History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce, Volume 2 (of 4)

by W. S. Lindsay

APPENDIX No. 4.

Furniture of the Harry Grâce à Dieu, in Pepysian Library at Cambridge, Vol. ii. p. 94.

GONNES OF BRASSE.		GUNNES OF YRON.
Cannons	iiii	Port Pecys	xiiii
Di-Cannons	iii	Slyngs	iiii
Culveryns	iiii	Di-Slyngs	ii
Sakers	iiii	Fowlers	viii
Cannon Pesers	ii	Baessys	lx
Fawcons	ii	Toppe peces	ii
		Hayle shotte pecys	xl
		Hand Gonnes complete	c
GONNEPOWDER.		SHOTTE OF YRON.
	Lasts.	For Cannons	c
Serpentyn Powder in Barrels	ii	For Di-Cannons	lx
Corn Powder in Barrels	vi	For Culveryns	cxx
		For Di-Culveryns	lxx
		For Sakers	cxx
		For Fawcons	c
		For Slyngs	c
		For Di-Slyngs	l
		Crosse barre Shotte	c
		Dyce of Yron for Hayle Shotte	iiiim
SHOTTE OF STOEN AND LEADE.		MANYCIONS.
For Canon Peser	lx	Pych hamers	xx
For Porte Pecys	ccc	Sledges of Yron	xii
For Fowlers	c	Crows of Yron	xii
For Toppe Pecys	xl	Comaunders	xii
For Baessys Shotte of Leade	iim	Tampions	vm
		Canvas for Cartowches	iquar
		Paper Ryal for Cartowches	vi

Arrowes, Morry Pycks
Byllys, Daerts for Toppys
Bowes, Bowestryngs
Bowes of Yough	vc
Bowe Stryngs	x Grocys
Morrys Pykes	cc
Byllys	cc
Daerts for Toppis, Doussens	c
HABILLIMENTS OF WARRE.
Ropis of Hempe for wolyng and brechyng	x Coyll
Naglis of sundere sorts	im
Baggs of Ledder	xii
Fyrkyns with Pursys	vi
Lyme Potts	x Douss.
Spaer Whelys	iiii Payer
Spaer Truckells	iiii Payer
Spaer Extrys	xii
Shepe Skynnys	xxiiii
Tymber for Forlocks	c Feet

[APPENDIX No. 5.]

Names of all King’s Majesty’s Shippes, Galleys, Pynnasses, and Row barges; with their tonnage and number of Soldiers, Mariners, and Gunners; and also the places where they now be.

5 Jan. A. R. Ed. VI. primo.

Vol. ii. p. 95.

Shippes at Wolwidge.

The Harry Grâce à Dieu, 1000 tons. Souldiers, 349. Marryners, 301. Gonners 50. Brass Pieces, 19. Iron Pieces, 103.

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AT PORTSMOUTH.
	Tons.	Soldiers.	Brass Pieces.	Iron Pieces.
The Peter	600	400	12	78
The Matthewe	600	300	10	121
The Jesus	700	300	8	66
The Pauncy	450	300	13	69
The Great Barke	500	300	12	85
The Lesse Barke	400	250	11	98
The Murryan	500	300	10	53
The Shruce of Dawske	450	250	10	39
The Cristoffer	400	246	2	51
The Trynytie Henry	250	220	1	63
The Swepe Stake	300	230	6	78
The Mary Willoughby	140	160	6	23
GALLIES AT PORTSMOUTH.
	Tons.	Soldiers.	Brass Pieces.	Iron Pieces.
The Anne Gallant	450	250	16	46
The Sallamander	300	220	9	40
The Harte	300	200	4	52
The Antelope	300	200	4	40
The Swallowe	240	100	8	45
The Unycorne	240	140	6	30
The Jeannet	180	120	6	35
The New barke	200	140	5	48
The Greyhounde	200	140	8	37
The Teager	200	120	4	39
The Bulle	200	120	5	42
The Lyone	140	140	2	48
The George	60	40	2	26
The Dragone	140	120	3	42
PYNNASSES AT PORTESMOUTH.
	Tons.	Soldiers.	Brass Pieces.	Iron Pieces.
The Fawcone	83	55	4	22
The Black Pynnes	80	44	2	15
The Hynde	80	55	2	26
The Spannyshe Shallop	20	26	2	7
The Hare	15	30	2	10
ROW-BARGES AT PORTESMOUTH.
	Tons.	Soldiers.	Brass Pieces.	Iron Pieces.
The Sonne	20	40	2	6
The Cloude in the Sonne	20	40	2	7
The Harpe	20	40	1	6
The Maidenheade	20	37	1	6
The Gilly Flowre	20	38	1	6
The Ostredge Flowre	20	37	1	6
The Roose Slipe	20	37	2	6
The Flower de lewce	20	43	2	7
The Rose in the Sonne	20	38	1	6
The Port quilice	20	38	1	6
The Fawcone in the Fetterlock	20	45	3	8
DEPTFORD STRAND.
	Tons.	Soldiers.	Brass Pieces.	Iron Pieces.
The Graunde Mrs	450	250	1	22
The Marlyon	40	50	4	8
The Galley Subtill, or Roo Galley	200	250	3	28
The Brickgantyne	40	44	3	19
The Hoye barke	80	60	3	5
The Hawthorne	20	37	3	5
IN SCOTLAND.
	Tons.	Soldiers.	Brass Pieces.	Iron Pieces.
The Mary Hamborrow	400	246	5	67
The Phɶnix	40	50	4	33
The Saker	40	50	2	18
The Doble Roose	0	43	3	6
		Tons.	Nombre of Men.
Totale Number of Ships, &c.		53	6255
	Soldiers		1885
	Maryners		5136
	Gonners		759
			7780[432]

[APPENDIX No. 6.]

Vol. ii. p. 177.

“A note of all the Shipps that’s bound for Turkey out of England, and the Burden of them and the Captaynes Names as followeth:[433]

The King’s Maties Shipps.
	Tunns	Capt.
The Lyon	668	Sir Robert Mansell
The Vantgard	661	Sir Rich. Hawkins
The Raine bow	661	Sir Tho. Batten.
The Reformation	620	Cap. Manering.
The Destine	550	Cap. Love.
The Anthelopp	443	Sir Hen. Palmer.
The Marchants.
The Low fenex	300	Cap. Cave.
The Hercules	300	Cap. Pennington.
The Samuell	300	Cap. Harris.
The Hector	300	Cap. Towerson.
The Neptune	300	Cap. Haughton.
The Bonaventure	300	Cap. Chidlie.
The Centurion	250	Sir Fra. Tanfield.
The Marigold	250	Sir John Fearns.
The Primrose	180	Sir John Handen.
The Barbery	180	Cap. Porter.
The Restore	130	Cap. Raymond.
The George	130	Cap. Pett.
The Robert	100	Cap. Gyles.
The Marmaduke	100	Cap. Harbest.”

[APPENDIX No. 7. Vol. ii. p. 433.]

MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD.

Tabular Statement, showing the Water Area, Quay Space, Width of Entrance, and Depth of Sill for each of the Liverpool and Birkenhead Docks, with particulars of the Graving Docks, Open Basins, Landing Stages, and Gridirons.

January, 1872.

The Old Dock Sill is the Datum to which all Levels refer, and is preserved on a Tide Gauge at the West side of the Centre Pier of the Entrances to the Canning Half-Tide Dock.

The Old Dock contained an Area of 3 acres 1890 yards, and 557 lineal yards of Quay Space.

Its Passage contained an Area of 3 acres 675 yards, and 90 lineal yards of Quay Space.

