London

Posted by Jon Miller on Wednesday 27th of May 2026 15:49

London, 17 February 1752: This day the East-India Company received advice of the arrival at Portsmouth of the Swallow, Captain Bell. He left Bengal the 30th of March, Fort St David’s the 16th of August, and the Cape the 10th of November. The Warwick, Captain Webb, arrived at Fort St David’s the 8th of June, and sailed the 11th of July for China. The Stretham sailed for Bombay three weeks before the Swallow left St Helena, which was the 4th of December, then no ships there. All the outwardbound ships are safe arrived at their several stations in India. The Wager, Captain Hindman, and the Scarborough, Captain D’Auvergne, are taken up in the country service. The Dragon, Captain Kent, was to be dispatched in three days from Fort St David’s for England, after the Swallow sailed. Captain Alwright of the London Indiaman is dead. [Kentish Post, 19 February 1752]

Posted by Jon Miller on Tuesday 26th of May 2026 06:51

London, 6 July 1751: Yesterday the Purser of the Prince Edward, Capt Haldane, came to the India-House with the agreeable news of the said ship’s arrival at Spithead from China, on Thursday last. She sailed from St Helena on the 11th of May. The Severn, Capt Dorrill, from Bengal, sailed from thence in company with her, and parted from her a few days after. The Grantham, Capt Oliver, and the York, Capt Ward, sailed from Canton the middle of January. The Grantham had met with some damage in the Streights of Sunda, and had put into Batavia to be repaired. The Warren, Capt Glover, and the Britannia, Capt Sumner, from Bombay for Bengal, lost their passage, and will not come home this year. The Walpole, Capt Fee, and the London, Capt Sedgwick, were to be dispatched a few days after the Severn from Bengal. [Kentish Post, 10 July 1751]

Posted by Jon Miller on Monday 25th of May 2026 07:58

London, 11 May 1751: Yesterday the Pursers of the Boscawen, Capt Braund, from Bombay, and the Fort St George, Capt Booky, were arrived at Bombay, and the Ilchester, Capt Tedd, at Persia. The Britannia, Capt Summer, is gone to Bengal; the Walpole, Capt Fee, lost her passage to India, and was returned to Bengal; Capt Low, who went out commander, is dead. The Warren, Capt Glover, is gone to Bengal; the Swallow, Capt Bell, was to be dispatched from Fort St David’s, the middle of January; and the Kent, Capt Robson, the London, Capt Sedgwick, and the Benjamin, Capt Meard, were to sail from Bengal in December. [Kentish Post, 15 May 1751]

Posted by AvM on Monday 4th of October 2021 23:41

From late HAckman's book

LONDON. Ship. 1749-1762.
668 bm.
13.7.1749: Launched by Wells & Stanton, Deptford, for Robert Bootle. Captain William Sedgwicke.
1) 28.2.1750 - 11.6.1752: Coromandel Coast and Bengal
2) 24.1.1754 - 9.12.1756: Madras direct. Captain Richard Allwright.
3) 24.4.1758 - 24.10.1759: Coromandel Coast and Bengal.
4) 2.5.1760 - 26.11.1761: Bombay direct. Captain John Webb.
24.2.1762: Sold at Lloyd's Coffee House to Woodman's, London, and placed in the Canadian timber trade. Name
retained.

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