Hind (1800 ship)

History
Great Britain
NameHind or Hinde
Owner
  • 1800: Foster & Co.
  • 1801:Crosbie & Co.
  • 1808:Todd & co.
  • 1812:Kennan
  • 1814:Johns
BuilderHull
Launched1800
FateWrecked April 1815[a]
General characteristics
Tons burthen385,[1] or 400[2] (bm)
PropulsionSail
Armament
  • 1801:12 × 6-pounder guns[3]
  • 1815:14 × 12-pounder + 2 ×18-pounder guns[4]

Hind or Hinde was launched at Hull in 1800. After a voyage to Russia she made one voyage for the British East India Company. She then became a West Indiaman. She was wrecked in April 1815.

Career

Hind, of Hull, entered Lloyd's Register in 1800 with a burthen of 305 tons, Farthing, master, Foster, owner, and trade Hull—Archangel. In the 1801 edition her burthen was 385 tons, and her owner M. Foster. The other information was the same.[3]

EIC voyage: Captain William Cattin (or Caitline) sailed from the Downs on 8 January 1801, bound for Bengal.[5] William Catline tendered her to the EIC to bring back rice from Bengal. She was one of 28 vessels that sailed on that mission between December 1800 and February 1801.[2]

See also: Transport vessels for the British Government's importation of rice from Bengal (1800–1802)

Hind arrived at Calcutta on 24 June. Homeward bound, she was at Culpee on 5 September, reached Saint Helena on 31 December, and arrived at the Downs on 23 February 1802.[5] On 30 March 1802 the Court of Directors of the United Company of Merchants trading with the East Indies (the EIC), announced that on 22 April they would offer for sale 37,000 bags of rice brought by Hind, Hope, Minerva, Ceres, and Bellona.[6]

Lloyd's Register for 1802 made no mention of the voyage to India. It showed Hind's master changing from M. Farthing to E.Darby, her owner from Foster to Crosbie & Co., and her trade from Hull—Archangel to London—Jamaica.[7] However, the Register of Shipping for 1802, which published earlier in the year than Lloyd's Register, showed HInd's master changing from Caitling to E. Darby, her owner from Foster to Crosby, and her trade from London—India to London—Jamaica.[8]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1805 E. Darby Crosby & Co. London—Barbados Register of Shipping
1809 E. Darby
J. Young 		Crosby & Co.
Todd & Co. 		London—Jamaica
London—Hayti 		Register of Shipping
1810 Young Todd & Co. London—Grenada Register of Shipping
1812 Kennan Capt. & Co. London—Surinam Register of Shipping

Fate

The Register of Shipping volume for 1815 shows Hind, of 384 tons (bm), launched at Hull in 1800, with J. Johns, master and owner, and trade London–Surinam.[4]

Hind, Johns, master, from Surinam, was surveyed there and found unseaworthy.[9] Still, Johns decided to sail on to England, possibly after repairs. On 14 April 1815 Hind, Johns, master, from Surinam to London, ran on shore in the back of the Goodwin Sands. She was totally lost but her master and crew landed at Margate. Only four bales of cotton and 90 bags of coffee were saved.[10]

Notes

  1. ^ There is a report that the French captured her in 1814,[1] but the vessel that was captured was probably Henry, Hind, master.

Citations

  1. ^ a b Hackman (2001), p. 234.
  2. ^ a b Hardy (1811), p. 217.
  3. ^ a b Lloyd's Register (1801), Seq.№H342.
  4. ^ a b Register of Shipping (1815), №H648.
  5. ^ a b British Library: Hind.
  6. ^ "No. 15467". The London Gazette. 30 March 1802. p. 337.
  7. ^ Lloyd's Register (1802), Seq.№H428.
  8. ^ Register of Shipping (1802), Seq.№H400.
  9. ^ Lloyd's List (17 June 1814).
  10. ^ Lloyd's List №4963.

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