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.
Liverpool Docks.	Position and Width of Entrance or Passage.			Sill below Datum.		Coping at Hollow Quoins above Dtm.		Water Area.		Lineal Quayage.
		Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.	Ac.	Yds.	Miles	Yds.
North Carrier’s Dock	West	40	0	6	0	27	0	2	3423	0	641
South Carrier’s Dock	West	40	0	6	0	27	0	1	4515	0	615
Canada Half-Tide Dock	West	60	0	7	9	28	0	11	1010	0	1002
Canada Half-Tide Dock	South	80	0	7	9	28	0	..		..
Canada Half-Tide Dock (Lock 110 feet long)	N. West	32	0	6	0	28	0	..		..
Canada Half-Tide Dock	S. West	20	0	6	0	28	0	..		..
Canada Lock (498 ft. long)		100	0	7	9	28	0	1	3479	0	487
Canada Dock	S. East	50	0	6	6	29	0	17	4043	0	1272
Canada Dock	S. West	80	0	6	6	29	0	..		..
Huskisson Dock	..	..		..		..		14	3451	0	1039
Huskisson Branch Dock.	..	..		..		..		7	592	0	910
Huskisson Lock (338 ft. long)	East	80	0	6	6	38	0	0	4682	0	342
Huskisson Lock (338 ft. long)	West	45	0	6	0	26	0	0	3650	0	330
Sandon Dock	West	70	0	6	6	30	11	10	100	0	867
Wellington Half-Tide Dock.	East	70	0	6	9	30	9	3	813	0	400
Wellington Half-Tide Dock.	West	50	0	6	6	28	0	..		..
Wellington Dock	West	70	0	6	6	31	0	7	4120	0	820
Bramley-Moore Dock	North	60	0	6	0	26	0	9	3106	0	935
Bramley-Moore Dock	South	60	0	6	0	26	0	..		..
Nelson Dock	South	60	0	6	6	26	0	7	4786	0	803
Stanley Dock	West	51	0	5	8	29	0	7	120	0	753
Stanley Dock	Canal	18	0	2	6	29	0	..		..
Canal Basin, let to Bridgewater Trust	West	18	0	O.D.S.		26	0	0	920	0	110
Collingwood Dock	West	60	0	6	9	26	0	5	244	0	553
Collingwood Dock	Canal	18	0	2	6	26	0	..		..
Salisbury Dock	West North	60	0	6	11	26	0	3	2146	0	406
Salisbury Dock	West South	50	0	6	11	26	6	..		..
Salisbury Dock	West Lock	18	0	2	6	26	0	..		..
Clarence Graving Dock Basin	North	45	0	4	9	26	0	1	1056	0	291
Clarence Graving Dock Basin	South	45	0	4	6	26	6	..		..
Clarence Half-Tide Dock	West	50	0	5	0	26	8	4	1794	0	635
Clarence Dock	West	47	0	3	2	26	0	6	273	0	914
Trafalgar Lock	North	45	0	6	7	23	10	0	2937	0	256
Trafalgar Dock	North	45	0	6	7	21	11	5	4546	0	764
Victoria Dock	North	45	0	4	11	21	11	5	3559	0	755
Victoria Dock	South	50	0	6	6	26	0	..		..
Waterloo Dock	South	60	0	8	0	22	1	3	2146	0	533
Corn Warehouse Dock	South	60	0	8	0	22	1	2	3375	0	506
Half-Tide Dock to Corn Warehouse Dock	West North	65	0	8	0	31	0	4	3250	0	429
Half-Tide Lock (110 ft. long)	West Middle	32	0	8	0	31	0	..		..
Half-Tide Lock	West South	65	0	8	0	31	0	..		..
Prince’s Dock	North	45	0	5	11	27	5	11	1490	0	1178
George’s Dock	..	..		..		..		5	154	0	645
George’s Dock Passage	South	40	3	4	6	24	5	0	2439	0	356
				Sill above Datum
Manchester Dock	{ West	32	10	0	3	23	3	1	595	0	339
	{			Sill below Datum
Manchester Lock (86 ft. long)	West	33	8	3	9	24	3	0	315	0	57
Canning Dock	West	45	0	6	1	26	2	4	376	0	585
Canning Half-Tide Dock	West North	45	0	6	3	28	3	2	2688	0	429
Canning Half-Tide Dock	West South	45	0	6	3	28	3	..		..
Albert Dock	North	45	0	6	4	26	0	7	3542	0	885
Albert Dock	East	45	0	6	0	26	0	..		..
Salthouse Dock	North	45	0	6	0	26	0	6	2019	0	784
Wapping Basin	North	50	0	6	0	26	0	1	3151	0	454
Wapping Basin	South	50	0	6	0	26	0	..		..
Wapping Basin	West	40	0	6	0	25	0	..		..
Wapping Dock	West	50	0	6	0	26	0	5	499	0	815
Wapping Dock	South	50	0	6	0	26	0	..		..
King’s Dock	South	42	0	5	0	26	1	7	3896	0	875
Queen’s Half-Tide Dock	West North	70	0	6	9	31	0	3	3542	0	445
Queen’s Half-Tide Dock	West South	50	0	6	9	31	0	..		..
Queen’s Dock	West	50	0	6	0	26	0	10	1564	0	1214
Queen’s Dock	South	60	0	6	6	28	9	..		..
Coburg Dock	West	70	0	6	0	30	6	8	26	0	1053
Brunswick Dock	North	60	0	6	6	27	0	12	3010	0	1086
Brunswick Dock.	West	42	0	5	6	26	0	..		..
Brunswick Half-Tide Dock	West	45	0	6	0	26	6	1	3388	0	491
Toxteth Dock	West	40	0	5	0	26	0	1	469	0	393
Harrington Dock	West	29	9	1	2	23	1	0	3740	0	315
Herculaneum Half-Tide Dock	North	80	0	8	0	31	0	3	3000	0	416
Herculaneum Half-Tide Dock	South	60	0	8	0	31	0	..		..
Total Water Area and Quay Space of the Liverpool Docks								243	1559	17	263

LIVERPOOL BASINS.
Liverpool Basins.	Width of Entrance.		Height of Piers above Datum.		Water Area.		Lineal Quayage.
	Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.	Acres	Yds.	Miles	Yds.
Canada Basin	250	0	32	0	6	4528	0	546
Sandon Basin	200	0	31	0	6	904	0	702
George’s Ferry Basin	67	0	23	8	0	1344	0	160
Chester Basin	36	0	22	2	0	2568	0	288
South Ferry Basin	60	0	30	6	0	2927	0	205
Harrington Basin	40	0	23	3	0	3917	0	308
Herculaneum Basin	40	0	26	0	0	2200	0	204
Total Water Area and Quay Space of the Liverpool Basins					15	3868	1	653
Total Water Area and Quay Space of the Liverpool Docks					243	1559	17	263
Total					259	587	18	916

AREA OF THE DOCK ESTATE.
Liverpool		1,032 Acres.
Birkenhead		506 Acres.
	Total	1,538 Acres.

BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.
Birkenhead Docks.	Position and Width of Entrance or Passage.			Sill below Datum.		Coping at Hollow Quoins abv. Dtm.		Water Area.		Lineal Quayage.
		Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.	Ac.	Yds.	Miles	Yds.
WEST FLOAT	..	..		..		..		52	19	2	210
Basin near Canada Works	West	50	0	..		..		1	2554	0	543
Basin near Canada Works	East	50	0	..		..		1	84	0	390
Duke Street Passage		100	0	7	6	26	6	..		..
EAST FLOAT	..	..		..		..		59	3786	1	1506
Corn Warehouse Dock		30	0	O.D.S.		26	0	1	453	0	555
Railway Companies’ Basin	..	..		..		..		0	606	0	113
Lock from Low-Water Basin 238 feet long		50	0	..		26	0	0	1333	0	234
Inner Sill	..	..		9	0	..		..		..
Outer Sills	..	..		12	0	..		..		..
Inner Northern Entrances	North	100	0	9	0	26	0	..		0	242
Lock 198 feet long	Middle	30	0	..		26	0	0	667	0	264
Inner Sill	..	..		9	0	..		..		..
Outer Sills	..	..		12	0	..		..		..
Lock 274 feet long	South	50	0	..		26	0	0	522	0	300
Inner Sill	..	..		9	0	..		..		..
Outer Sills	..	..		12	0	..		..		..
Alfred Dock	..	..		..		..		8	2922	0	482
Outer Northern Entrances
Lock 348 feet long	North	100	0	12	0	31	0	0	3888	0	352
Lock 198 feet long	Middle	30	0	12	0	26	0	0	667	0	377
Lock 398 feet long	South	50	0	12	0	26	0	0	2222	0	391
Egerton Dock	West	70	0	7	4	25	0	3	4011	0	754
Morpeth Dock	West	70	0	5	5	25	0	11	2404	0	1299
Railway Companies’ Basin	South	25	0	O.D.S.		26	0	0	3144	0	319
Morpeth Branch Dock	West	85	0	..		26	0	4	243	0	637
Morpeth Lock 398 feet long	River	85	0	12	0	26	0	0	3777	0	441
Total Water Area and Quay Space of the Birkenhead Docks								147	722	8	609

BIRKENHEAD BASINS.
Birkenhead Basins.	Width of Entrance.		Height of Piers above Datum.		Water Area.		Lineal Quayage.
	Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.	Acres	Yds.	Miles	Yds.
Low-Water Basin	300	0	26	0	14	0	0	1360
North Basin	500	0	31	0	4	2843		689
Total Water Area and Quay Space of the Birkenhead Basins					18	2843	1	269
Total Water Area and Quay Space of the Birkenhead Docks					147	722	8	609
Total					165	3565	9	878

