaman Vryheid, in the service of the Batavian Republic, is shipwrecked in a gale off Hythe, Kent; only 18 of 472 on board survive.source
  • 18055 February – East Indiaman Earl of Abergavenny is wrecked in Weymouth Bay with the loss of 263 lives.source
  • 1809November 18 – Napoleonic Wars: Action of 18 November 1809 – In the Bay of Bengal, a French frigate squadron captures three British East Indiamen mainly carrying recruits for the presidency armies in India.source
  • 1810December 27 – Chartered British East Indiaman Elizabeth is wrecked off Dunkirk with the loss of more than 360 lives, many of them lascar seamen.source
  • 181027 December – Chartered East Indiaman Elizabeth is wrecked off Dunkirk with the loss of more than 360 lives.source
  • 181530 May - The Arniston, a British troop transport East Indiaman, is wrecked at Waenhuiskrans near Cape Agulhas while returning from the British campaigns in Ceylonsource
  • 1815May 30 – The Arniston, an East Indiaman ship repatriating wounded troops to England from Ceylon, is wrecked near Waenhuiskrans, South Africa, with the loss of 372 of the 378 people on board.source
  • 1825March 1 – The outbound British East Indiaman Kent 1820 EIC ship is destroyed by fire in the Bay of Biscay with the loss of more than 80 lives, but over 550 are saved by passing ships.source
  • 18251 March – A fire destroys the outbound East Indiaman Kent 1820 EIC ship in the Bay of Biscay with the loss of more than 80 lives, but passing ships save over 550.source
  • 184127 February — Battle of First Bar, Nemesis sank Cambridge, an old, but re-armed East Indiaman that the Chinese had purchased.source

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