Description
Folio, 206 pages, contemporary vellum, commencing 12 February 1792, ending 6th June 1793, noting, inter alia, "3 recruits in irons on information of their having made use of piratical language... by threatening to form into a body letting prisoners out of arms and seizing the ship", prisoners put ashore at Bombay, prisoners punished with lashes, referring to delivery of Honourable Company's iron, references to numerous Honourable Company ships, arrival at Whampoa Beach, collecting cargo of bales of cotton, sandalwood & tea, careening ship to repair copper sheathing, referring to Lord Macartney's voyage to China, &c
Footnote
Note: Rowan Hackman's work, Ships of the East India Company (published 2001), records the following:
"1785-1802
798.89/94 bm 116'2 x 35'11 x 14'10
2.11.1785 launched by Barnard, Deptford, for Sir Richard Hotham. Captain John Atkinson Blanshard.
1786-1787 Bombay direct
1790 Coromandel Coast and China
2.1.1792 - 19.6.1793 Bombay and China. Sold to Walter Powell.
In 1792/3 she was under the command of Capt. John Atkinson Blanshard and in 1793 was sold to Robert Wigram."