TOTAL AREA OF THE LIVERPOOL AND BIRKENHEAD DOCKS AND BASINS.
	Acres	Yds.	Miles	Yds.
Total Water Area and Quay Space of the Liverpool Docks and Basins	259	587	18	916
Total Water Area and Quay Space of the Birkenhead Docks and Basins	165	3565	9	878
Total	424	4152	28	34

LEVELS OF TIDES AT LIVERPOOL. Derived from the Record of the Self-Registering Gauge at George’s Pier deduced from Ten Years’ Observations, 1854 to 1863. Datum Old Dock Sill.
	Ft.	In.
An extraordinary High Tide, as marked on the Leasowe Lighthouse	25	0	Above Datum.
An extraordinary High Tide, 20 January, 1863	23	9	”
Average High-Water Mark of Equinoctial Spring Tides.	21	1	”
Average High Water of Spring Tides, including Equinoctial Tides	19	0½	”
Average High-Water Mark of Ordinary Spring Tides, excluding the Equinoctial Tides	18	10	”
Mean High-Water Level	15	6	”
Highest High-Water Mark of Neap Tides	14	8	”
Average High-Water Mark of Ordinary Neap Tides	11	7	”
Lowest High-Water Mark of Neap Tides	8	7	”
Mean Tide Level (Ordnance Datum)	5	0	”
Highest Low-Water Mark of Neap Tides	4	1	”
Average Low-Water Mark of Ordinary Neap Tides	1	5	Below Datum.
Lowest Low-Water Mark of Neap Tides	3	10	”
Mean Low-Water Level	5	6	”
Average Low-Water Mark of Ordinary Spring Tides, exclusive of Equinoctial Tides	8	8	”
Average Low-Water Mark of Spring Tides, inclusive of Equinoctial Tides	8	10	”
Lowest Low-Water Mark of Equinoctial Spring Tides	10	4	”

LIVERPOOL GRAVING DOCKS.
Liverpool Graving Docks.		Position and Width of Entrance.			Sill below Datum.		Coping at Hollow Quoins abv. Dtm.		Length of Floor.		Total Length of Floor.
			Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.
Canada Lock as a Graving Dock			100	0	7	9	28	0	..		588	0
Huskisson Lock as a Graving Dock			80	0	6	6	38	0	..		395	0
Sandon Graving Docks,	No. 1	East	60	0	3	6	26	0	565	0
	No. 2	East	70	0	3	6	26	0	565	0
	No. 3	East	60	0	3	6	26	0	565	0
	No. 4	East	70	0	3	6	26	0	565	0
	No. 5	East	45	0	3	6	26	0	565	0
	No. 6	West	45	0	3	6	26	0	565	0
											3390	0
Clarence Graving Docks,	No. 1	N. Outer	45	0	3	0	26	6	451	0
		N. Inner	45	0	0	6	18	0	289	0
	No. 2	S. Outer	45	0	3	0	26	6	454	0
		S. Inner	32	0	0	6	18	0	286	0
					Sill above Datum.						1480	0
Canning Graving Docks,	No. 1	North	35	9	1	8½	23	3	436	0
					Sill below Datum.
	No. 2	South	35	9	0	0½	23	3½	482	0
											918	0
Queen’s Graving Docks,	No. 1	East	42	0	1	8¼	27	7¾	465	0
	No. 2	West	70	0	3	6	27	5	467	0
											932	0
Brunswick Graving Dks.	No. 1	East	41	0	2	6	26	6	460	0
	No. 2	West	41	6	2	6	26	6	462	0
											922	0
Herculaneum Grvg. Dks.	No. 1	West	60	0	4	0	26	0	758	6
	No. 2	East	60	0	4	0	26	0	753	0
											1511	6
Total Length of Floor of the Liverpool Graving Docks											10136	6

BIRKENHEAD GRAVING DOCKS.
Birkenhead Graving Docks.		Position and Width of Entrance.			Sill under Datum.		Coping at Hollow Quoins abv. Dtm.		Length of Floor.		Total Length of Floor.
			Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.
Morpeth Lock as a Graving Dock			85	0	12	0	26	0	..		468	0
West Float	No. 2	East	50	0	7	9	25	0	750	0	..
	No. 3	West	85	0	7	9	25	0	750	0	1500	0
Total Length of Floor of the Birkenhead Graving Docks											1968	0
Total Length of Floor of the Liverpool Graving Docks											10136	6
Total											12104	6

LIVERPOOL GRIDIRONS.
Gridirons.	Breadth of Gridiron.		Length.
	Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.
Clarence Graving Dock Basin—The Blocks are laid 2 feet 2 inches below the Datum at the South end of the Gridiron, and 3 inches below at the North end	25	6	313	6
King’s Pier—The Blocks are laid at the level of the Datum	26	0	509	0
Total Length of the Liverpool Gridirons			822	6

LANDING STAGES.
Liverpool.—	Prince’s Stage	1002 6 long;	80 wide,	4 Bridges from the shore.
	George’s Stage	505 0 long;	80 wide,	2 Bridges from the shore.
Birkenhead.—	Low Water }	1040 0 long;	50 & 35 wide,	2 Bridges from the shore.
	Basin Stage }
	Woodside Stage	800 0 long;	80 wide,	2 Bridges from the shore.

Note.—The South end of the Woodside Stage, for a length of 300 feet, including one of the Bridges, is appropriated to the use of the Birkenhead Commissioners. The 500 feet Northwards, and the other Bridge, is under the superintendence of the Dock Board. In connection with this stage there is a Floating Bridge, 678 feet in length by 30 feet in width, by means of which an easy incline for Carriage Traffic is maintained at all times of the Tide.

Docks belonging to the Corporation of Liverpool and Others.		Width of Entrance.			Level of Sill.				Level of Coping above Datum.		Water Area.
					Above Datum.		Below Datum.
			Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.	Ft.	In.	Ac.	Yds.
The Corporation of Liverpool.
	The River Craft Dock	Outer	30	0	0	3	..		25	4	1	3416
	Lock, and Eagle Basin	Inner	30	0	1	3	..		25	10	..
Ditto	Anderton Basin	..	40	0	..		..		..		0	1198
The Trustees of the late Duke of Bridgewater.
	Duke’s Dock	Outer	40	0	..		4	6	25	6	2	1336
		Middle	28	10	0	6	..		22	9	..
		Inner	40	0	..		6	0	25	0	..
Ditto	Egerton Dock	..	20	0	0	6	..		23	0	0	2700
The London & North-Western Railway Company.
	Garston Dock	North	20	0	..		6	0	26	0	6	1200
		South	50	0	..		..		..		..
											11	170

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is in communication with Stanley Dock through Four Locks and Five intermediate Basins. The Locks are each 81 feet long by 16 feet 6 inches wide, and the Total Rise is 46 feet 6 inches. The Level of the Water in the Canal is 58 feet above the Datum.

[APPENDIX No. 8, Vol. ii. p. 448.]

Extracts from the Ship’s Charter party, which requires the attention of the Commanders and Officers in the Maritime Service of the East India Company.

58. The commander to give notice to the secretary, in writing, when the ship arrives at Gravesend, outward bound.

59. The commander also to give notice to the secretary at the expiration of the time limited for the stay of the ship at Gravesend, or in the Hope, outward bound.

60. The Company are to have liberty to survey the ship at any time, and to lay by for their surveyors, who are to be civilly treated, and to be provided with reasonable and convenient food and lodging.

61. The ship not carrying the full number of guns, the commander and owners to forfeit for each gun wanting, 40l., and not to be disposed of without leave of the Company’s servants to whom the ship is consigned. The owners and commander to forfeit 100l. for every gun sold, and the commander rendered incapable of continuing in the service.

62. The commander or master to obey the Company’s orders during the voyage, and also committees appointed by them, or their governors, president, agents, chief factors, or assigns.

63. The master or officers displaced (or by decease), the next in rank to succeed him.

64. The command, or any office in the ship, not to be bought, or sold.

65. An order of encouragement, to the following effect, to be put up in the ship, and to be continued during the voyage.

66. “The Court of Directors of the United Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East Indies, being willing to encourage the mariners of all their ships to be just to the said Company, and careful of their effects and trade, and observant of all injuries done or doing thereto, as also to animate them to defend their said ships and their estates on board, in case they should be assaulted by any enemy, do hereby declare that they will allow and pay the following rewards, at the return of the ship from the East Indies, into the River Thames, and finishing this present voyage; that is to say, to every seaman that shall prevent any wilful and malicious damage to any part of the said Company’s effects, or shall save the same from being lost, a reward suitable to their merit therein. To the widow, children, father or mother of every seaman that shall lose his life in the defence of the ship, as aforesaid, thirty pounds. To every seaman that shall lose a leg or arm, or both, in such defence, thirty pounds. To every seaman that shall receive any other wound, such sum of money as the said Court of Directors shall think fit, upon producing a certificate from their commander or superior officer, touching their merits. That every seaman so wounded in defence of the ship shall be cured of his wounds at the charge of the said Company and owners.”

