History
United Kingdom
NameGanges
NamesakeGanges
BuilderBombay Dockyard, India
Launched1794[1][2]
FateBurned and exploded 11 January 1797 or 11 January 1799
General characteristics
Tons burthen130[1] (bm)
Sail planBrig
Complement107[3]

Ganges was a brig launched at Bombay Dockyard for the Bengal Pilot Service,[2] of the British East India Company (EIC). (She is sometimes referred to as a schooner, but that is more a reference to her role than her sailing rig.) She was burnt in Saugor Roads on 11 January 1797,[1] or 11 January 1799.[3] The accidental fire spread to the powder magazine and the explosion killed eight men. Forty men took to her boat, and 59 to a hastily constructed raft. Six hours after the men took to the raft Laurel rescued all the survivors.[3]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 Phipps (1840), p. 133.
  2. 1 2 Hackman (2001), p. 331.
  3. 1 2 3 Grocott (1997), pp. 67–68.

References

  • Grocott, Terence (1997). Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras. London: Chatham. ISBN 1861760302.
  • Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.
  • Phipps, John (1840). A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time ... Scott.
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