• Alexander was a merchant vessel launched at Bombay in 1803. She was shipwrecked in 1815 while on passage from Bombay to London two miles (3 km) from the...
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  • Alexander (1803 ship Bombay), a ship of 600 or 746 tons burthen, launched in 1803 at Bombay and wrecked in 1815. Alexander (1803 Liverpool), a ship of...
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  • Alexander was a sailing ship built by Henry Baldwin and launched in Quebec in 1801. She was registered in London in 1802. She sailed for the British East...
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  • Alexander was launched in 1803 at Liverpool, but contracted to the Honourable East India Company (EIC), which took her measurements in 1804, and which...
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  • Indigenous tribals have inhabited Mumbai (Bombay) since the Stone Age. The Kolis and Aagri (a Marathi-Konkani people) were the earliest known settlers...
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  • for Bombay and China. Bombay Castle reached Bombay on 30 May 1803. She was at Malacca on 28 August, and arrived at Whampoa on 1 October. Bombay Castle...
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  • James Sibbald was launched at Bombay in 1803. She was a "country ship", a British vessel that traded only east of the Cape of Good Hope (the Cape). A...
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  • Charlotte was built at the Bombay Dockyard in 1803. She spent most of her career as a country ship, trading between India and China, though she did sail...
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    1803, bound for Bombay, Bengal, and Madras. He sailed under a letter of marque issued on 27 June 1803, i.e., after he had left. Ceylon reached Bombay...
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  • Lord Forbes was launched at Chester in 1803 as a West Indiaman. She soon became an "armed defense ship", but by 1805 had returned to being a West Indiaman...
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    along India's west coast. Administratively known as Greater Mumbai (Greater Bombay), the Mumbai Suburban district, Mira Bhayander and a portion of Thane district...
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  • David Scott was launched at Bombay in 1801. She was a "country ship", i.e., she generally traded east of the Cape of Good Hope. Between 1802 and 1816...
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  • Portsmouth on 9 September, bound for Bombay and Bengal. Sovereign reached Cochin on 26 January 1802 and arrived at Bombay on 10 February. She then made an...
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  • list of ship launches in 1803 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1803. "French Third Rate ship of the line 'Brutus' (1803)". Threedecks...
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    Hero 74 (1803) – wrecked on the Haak Islands 25 December 1811 Illustrious 74 (1803) – hulked as ordinary guard ship Plymouth 1848, hospital ship 1853, reverted...
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  • February 1799. Capt Alexander Gray received a letter of marque on 4 December 1799. He left Portsmouth on 7 January 1800, bound for Bombay and China. Ganges...
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    1803, August 27 – HMS Seagull recaptures the East Indiaman Lord Nelson 1803, October 15 – The British slave ship Tamer captures the French slave ship...
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  • was trading in India in 1803 when a fire destroyed her, with great loss of life. A Caledonia appears on a list of country ships that participated in expeditions...
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    Blenden Hall, a British ship which set sail in 1821 with 54 passengers and crew aboard, her destination Bombay. Captain Alexander Grieg intended to sail...
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  • the London Tavern where from 8p.m. there was a ball. EIC voyage #1 (1802–1803): Captain John Locke, Jr. sailed from Portsmouth on 18 March 1802, during...
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  • Milford was built at Bombay in 1786 for Pestonjee Bomanjee and John Tasker. She was a country ship that traded around India and between India and China...
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    from Cochin, in the Malabar region, to Goa in 1530. From 1535, Mumbai (Bombay) was a harbour of Portuguese India, known as Bom Bahia, until it was handed...
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  • (1803-1804): Captain James Carnegie acquired a letter of marque on 15 October 1803. He sailed from the Downs on 10 February 1803, bound for Bombay. Experiment...
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    1815 aged 63. In 1803, he received a government commission in England on all cotton belonging to the Company and exported from Bombay as the reward for...
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  • acquired a letter of marque on 11 June 1803. He sailed from Plymouth on 17 July, bound for Madras and Bombay. Ann was at Rio de Janeiro on 23 September...
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    EIC voyage #2 (1802-1803): Captain Sanders sailed from The Downs on 17 June 1802, bound for the Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, and Bombay. Travers was at the...
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    India Company packet ship of only six guns, also sailed under a letter of marque. In addition, the company had its own navy, the Bombay Marine, equipped with...
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  • Major-General Sir David Baird, who was going to Trincomalee to take a faster ship to Bombay. There he would take command of the Indian army that was going to Egypt...
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  • sail to Bombay to effect repairs. She arrived at Bombay on 22 March. On 16 April 1813 Marquis Wellesley, Le Blanc, master, struck a rock in Bombay Harbour...
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  • Captain William Hardcastle left the Downs on 13 March 1786, bound for Bengal, Bombay, and China. Hillsborough was part of a convoy that also included the East...
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