67. The ship to touch at such places as shall be ordered; receive in and deliver out any goods.

68. The ship not to touch at any place, but what ordered to touch at; or to take any foreign coin or bullion, goods or provisions, at any place short of her consigned port, without an especial licence from the Court of Directors. Penalty, the forfeiture of the goods, and 100l. per day for detention of the ship.

69. The cargo to be stowed in the best manner, to prevent damage; and disposed of in the ship in such manner and in such places as will not lumber or incommode her working, or render her incapable of defence.

70. No goods are to be shot loose in the hold, nor any luggs to be cut off the bales, under penalty of the Company paying but half the freight of goods thus damaged; and bales not to be opened without giving notice, under penalty of 10l.; for pepper shot loose between decks, the freight will not be paid for.

71. The ship to make no deviation, and the whole cargo to be delivered into the Company’s warehouses.

72. The ship, if she touch at the island of Ascension or St. Helena, must not sail without leave of the governor and council. Penalty, 200l.

73. The ship not to touch at Barbadoes, or any port in America, or any of the Western Islands, or Plymouth, or put into any port of England or Ireland, without orders (unavoidable dangers of the sea excepted). Penalty, 500l.

74. The commander, chief and second mates to keep journals of the ship’s daily proceedings, from her first taking in cargo in the River Thames to her return and discharge of her cargo in England, and of the wind and weather, and all remarkable transactions, accidents, and occurrences during the whole voyage; also of everything received into and delivered from the ship; and are afterwards to be delivered to the Company on oath, if required.

75. No unlicensed goods to be carried in the ship; or to take any passengers without leave.

76. The ship to have her complement of men during the voyage.

77. That it shall not be lawful for the master of the ship, or any other officer of the ship, to furnish any of the seamen with money, liquor, provisions beyond the value of one-third of what the wages of such seaman shall amount to at the time of furnishing the same.

78. The paymaster to be appointed by the Company, and owners to pay seamen’s wives, etc., one month’s wages in six.

79. The commander to have the use of the great cabin, unless for the use of the Company’s servants.

80. That the part-owners or master do send in the ship the value of 500l. in foreign coins or bullion (the same to be weighed in and passed through the Company’s Bullion Office), to be made use of for extraordinary expenses during the voyage. Penalty, 20l. per cent.

81. The commander to be supplied with 200l. per month, by way of impress or provisions, while in India or China.

82. The Company to pay for the hire of Lascars, in the room of seamen employed in India.

[APPENDIX No. 9. Vol. ii. p. 458.]

Ships belonging to or in the service of the East India Company burnt, lost, taken, or otherwise destroyed, from the year 1700 to the year 1819.

Date.	Ships’ Names.	Tons.	By what Means.
1702	Queen	320	Taken.
1703	Neptune	275	Lost.
—	Dover	180	Taken.
1704	Hester	350	Lost.
—	Albemarle	320	Lost.
1705	Edward and Dudley	300	Taken.
—	Bombay	300	Blown up.
1707	Herbert	210	Taken.
—	Dispatch	110	Blown up.
1708	Godolphin	280	Lost.
—	New George	400	Taken.
1709	Sherborne	400	Lost.
1709	Dutchess	430	Taken.
—	Phɶnix	400	Lost.
1710	Jane	180	Taken.
1711	Blenheim	250	Burnt.
1715	Catherine	350	Lost.
1716	Success	250	Lost.
1718	Vansittart	480	Lost.
1719	St. George	480	Lost.
—	King George	450	Lost.
—	Cassandria	380	Taken.
—	Chandos	480	Lost.
1720	Addison	400	Lost.
—	Dartmouth	400	Lost.
1721	Nightingale	480	Lost.
1729	Berrington	440	Lost.
1731	Eyles	400	Lost.
1733	Oakham	480	Burnt.
1734	Derby	480	Taken.
1735	Pelham	480	Lost.
—	Compton	480	Burnt.
1736	Deckar	490	Lost.
—	Sussex	490	Lost.
—	Newcastle	495	Lost.
—	Devonshire	495	Lost.
1737	Resolution	495	Lost.
—	Anglesea	490	Lost.
1738	Normanton	495	Lost.
1741	Grantham	495	Lost.
1742	Princess Louisa	498	Lost.
1743	Nottingham	498	Lost.
—	Northampton	498	Lost.
1744	Prince of Orange	495	Lost.
—	Princess Mary	498	Taken.
1745	Princess Amelia	498	Taken.
1746	Heathcote	498	Lost.
—	Winchelsea	498	Lost.
—	Anson	499	Taken.
1747	Lincoln	498	Lost.
—	Dolphin	370	Lost.
1749	Duke of Cumberland	499	Lost.
—	Lynn	499	Lost.
1754	Doddington	499	Lost.
1756	Grantham	499	Taken.
—	York	499	Lost.
1756	Expedition	350	Taken.
1759	Streatham	499	Lost.
1760	Denham	499	Taken.
1761	Griffin	499	Lost.
1762	Walpole	499	Taken.
1763	Elizabeth	499	Burnt.
1764	Earl of Holderness	499	Lost.
—	Ajax	499	Lost.
—	Earl Temple	499	Lost.
—	Winchelsea	499	Lost.
1765	Albion	499	Lost.
1766	Falmouth	499	Lost.
1767	Lord Clive	499	Lost.
1768	Earl of Chatham	499	Lost.
1769	Lord Holland	499	Lost.
1771	Verelet	499	Lost.
1772	Duke of Albany	499	Lost.
1773	Lord Mansfield	499	Lost.
—	Royal Captain	499	Lost.
1774	Huntingdon	499	Lost.
1777	Marquis of Rockingham	758	Lost.
1778	Colebrooke	723	Lost.
—	London	723	Lost.
1779	Valentine	676	Lost.
—	Osterley	758	Taken.
—	Stafford	804	Lost.
1780	Royal George	758	} Taken by the combined Fleets of France and Spain, August 9th, 1780.
—	Hillsborough	723	}
—	Mountstuart	758	}
—	Gatton	758	}
—	Godfrey	716	}
1781	General Barker	758	Lost.
1782	Earl Dartmouth	758	Lost.
—	Grosvenor	729	Lost.
—	Fortitude	758	Taken.
—	Earl of Hertford	758	Lost.
—	Brilliant	703	Lost.
1783	Blandford	606	Taken.
—	Hitchinbrooke	528	Lost.
—	Duke of Athol	755	Burnt.
—	Fairford	755	Burnt.
—	Duke of Kingston	723	Burnt.
1784	Major	755	Burnt.
1785	Montague	755	Blown up.
1786	Halsewell	758	Lost.
1787	Hartwell	937	Lost.
—	Mars	696	Lost.
1789	Vansittart	828	Lost.
1791	Foulis	765	Never heard of.
1792	Winterton	771	Lost.
1793	Princess Royal	805	Taken.
1794	Pigot	765	Taken.
1796	Triton	800	Taken.
—	Dutton	761	} Lost on the West India Expedition.
—	Ganges	784	}
—	Middlesex	852	}
—	Pousborne	804	}
1797	Ocean	1189	Lost.
—	Martha	406	Lost.
1798	Princess Amelia	808	Burnt.
—	Raymond	793	Taken.
—	Woodcot	802	Taken.
—	Henry Addington	1200	Lost.
1799	Earl Fitzwilliam	803	Burnt.
—	Osterley	755	Taken and retaken.
1800	Queen	801	Burnt.
—	Kent	820	Taken.
—	Earl Talbot	1200	Foundered.
1803	Culland’s Grove	576	Taken.
—	Lord Nelson	820	Taken and retaken.
—	Hindostan	1248	Lost.
—	Prince of Wales	820	Foundered.
—	Admiral Aplin	558	Taken.
—	Comet	529	Taken.
1804	Princess Charlotte	610	Taken.
—	Brunswick	1200	Taken.
1805	Earl of Abergavenny	1200	Lost.
—	Warren Hastings	1200	Taken and retaken.
—	Ganges	1200	Lost.
—	Britannia	770	Lost.
1806	Lady Burges	820	Lost.
—	Fame	492	Taken.
—	Shelton Castle	584	Foundered.
1808	Lord Nelson	818	}
—	Glory	549	} Foundered.
—	Experiment	502	}
—	Walpole	820	Lost.
—	Travers	577	Lost.
1809	Britannia	1200	Lost.
—	Admiral Gardner	813	Lost.
—	Calcutta	819	} Foundered.
—	Jane, Duchess of Gordon	820	}
—	Bengal	818	}
—	Lady Jane Dundas.	820	}
1809	Europe	820	} Taken and retaken.
—	Streatham	819	}
—	Asia	820	Lost.
—	Windham	820	Taken and retaken.
—	United Kingdom	820	} Taken.
—	Charlton	818	}
—	True Briton	1198	Foundered.
1810	Earl Camden	1200	Burnt.
—	Ocean	1200	Foundered.
—	Ceylon	818	Taken and retaken.
1812	Harriet	549	Burnt.
1813	Euphrates	596	Lost.
—	Marquis Wellesley	820	Lost.
—	Earl Howe	876	Lost.
—	William Pitt	572	Foundered.
1814	Devonshire	820	Lost.
1815	Bengal	950	Burnt.
1817	Elphinstone	1200	Burnt.
1818	Cabalva	1200	Lost.

