British Merchant east indiaman 'Bencoolen' (1818)

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Bencoolen
Nominal Guns	Unknown	EICS
Nationality	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Operator	Private Owners
Acquired	1818	EICS
Shipyard	Liverpool - Lancashire	EICS
Category	Merchant	EICS
Ship Type	East Indiaman	EICS
Sailing Rig	Ship Rigged	EICS
Broken Up	1844	EICS

Dimensions

DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric EquivalentE-WIKI
Length of Gundeck144' 2"Imperial Feet43.8924
Breadth26' 8"Imperial Feet7.9587
Burthen416 ⁵³⁄₉₄Tons BM
DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric EquivalentEICS
Burthen416Tons BM

Owners

DatesOwnerSource
1818 - 1832E-WIKI
1832 - 1839EICS
1839 - 1844EICS

2 Ship Commanders

DatesRankNameSource
1819 - 1820CaptainE-WIKI1832 - 1833Captain (HEIC)EICS

Notes on Ship

EIC JournalIORMAR

416 tons.

Principal Managing Owner: William Martin.

Voyages:

(1) 1831/2 Bengal. Capt William Tullis. Downs 8 Aug 1832 - 27 Dec Calcutta - 11 Feb 1833 Diamond Harbour - 24 Apr St Helena - 15 Jun Blackwall.

Sources

IDNameAuthorType

E-WIKIVarious, Web Site

EICSAndrea Cordani, Cy Harrison, Web Site

IORMAR Archive

Previous comments on this page

Posted by AvM on Tuesday 18th of June 2019 16:30

Bencoolen
registered London #229 in 1837 416 53/94 master Fa.Gilbert

Shipping and Mercantile Gazette - Wednesday 08 November 1843
offered for sale

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