Ganges

Posted by Jon Miller on Tuesday 28th of July 2026 10:08

London, 9 February 1802: Yesterday advice was received at the East India-house of the safe arrival at Portsmouth, of the Eliza Ann, from Bengal, which Presidency she left early in October, accompanied by he ship Duke of Clarence. The Eliza Ann is laden wholly with rice. The following ships were to sail, freighted with rice, the latter end of the month of November, , viz, the Ganges, Captain Forster Brown; the Young Nicholas, Captain Richard Silby; the Minerva, Captain Richardson; and the Sir Edward Hamilton, Captain A Robertson. [Morning Chronicle, 9 February 1802]

Posted by Jon Miller on Sunday 31st of May 2026 00:04

The following are the only ships now remaining to arrive of the season, 1800, viz: the extra ship Melville Castle, Captain John Lambe; the Travers, Capt Thomas Sanders; and the Skelton Castle, Captain Matthew Isaacke, from Bengal; with the Rockingham, Capt Thomas Butler, from Fort St George and Bengal. The Ganges, Capt Alexander Gray, is the only ship remaining to arrive from China. The Company’s ships the Henry Addington, Ocean, and Nottingham, which sailed from Portsmouth the 9th of January last, are expected to arrive from Bombay and China in April or May next. The Dover Castle, Duke of Montrose, Charlton, Sir Stephen Lushington, Calcutta, Asia, and Walpole, are the next ships to arrive from Madras and Bengal. [London Courier, 8 December 1801]