[APPENDIX No. 10. Vol. ii. p. 462.]

A list of Ships belonging to or chartered by the East India Company, in 1820, where built, tonnage, and number of guns and men.

Ship’s Name.	Where and when built.		Tonnage.	Guns.	Men.
Apollo	Paul	1812	693	12	65
Asia	Barnard’s	1811	1012	26	115
Astell	Mestaer’s	1810	871	26	100
Atlas	Paul	1812	1291	26	130
Bombay	Bombay	1809	1246	26	130
Bridgewater	Brent’s	1812	1339	26	130
Buckinghamshire	Bombay	1816	1369	26	130
Canning	Wigram’s	1817	1326	26	130
Carnatic	Perry’s	1808	863	26	102
Castle Huntly	Bengal	1812	1274	26	130
Charles Grant	Bombay	1810	1252	26	130
Cornwall	Bengal	1811	798	12	75
Dorsetshire	Barnard’s	1799	1268	16	110
Duke of York	Wigram’s	1817	1327	26	130
Dunira	Barnard’s	1817	1325	26	130
Earl of Balcarras	Bombay	1815	1417	26	130
Essex	Perry’s	1812	1352	26	130
General Harris	Brent’s	1812	1339	26	130
General Hewitt	Bengal	1811	894	26	110
General Kyd	Bengal	1813	1327	26	130
Herefordshire	Bombay	1813	1342	26	130
Inglis	Penang	1811	1321	26	130
Kellie Castle	Wigram’s	1818	1350	26	130
Lady Campbell	River	1816	684	12	65
Lady Melville	Wigram’s	1813	1321	26	130
Larkins	India	1807	676	12	60
London	Pitcher’s	1817	1352	26	130
Lord Castlereagh	Randall’s	1802	847	26	110
Lowther Castle	Pitcher’s	1811	1507	26	130
Marchioness of Ely	Well’s	1802	1016	26	115
Marquis Camden	Pitcher’s	1812	1329	26	130
Marquis of Ely	Perry’s	1801	1316	12	115
Marquis of Huntly	Brent’s	1811	1348	26	130
Marquis of Wellington	Barnard’s	1812	1033	26	115
Matilda	India	1803	774	12	75
Minerva	Bombay	1813	976	26	115
Moffatt	India	1804	846	12	75
Orwell	Ipswich	1817	1335	26	130
Prince Regent	Barnard’s	1811	1036	26	115
Perseverance	Pitcher’s	1801	1335	26	130
Phɶnix	Barnard’s	1814	887	26	102
Princess Amelia	Barnard’s	1808	1319	26	130
Princess Charlotte of Wales	Dudman’s	1812	1016	26	115
Regent	Bengal	1811	910	12	90
Rose	Well’s	1811	1024	26	115
Streatham	Dudman’s	1804	861	26	110
Scaleby Castle	India	1798	1237	26	130
Thames	Barnard’s	1819	1360	26	130
Thomas Coutts	Wigram’s	1817	1334	26	130
Thomas Grenville	Bombay	1809	923	26	107
Vansittart	Bengal	1813	1313	26	130
Warren Hastings (Rawes)	Perry’s	1793	1356	26	130
Warren Hastings | (Larkins)	Barnard’s	1802	1004	26	120
Waterloo	Wigram’s	1816	1325	26	130
Winchelsea	River	1803	1310	12	115
Windsor	Barnard’s	1818	1332	26	130
William Pitt	Barnard’s	1804	857	26	110

[APPENDIX No. 11, Vol. ii. p. 464.]

Historical Abstract of Public Duties performed by the East India Company’s Maritime Service.

In 1601 the first fleet, under Lancaster, took possession of St. Helena, entered into a treaty with the King of Acheen, settled a factory at Bantam, and captured a valuable carrack of nine hundred tons burthen.

During 1609 the Company’s ship Solomon engaged and defeated several Portuguese ships, and in 1611 their fleet, under command of Captain Saris, proceeded to Japan, and settled a Company’s factory at Firando; while in this year a large ship belonging to the Company, assisted by a pinnace, maintained five several engagements with a squadron of Portuguese, and gained a complete victory over forces much superior.

In 1612 the Company’s fleet, under the command of Captain Thomas Best, engaged the Portuguese fleet, consisting of four galleys and twenty-six frigates, in two separate actions, when the Portuguese were defeated with great loss.

In 1613 the Company’s fleet, under the command of Captain (General) Downton, attacked and defeated the Portuguese fleet near Surat, sinking and burning most of the enemy’s ships; and in 1616 their fleet, under Captain Pring, took a valuable Portuguese frigate, and defeated the Dutch fleet in a severe action at Batavia.

1619. A great naval action between four Company’s ships, under the command of Captain Shilling (who was killed), and a Portuguese fleet, in which the Company’s ships were victorious. This fleet also took possession of Saldanha Bay.

1620. Four of the Company’s ships defeated the Portuguese fleet and captured several junks belonging to the Mogul.

1622. Ormuz taken by the Company’s fleet, in concert with the King of Persia’s forces. By this capture the first and most valuable commercial treaty with that monarch was obtained.

1623. In the twenty-first year of the reign of James I. he authorized the Company to exercise martial law in their ships at sea.

1630. A great naval battle near Surat, in which the Company’s fleet was victorious over the Portuguese.

1635. The Company’s fleet, under Sir Thomas Grantham, recapture Bombay.

The Company’s fleet captured forty sail of Mogul ships at Ballasore.

1662. At the expiration of more than half a century after the commencement of the trade to India, men-of-war first sent out.

1690. The Company’s ship Herbert fought a desperate action at Johanna against four ships of superior force, and beat them off, but in the moment of victory she unfortunately took fire and blew up.

1703. The Company’s ships Chambers and Canterbury, in the Straits of Malacca, engaged in the night a French sixty-four and a frigate. The Canterbury was taken, but the Chambers gallantly renewed the action at daylight, and having crippled her opponents, escaped. The following is an extract from the commander’s log: “To prevent all thought among my men of surrendering ye ship, and make ym desperate, I nailed the ensigne to the staff from head to foot, stapled and fore-cockt the ensigne staff fast up. I resolved to part with ship and life together.”

1746. A French squadron, consisting of L’Achille, sixty-four, and two frigates, appeared off St. Helena to intercept the homeward-bound fleet. An Indiaman’s long-boat was fitted out under the command of a midshipman, who succeeded in gaining the weather-gage of the enemy’s squadron unperceived, and cruised for the purpose of warning the expected fleet. Six of the Company’s ships fell in with the squadron, and maintained a running fight for several days, till they anchored in All Saints’ Bay, where they were blockaded by L’Achille and her consorts, notwithstanding which, they ultimately escaped and reached England in safety.

1757. The Company’s ships Suffolk, Houghton, and Godolphin fell in with two French frigates off the Cape, and after a smart action beat them off. The Court of Directors highly commended the conduct of the commanders, officers, and crews upon this occasion, and each ship received a gratuity of 2,000l. These ships were commanded by Captain Wilson, who was made commander of all the Company’s ships, and appointed to the William Pitt, in which ship he discovered Pitt’s Straits, 1759, and “pointed out to admiring nations a new track to China, founded on philosophic principles.”

1758. At the recapture of Fort William many of the Company’s ships were employed, and in some instances the crews were engaged on shore.

1759. When the Dutch, with four frigates of thirty-six guns each, two frigates of twenty-six guns each, and another ship mounting sixteen guns, with crews of fifteen hundred men on board, attempted to capture the British possessions of Bengal, they were driven back, and captured by the Company’s ships Calcutta, Duke of Dorset, and Hardwicke.

