Cassandra

Posted by AvM on Tuesday 3rd of March 2026 22:45

SHIPS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
Rowan Hackman

CASSANDRA. Ship. 1719-1720.
380 bm.
10.1719: Launched by Thomas Bronsdon, Deptford, for Peter Hambly. Captain James Macrae.
1) 3.3.1720 - 17.8.1720: Bombay direct.
17.8.1820: Taken while at the anchorage at Johanna, Comoro Islands, by the pirates England and Taylor. Her
consort the GREENWICH managed to set sail and escape, but the CASSANDRA grounded while attempting to
follow her.
2.1721: Arrived at Mauritius after a piracy cruise off the Malabar Coast. Captain Macrae had been given an old
pirate ship and allowed to make his way to Bombay.
8.1721: Arrive at Reunion under Taylor, who had supplanted England in command of the pirates.
12.1722: Sailed from Delagoa Bay for the West Indies, after warning the numerous pirate settlements in
Madagascar that a British Naval Squadron was arriving to take them.
7.1723: Arrived at Porto Bello, where Taylor enlisted into the service of the Spanish Navy, the CASSANDRA
being taken into it as a 5th Rate. The loss of this new ship was probably the Company's worst loss by piracy.