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Rose and peony Discoverer
Listing last updated on Wed Aug 2024
West Lea
Wormley, Hertfordshire
United Kingdom
A captain of the East India Company ( - November 4, 1829).
[From "A Register of Ships Employed in the Service of the Honorable The United East India Company From the Year 1760 to 1810" by Charles Hardy and Horatio Charles Hardy, 1811:]
Sworn in as Commander on September 24, 1806 on the "Alfred".
Trips:
"Princess Royal" (805 Reg. ton.): 5.4.1793 Portsmouth - St. Helena and China - Taken by the French 29.9.1795 (for Alexander Hume, Capt. James Horncastle, 2 James Pendergrass, 4 George Welstead)
"Pitt" (775 Reg.ton.): 11.8.1796 Portsmouth - Bengal - 4.8.1798 (for John Wells, Capt. John Gerrard, 2 George Welstead)
"Bengal": 27.5.1800 Torbay - Bengal - 14.8.1801 (as 1 for Gabriel Gillett, Capt. Adam Cumine,
"Tellicherry": 13.4.1802 Downs - Bengal - 27.4.1803 (for John St. Barbe)
"Euphrates" (built 1802, 632 Reg.ton.): 28.9. 1803 Portsmouth - 20.2.1804 Madras 16.3.1803 - April 1804 Bengal
"Euphrates": 21.10.1804 Fort St. George, Madras - 31.12.1804 St. Helena 13.1.1805 - 24.3.1805 Plymouth (for Thomas Hurry)
"Alfred": 26.2.1807 Portsmouth - St. Helena, Bengal & China - 11.9.1808 Portsmouth
"Alfred": 19.2.1810 Portsmouth - Madras/China
"General Harris": 1817
"Berwickshire": 20.11.1828 Madan, China - 20.3.1829 Isle of Wight
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