In the same year the Company’s ship Hardwicke fought an action with a French frigate.

1760. The Company’s ships Royal George and Oxford intercepted and captured three Dutch ships and three sloops off Culpec. In 1761 the Company’s ship Shaftesbury stood into Madras Roads, in defiance of two French ships there blockading the town, who attacked her, but, succeeding in beating them off, she then embarked a detachment of troops, and proceeded to St. Thomas, where she engaged and beat off a French frigate. The captain, officers, and crew of the Shaftesbury were warmly commended for their gallant conduct on this occasion, and received a reward of 2,000l.

The Company’s ship Winchelsea fought a French frigate single handed and beat her off. The Court in this case also distributed the sum of 2,000l. among the crew for their gallant conduct.

1779. The Company’s ship Bridgewater fought an American privateer of superior force, and beat her off, for which the crew received a reward of 2,000l. from the Court of Directors.

1782. The Company’s ships, under Commodore Johnstone, fought a gallant action at Port Praya, in which the enemy were defeated.

1786. The Princess Royal, Captain Horncastle, fought an action in the Straits of Malacca.

1793. The Company’s ships Triton, Royal Charlotte, and Warley, in company with H.M.S. Minerva, were employed in the blockade of Pondicherry, and assisted at the capture of that place.

1794. The Company’s ship Pigott fought a gallant action at Bencoolen with three French frigates. In this year, there not being a single English man-of-war in the Indian Seas, or to the eastward of the Cape, and while the port of Calcutta was blockaded, and the whole trade of India a prey to large and well-appointed privateers, the Company’s ships William Pitt, Britannia, and Houghton, under Commodore Mitchell (who was knighted for his services on this occasion), cruised in the Indian seas as men-of-war for the protection of commerce. They captured two large privateers, and defeated a French squadron of two frigates, a brig of war, and an armed ship, the Princess Royal.

When, in 1795, the great expedition was ordered for the West Indies, application was made to the Company for assistance, and fourteen of the Company’s ships were fitted out immediately, and ten others sold to Government and equipped as line-of-battle ships.

In the same year an expedition was fitted out at St. Helena, consisting of the Company’s ships Goddard, Mauship, Hawkesbury, Airly Castle, Asia, Essex, and Busbridge; which proceeded to cruise to windward of the island, where they intercepted and captured a valuable fleet of nine Dutch Indiamen. This undertaking involved in its consequences the annihilation of the Dutch East India Company.

The Company’s ships Bombay Castle, Exeter, and Brunswick were fitted out as men-of-war at Bombay, and assisted in taking the Cape of Good Hope.

1797. When at the mutiny of the Nore, the Court of Directors called upon their officers to serve on board his Majesty’s ships for the defence of the river, the request was promptly and zealously answered by the maritime service at large.

Commodore Farquharson, of the Company’s service, with a fleet of their ships, fell in with the French Admiral De Sercey and a powerful squadron of men-of-war; the Indiamen immediately formed the line of battle, and gave chase to the enemy, who crowded all sail, and was soon out of sight. This bold manɶuvre saved a valuable fleet to the Company and to the nation.

In 1797, on the expedition against Manilla, several of the Company’s ships were fitted out to act as men-of-war, and in 1798 the Hughes was equipped at Bombay to protect the trade on the Malabar Coast. That year the Company’s ships Royal Charlotte, Cuffnells, Phɶnix, and Alligator assisted H.M. ships La Pomone, Argo, and Cormorant in convoying a large fleet of merchantmen and transports to Lisbon. On the 25th of September they fell in with a French fleet of nine sail, consisting of one eighty-gun ship and eight frigates. The signal was made for the Company’s ships to form the line with those of his Majesty’s, and the convoy were ordered to push for Lisbon. This manɶuvre, and the warlike appearance of the Indiamen, deterred the French admiral from attacking them, so that the whole fleet reached Lisbon in safety.

1799. The Company’s ships Earl Howe and Princess Charlotte received instructions from H.M.S. Victorious to cruise between the Palmyra Rocks and Pigeon Island. The commander and officers having received commissions from Government, they were occupied in this service until the close of 1800.

1800. The French frigate Melée was taken single-handed by the Company’s ship Exeter, Captain Meriton. In the same year a gallant defence was made by the Company’s ship Kent against the Confiance of twenty-six guns, commanded by the celebrated Surcoufe, and though the Kent was captured, it was only after having lost her commander and twenty-two men killed and thirty-four wounded; the action lasted nearly two hours.

On the 27th of June the Company’s ship Arniston, Captain Campbell Majoribanks, having just anchored at Bencoolen, was attacked by a French sloop of war, supposed to be the Confiance, of twenty-six guns. The Arniston promptly cut her cable, gave chase, and fired several broadsides into her: but, outsailing the Arniston, by beating to windward, she escaped after a chase of several hours.

That year the Hughes, cruising in the Bay of Bengal for the protection of trade, engaged a French ship, which also escaped from superiority of sailing, after having thrown her guns overboard.

In 1801 the Company’s ship Phɶnix, Captain Moffat, captured a French privateer single-handed, and the Company’s ship Admiral Gardner, Captain Saltwell, beat off the Bellona, French frigate, single-handed.

1803. The Company’s homeward-bound China fleet (with a number of country ships and whalers under protection), having no men-of-war in company, fell in with the French Admiral Linois, in the Marengo, eighty-four-gun ship, Semillante, forty guns, Belle Poule, forty guns, Corvette, twenty-eight guns, and a brig of eighteen guns. The enemy being to windward, Commodore Dance, at the suggestion of Captain Timins, made the general signal to tack. The Indiamen then stood towards the French fleet, engaged, defeated, and chased them out of sight. The details of this extraordinary victory of English merchant ships over French men-of-war are familiar to the readers of naval history. The fleet, consisting of China ships, was valued at six millions, and the revenue on the tea alone amounted to upwards of three millions sterling. Commodore Dance was knighted, and various rewards were distributed among the captains, officers, and seamen. In that year the Company’s ships Lord Castlereagh and Lady Castlereagh were fitted out and cruised in the Bay of Bengal for the protection of trade.

In that year also the Company’s ship Preston acted as guard-ship at Kedjaree.

During 1804 the Hughes sailed from Bombay by request of the Government, cruising in company with H.M.S. Concord to intercept French frigates expected off the coast.

In 1805 the Company’s ships Camden and Wexford were fitted out in Bombay Harbour, and cruised in the Indian seas for the protection of trade, whilst the Cumberland, Captain Farrer, under convoy of Sir Thomas Troubridge, received and returned several broadsides, within pistol-shot, from the French line-of-battle ship Marengo, and from a large frigate, her consort.

In 1806 the Company’s ship Warren Hastings fought a most gallant action against the French frigate Piedmontese, and although at last captured, the enemy hauled off several times during the action, which lasted for four hours.

In 1810 the Company’s ships and seamen were employed at the taking of the Isle of France; and in 1812 the Company’s ship Astell was gallantly defended against a very superior force, and escaped, in consequence of the crippled state of her opponents.

[APPENDIX No. 12, Vol. ii. p. 467.]

List of Wages of the East India Company’s Ships.

		By the Month.
		£	s.	d.
1	Commander	10	0	0
1	Chief Mate	5	0	0
1	Second Mate	4	0	0
1	Third Mate	3	10	0
1	Fourth Mate	2	10	0
1	Fifth Mate	2	0	0
1	Sixth Mate	1	15	0
1	Surgeon	5	0	0
1	Purser	2	0	0
1	Boatswain	3	5	0
1	Gunner	3	5	0
1	Master-at-Arms	2	15	0
1	Carpenter	4	0	0
1	Midshipman and Coxswain	1	15	0
4	Midshipmen, each	1	15	0
1	Surgeon’s Mate	3	10	0
1	Caulker	3	10	0
1	Cooper	2	15	0
1	Captain’s Cook	3	5	0
1	Ship’s Cook	2	0	0
1	Captain’s Steward	1	15	0
1	Ship’s Steward	2	0	0
2	Boatswain’s Mates, each	2	0	0
2	Gunner’s Mates, each	2	0	0
1	Carpenter’s First Mate	3	0	0
1	Carpenter’s Second Mate	2	10	0
1	Caulker’s Mate	2	10	0
1	Cooper’s Mate	2	0	0
6	Quartermasters, each	2	0	0
1	Sail-maker	2	5	0
1	Armourer	2	5	0
1	Butcher	1	15	0
1	Baker	1	15	0
1	Poulterer	1	15	0
2	Commander’s Servants, each	1	3	0
1	Chief Mate’s Servants, each	1	0	0
1	Second Mate’s Servants, each	0	18	0
1	Surgeon’s Servants, each	0	15	0
1	Boatswain’s Servants, each	0	15	0
1	Gunner’s Servants, each	0	15	0
1	Carpenter’s Servants, each	0	15	0
50	Foremast Men, each	1	15	0
Total 102

[APPENDIX No. 13. Vol. ii. p. 471.]

