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Kent

31007
Nominal GunsUnknownEICS
NationalityGreat Britain
OperatorEast India Company
Acquired1764EICS
ShipyardUnknownEICS
CategoryMerchantEICS
Ship TypeEast Indiaman
Sailing RigShip Rigged
Last known1774EICS

Dimensions


DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric EquivalentEICS
Burthen676Tons BM 


Notes on Ship


VoyagesIORMAR

Built by Wells, launched 1764, 3 decks, 4in bottom, length 145ft 11in, keel 118ft ½in, breadth 36ft 7½in, hold 14ft 11in, wing transom 23ft 9in, port cell 26ft 3½in, between decks 6ft 3in, ports 13 middle & upper, 842 tons.

Principal Managing Owner: George Wilson.

Voyages:

(1) 1763/4 Bengal and Bombay. Capt John Milles. Portsmouth 4 Jun 1764 - 7 Oct Rio de Janeiro - 19 Dec Cape - 11 Apr 1765 Madras - 5 May Kedgeree - 23 Dec Ingeli - 11 Jun 1766 St Helena - 13 Sep Downs.

(2) 1767/8 Madras and Bengal. Capt John Milles. Downs 20 Dec 1767 - 12 Jan 1768 Madeira - 15 May Johanna - 20 Jun Madras - 9 Jul Culpee - 5 Nov Ingeli - 7 Feb 1769 Cape - 9 Mar St Helena - 28 May Downs.

(3) 1769/70 China. Capt John Milles. Downs 6 Mar 1770 - 3 Sep Whampoa - 17 Dec Second Bar - 30 Mar 1771 St Helena - 9 Jul Downs.

(4) 1772/3 Madras and China. Capt David Thompson. Downs 21 Dec 1772 - 4 Jan 1773 Madeira - 27 Mar Cape - 1 Jun Madras - 3 Aug Malacca - 3 Sep Whampoa - 13 Jan 1774 Second Bar - 7 May St Helena - 11 Jul Downs.



 
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Posted by Jon Miller on Sunday 21st of June 2026 07:22

Sunday last was married at Lymington, Mr Douglass, surgeon of the Kent East-Indiaman, to Miss St Barbe, of the same town; a very agreeable lady with a genteel fortune. [Hampshire Chronicle, 7 September 1772]


Posted by AvM on Thursday 8th of February 2024 19:35

SHIPS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
Rowan Hackman

KENT. Ship. 1764-1774.
676 bm. 118'1 x 36'8 x 14'11
19.3.1764: Launched by Batson, Limehouse, for George Willson. Captain John Miles
1) 4.6.1764 - 13.9.1766: Bengal and Bombay.
2) 20.12.1767 - 28.5.1769: Coromandel Coast and Bengal.
3) 6.3.1770 - 9.7.1771: China direct.
4) 23.12.1772- 11.7.1774: Coromandel Coast and China.
1774: Sold for breaking up.


Posted by Ian Boreham on Tuesday 6th of February 2024 19:09

On 4 June, 1774, Captain Tobias Furneaux in Adventure sailing northwards in the Atlantic Ocean wrote, “Spoke [to] the Kent East Indiaman, from St Helena”.

William Bayly, the astronomer aboard, wrote, “Spoke with the Kent Indiaman from China, Captain David Thomson”.


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