Copy of the Victualling Bill of the East India Company’s Ships.

"By whose order the under-mentioned are to be received on board.	For Regular Ships.	1200 tons, 950 tons, 800 tons ships.
Company’s Husbandor Assistant.	Ale, Beer, Wine, orother liquors, in casksor bottles, for the use of the Commander’s table,allowing 252 gallons, or86 doz. quart bottles perton.	13 tons, 13 tons, 13 tons.
Sealers at the India Wharf.	*Beef, Pork, Bacon,Suet, and Tongues.	40 tons, 35 tons, 25 tons.
Ship’s Husband.	Beer, strong and small,in casks (not bottles).	28 tons, 28 tons, 28 tons.
Sealers at the India Wharf.	*Bread.	350 cwt., 310 cwt., 270 cwt.
Ship’s Husband.	Butter.	30 firkins, 30 firkins, 30 firkins.
	Brandy, or other spirits, for the ship’s company.	10 punches, 9 punches, 8 punches.
	Billet Wood.	25,000, 25,000, 25,000.
	Brimstone.	2 cwt., 2 cwt., 2 cwt.
	Coals.	20 chaldron, 20 chaldron, 15 chaldron.
	Candles.	50 dozen, 50 dozen, 50 dozen.
	Cheese.	50 cwt., 50 cwt., 50 cwt.
Sealers at the India Wharf.	*Chirurgery and Drugs.	65l. value, 55l. value, 50l. value.
Ship’s Husband.	Canvass.	30 bolts, 25 bolts, 20 bolts.
Sealers at the India Wharf.	Confectionery.	6 cases, 6 cases, 6 cases.
	*Essence of Malt.	260 lbs., 230 lbs., 200 lbs.
	*Essence of Spruce.	260 lbs., 230 lbs., 200 lbs.
	*Flour.	134 cwt., 100 cwt., 88 cwt.
Ship’s Husband.	Fish.	21 cwt., 18 cwt., 16 cwt.
Sealers at the India Wharf.	Grocery.	80 cwt., 70 cwt., 50 cwt.
Ship’s Husband.	*Gunpowder.	63 barrels, 60 barrels, 50 barrels.
	*Iron Shot.	6 tons, 7 tons, 4 tons.
Company’s Husband, or Assistant Ship’s Husband.	Iron for store.	6 tons, 4 tons, 4 tons.
Sealers at the India Wharf.	*Lime or Lemon Juice.	130 gallons, 115 gallons, 100 gallons.
	Lead Shot of sorts.	5 cwt., 5 cwt., 5 cwt.
	*Mustard Seed.	10 bushels, 10 bushels, 10 bushels.
	Oatmeal.	50 bushels, 50 bushels, 50 bushels.
	Oil, Sweet and Lamp.	300 gallons, 300 gallons, 300 gallons.
	Oats, Barley, and Bran.	500 bushels, 500 bushels, 500 bushels.
	Oranges and Lemons.	6 chests, 6 chests, 6 chests.
	Oilman’s Stores.	8 cases, 8 cases, 8 cases.
	*Pease.	200 bushels, 190 bushels, 180 bushels.
Ship’s Husband.	Pitch.	20 barrels, 20 barrels, 20 barrels.
	Potatoes.	15 tons, 15 tons, 10 tons.
	Red and White Herrings and Salmon.	5 barrels, 5 barrels, 5 barrels.
	Rosin.	6 cwt., 6 cwt., 6 cwt.
	Spare Cordage.	7 tons, 5 tons, 5 tons.
Sealers at the India Wharf.	Sheet Lead for store.	2 tons, 2 tons, 2 tons.
Ship’s Husband.	Salt, White and Bay.	40 bushels, 40 bushels, 40 bushels.
Sealers at the India Wharf.	Slops.	2 chests, 2 chests, 2 chests.
	Tobacco.	30 cwt., 25 cwt., 20 cwt.
Ship’s Husband.	Tar.	20 barrels, 20 barrels, 20 barrels.
	Turpentine.	3 barrels, 3 barrels, 3 barrels.
	*Vinegar.	11 hds., 11 hds., 9 hds.
	*Water.	70 tons, 60 tons, 50 tons.

Boatswain’s, Gunner’s, and Carpenter’s stores, as usual, that are not particularly before mentioned, seeing them to be such.

[APPENDIX No. 14, Vol. ii. p. 483.]

A List of the Large Ships belonging to the East India Company’s Service in 1831, and how disposed of, with the prices realised for them.

Sum.	Ships’ Names.	By whom purchased.	Date.
£8,000	Abercrombie Robinson	Messrs. Palmer, McKilloh and Co.	Oct. 9, 1834.
6,500	Asia	Thomas Heath, Esq.	Sept. 20, 1831.
4,100	Atlas, broke up	Charles Carter, Esq.	May 20, 1831.
..	Berwickshire, at sea	..	..
..	Bombay, at sea	..	..
10,550	Buckinghamshire	Messrs. Thacker and Mangles	June 25, 1834.
5,750	Canning, broke up	Joseph Somes, Esq.	May 7, 1834.
10,000	Castle Huntly	Bought in by Owners	Decr. 11, 1834.
8,500	Charles Grant	Messrs. Hyde and Lennox	Feby. 15, 1834.
..	Duchess of Athol	..	..
..	Duchess of Sussex	..	..
..	Dunira, to be broken up.	..	..
10,700	Earl of Balcarras	Thomas A. Shuter, Esq.	Sept. 17, 1834.
7,500	Edinburgh	James Gardner, Esq.	July 2, 1834.
6,000	Farquharson, laid up.	Joseph Somes, Esq.	May 23, 1834.
6,600	George the Fourth, outward bound	John Nicholson, Esq.	May 28, 1834.
6,600	General Harris, broke up	Joseph Christall, Esq.	Oct. 29, 1831.
6,250	General Hewett	William Tindall, Esq.	Sept. 22, 1830.
9,100	General Kyd	John Pirie, Esq.	Oct. 8, 1834.
..	Herefordshire	..	..
9,150 8,000	Inglis	Bought in by Owners Bought in by Capt. J. C. Lochner.	Oct. 30, 1834. Nov. 15, 1834.
5,900	Kellie Castle	Capt. R. Pattallo	Nov. 1834.
10,000	Lady Melville	John Campbell, Esq.	Aug. 1832.
8,650 5,300	Lowther Castle, to be broken up	Joseph Somes, Esq.	Sept. 24, 1830. June 18, 1834.
5,900	London, broke up	Thomas Ward, Esq.	May 7, 1834.
7,500	Lord Lowther	Capt. A. Grant	July 16, 1834.
..	Marquis of Camden, at sea	..	..
..	Marquis of Huntly, to be broken up	..	..
7,000	Marquis of Wellington	Don Pedro	Sept. 11, 1832.
9,400 2,400	Minerva, for Captain’s stores at sea	Henry Templer, Esq.	Aug. 20, 1831.
6,600	Orwell, at sea	Messrs. Isacke and Co.	Jany. 21, 1834.
6,500	Prince Regent, at sea	Messrs. Wigrams and Green	Sept. 28, 1830.
3,000	Princess Charlotte of Wales, broke up	J. Childers, Esq.	April 20, 1831.
..	Reliance	..	..
4,500	Rose	Bought in by Owners	Oct. 16, 1834.
6,900	Scaleby Castle.	Henry Templer, Esq.	Aug. 6, 1834.
13,500	Scaleby Castle.	Bought by Jas. Walkingshaw, Esq., with stores, and ready for sea	Oct. 11, 1834.
..	Sir David Scott	..	..
10,700	Thames	John R. Pidding, Esq.	Aug. 1832.
3,550	Thames, 40/64th of ship	James Christall, Esq.	Sept. 10, 1834.
..	Thomas Coutts, outward bound	..	..
..	Vansittart	..	..
6,650	Thomas Grenville, laid up	Messrs. Ward and Somes	July 2, 1834.
..	Warren Hastings	..	..
..	Waterloo, materials sold, and began breaking up,fetched about £7,200.	At Public Sale	June 11, 1834.
..	William Fairlie	..	..
..	Winchelsea, broke up	..	1833.
7,950	Windsor	William Dallas, Esq.	Nov. 13, 1834.

[APPENDIX No. 15. Vol. ii. p. 84.]

Memorial Letter from Captain George Probyn, Chairman of the Committee of Commanders and Officers of the Maritime Service, dated 30th July, 1834.

To the Honorable the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The Memorial of the Commanders and Officers of the Maritime Service of the Company

Sheweth:

That the Maritime Service of the East India Company has existed for a period of upwards of two hundred years; that the ships and seamen employed by the said Company have been, in a great degree, instrumental in acquiring and securing the now vast territory of British India, and in advancing its commercial success to that degree which it so long maintained. That your Memorialists entered into that service in the confident expectation that it was a provision for their lives, and they were justified in such expectation by the fact that the Company’s trading Charter was perpetual, and that the continuance of their trade must have rendered a Maritime Service necessary. That by the measure of last session of Parliament, the trade of the Company being suddenly stopped, your Memorialists are altogether deprived of their profession, and those prospects on which they relied for their advancement in life, in entering the service of your Honorable Company, are destroyed.

Under such circumstances, your Memorialists, on behalf of themselves and the other members of the service, most respectfully urge their claim on your Honorable Court for that compensation which, by the Act referred to, the Company is authorized to grant to persons employed “by or under the Company, who have suffered loss by the discontinuance of their trade.” Your Memorialists trust that it is not necessary for them now to urge the validity of their claim as persons employed by or under your Honorable Company. The words in question were introduced into the Act expressly to meet the claims of your Memorialists, which were recognised by Parliament as within the scope and object of the Legislature; and if it were doubtful whether your Memorialists were employed “by,” there could be no doubt that they were employed “under” your Honorable Company. The Maritime Service, however, has been so frequently recognised by the Company as a branch of its establishment, that no substantial doubt can exist that your Memorialists were in the direct service of the Company. It is true that, by the arrangements of the Company, the Commanders and Officers were allowed to be recommended by the Ship-Owners, but they were recommended to the service of the Company. They were examined and approved by your Honorable Court, and sworn into the service of the Company; they were paid by the Company, and subject to fine, suspension, and dismissal by the Company, and not by the Owners; they wore the uniform of the Company, enjoyed rank and command under the Company, and became eligible to offices of high honour and emolument. The officers of the Maritime Service took precedence of the officers of the Company’s Bombay Marine; the Commanders ranked with Field Officers in India, and were eligible to the office of Master-Attendant and other offices of profit in India.

The Commanders in the Maritime Service, though serving in different ships, owned by different parties, held seniority according to the date of their being first sworn into the Company’s service, and gave orders to the Commanders and Officers of such ships. In all these respects there was no preference to the Commanders of the few ships belonging to the Company. Seniority was the title to command, and the Officers of the Company’s own ships were in the same grade as those of the regular ships. Your Memorialists forbear to enter into details on this question, they will merely, therefore, refer to the following Resolution of Court:—

“Sec. 6. It is ordained, that the Court of Directors shall, as soon as reasonably may be, from time to time, preserve and keep a list or register of all existing Commanders and Sworn Officers which have been or shall be employed in the Company’s Maritime Service, except Commanders and Officers who have been or shall be dismissed or removed for misbehaviour, or shall have resigned and quitted the service; and all the Commanders and Sworn Officers of ships already built, now building, or to be built for the service of the Company, or taken up as regular ships, shall be selected from such list or register, but with liberty to admit new Officers to the lowest station of Sworn Officers as the service may require, with the approbation of the Court of Directors, so as always to keep up a sufficient number of Commanders and Officers regularly bred in the service.”

In conformity with the policy proposed in the above resolution, the Honorable Company has encouraged the formation of a class of Commanders and Officers for their particular service, and your Memorialists, under that encouragement, have been induced to enter the service, and have committed their prospects in life to your Honorable Company; and now that the service, from no fault of your Memorialists, from no decline in trade or natural fluctuation of events, but by the violent hand of power, and with views to public policy, is destroyed, your Memorialists confidently rely upon the justice of your Honorable Court to award them compensation. The policy of the Honorable Company, in thus forming Officers for their Commercial Navy, was based upon the most accurate view of their own interest and advantage. The Maritime Service of your Honorable Company was one of great trust and responsibility. The most valuable cargoes were necessarily entrusted to your Commanders, and such was the confidence justly reposed in them, that this property was left altogether uninsured either against sea-risk or barattry. Without assuming extraordinary merit to your Memorialists, they confidently assert that this important pecuniary saving could not have been effected but by Commanders and Officers who had been educated for, and brought up in, the particular service: your Memorialists, however, find that the qualifications which were so important to the service of your Honorable Company are of small account in the open trade system, and Ship-Owners object to employ individuals who have navigated only in vessels of so high a class of equipment as those in the service of your Honorable Company. This is no fancied evil.

The education and habits of your Memorialists as Officers of the Company’s service afford a decided objection to their employment in the free trade; and in proof of this fact, your Memorialists beg to state, that although the tonnage now engaged in the trade to India and China has doubled, not one-fifth of the Officers of the Company’s service have obtained employment.

Your Memorialists moreover entered the service of your Honorable Company from their interest in that particular connection. That interest is of no avail to advance them in another service; and even were employment obtained, your Memorialists could not look to be remunerated upon a scale in any degree commensurate with the emolument derived from the Company’s service, where higher qualifications were required and paid for.

From the regulations of your service, your Memorialists were alone eligible to stations in the Company’s regular ships, while in the general Commercial Navy of the country, they have not even a fair prospect of competing with others; they have not only lost a profession in which they had graduated, and in which they had expected to find a provision for life, but they have lost a connection by which their interest in that profession would have been insured. This is the ground of your Memorialists’ present claim. All the service sustain the loss of profession and connection, and it is in respect of this loss that they ask for compensation.

Your Memorialists state this the more prominently, because they have heard it proposed that compensation should be limited to such Officers as could show an engagement for future employment; but your Memorialists conceive that this is an unsound principle. The Honorable Company established a service with a view to insure a succession of Officers for their employ. There are not now Officers more than sufficient for the supply of the average number of ships employed by your Honorable Company; it is obvious, therefore, that these Officers had a reasonable and just ground to expect, and would have found, employ in the service of the Company but for the Act of last session, which has suddenly destroyed this prospect. Many cases exist, in which, from illness and other temporary causes, Officers were not at the moment of the closing of the Company’s trade in active service, though they might, and probably would, have resumed it; and your Memorialists conceive that all are entitled to compensation who have not absolutely resigned or been dismissed from the Company’s service. If it should be determined to draw a line, to exclude those who have discontinued the service for a certain period, there must be cases of exemption, otherwise the most meritorious Officers would be excluded: but your Memorialists are satisfied, that the attempt to restrict compensation to those who were in actual service, or about immediately to resume it, would be in its operation partial and unjust, and would not afford relief commensurate with the injury. Your Memorialists cannot too strongly press upon the consideration of the Court the fact, that as the number of Commanders and Officers is not excessive, all had a reasonable expectation of employment of which they are altogether deprived, and yet few might be able to show any actual contract for employment, particularly having regard to the temporary system adopted by the Company in the last two or three years, of chartering old ships from voyage to voyage.

Your Memorialists cannot enter into speculations as to what might have been the extent of the Company’s trade if continued. They are fully satisfied that it must have been carried on upon a scale of great magnitude; but this must be mere matter of conjecture. It is by reference only to the past, which is capable of being ascertained, that the loss of your Memorialists can be estimated, and not by surmising a state of things which has no existence.

Your Memorialists have not hitherto proposed any particular scale of compensation, conceiving it to be more respectful to your Honorable Court to await a suggestion from them, and satisfied, from the scale of pensions granted to your Home Establishment, of the desire of the Court to relieve those who have suffered from the consequences of the abolition of the Company’s trade.

The subject, however, having been referred to your Honorable Court with the favourable recommendation of the Proprietors, your Memorialists beg respectfully to present their case before your Honorable Court, with an earnest hope that they may be compensated upon the only principle which can afford them adequate relief, viz., by grant of pensions to the Commanders and Officers who have served the Company. Your Memorialists therefore beg respectfully to submit to your Honorable Court a scale of compensation, which has been prepared with an anxious desire to preserve the utmost moderation.

Your Memorialists are aware that a scale of allowance has been previously prepared, slightly differing from that now submitted. The alterations your Memorialists have made are in favour of the Junior grades of the service, upon which the loss will fall heavily, while the compensation proposed is not considerable. Upon a point so deeply affecting them, your Memorialists feel assured that their suggestion will be received with a favourable consideration, and that your Memorialists will experience at the hands of your Honorable Court that liberality which has ever characterised the conduct of the Honorable Company towards its Officers.

And your Memorialists, etc., etc.

(Signed) George Probyn,
Chairman of the Committee of Commanders
and Officers.
London, 30th July, 1834.