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|Ship image= Hindostan (East Indiaman).jpg
|Ship image size = 300px
| Ship caption=The East Indiaman {{ship||Hindostan|1796 Indiaman|2}} in company with ''Indian Trader'', ''Ewretta'', and ''Nancy'', ships employed in the Canada trade. [[Thomas Whitcombe]], {{circa|1830}}
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|Ship country=Great Britain
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Kingdom of Great Britain|civil}}
|Ship name=''Indian Trader''
|Ship namesake=
|Ship owner=*1791:John Brickwood{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|pp=131-2}}
*1798:M. Benson<ref name=LR1798/>
*1823:J. Somes
|Ship builder=Barnard, Deptford{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|pp=131-2}}
|Ship launched=28 November 1791
|Ship laid down=
|Ship yard number=
|Ship fate=Wrecked and condemned 1829
|Ship notes=
}}
{{Infobox ship characteristics
|Ship type=
|Ship tons burthen=340,<ref name=BL>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS045-001115192 British Library: ''Indian Trader''.]</ref> 340{{small|{{frac|20|94}}}}{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|pp=131-2}} or 342,<ref name=LoM>{{Cite web |url=http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf |title=Letter of Marque, p.69 - accessed 25 July 2017. |access-date=19 December 2017 |archive-date=20 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020052005/http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> or 345,<ref name=LoM/> or 368<ref name=LR1833/> ([[Builder's Old Measurement|bm]])
|Ship length=*Overall: {{convert|101|ft|8|in|m|0|abbr=on}}<ref name=BL/>
*Keel:{{convert|80|ft|6|in|m|0|abbr=on}}<ref name=BL/> 
|Ship beam={{convert|28|ft|2+1/4|in|m|0|abbr=on}}<ref name=BL/>
|Ship hold depth={{convert|11|ft|5+1/2|in|m|0|abbr=on}}<ref name=BL/>
|Ship draught=
|Ship propulsion=Sail
|Ship speed=
|Ship complement=*1794:25<ref name=LoM/>
*1796:31<ref name=LoM/>
*1798:25<ref name=LoM/>
*1801:35<ref name=LoM/>
|Ship armament=*1794:8 × 6&4-pounder guns + 2 [[swivel guns]]<ref name=LoM/>
*1796:10 × 6&4-pounder guns<ref name=LoM/>
*1798:14 × 6&9-pounder guns<ref name=LoM/>
*1801:16 × 18&6-pounder guns<ref name=LoM/>
*1815:4 × 9-pounder guns + 4 × 12-pounder [[carronades]]
|Ship notes=Three decks
}}
|}

'''''Indian Trader''''' was launched in 1791. She made one voyage for the British [[East India Company]] (EIC). She was on her second voyage when a French privateer captured her. The British recaptured her and she returned to merchant service, sailing to the Americas. She was lost {{circa|1830}}.

==Career==
''Indian Trader'' entered ''[[Lloyd's Register]]'' in 1792 with John Edwards, master, Brickwood, owner, and trade London–Montreal.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004281252?urlappend=%3Bseq=192 ''Lloyd's List'' (1792), Seq.№583.]</ref>{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|pp=131-2}}

''Lloyd's Register'' for 1794 showed ''Indian Trader''{{'}}s master changing from Edwards to Dunlop, and her trade from London–Montreal to London–Bengal.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004281237?urlappend=%3Bseq=184 Seq.№IJ216.]</ref>

On 1 May 1794 Captain David Dunlop acquired a [[letter of marque]].<ref name=LoM/> Before she was ready for a voyage for the EIC, Wells repaired her.<ref name=BL/> On 25 June Gilbert Ferguson and William Gillett certified to the EIC's Court of Directors that before she, and seven other vessels, had left the Thames, "everything was done, that in our opinion was necessary, to make them sufficiently strong to bring home a cargo from India".<ref>Proceedings... (1795), p.845.</ref>

Dunlop sailed from Portsmouth on 11 June, bound for Bengal. However, ''Indian Trader'' was detained there for over a month.<ref>Proceedings... (1795), p.847.</ref> She did not reach Falmouth until 14 August. She was at Madeira on 5 September,{{efn|Before she left England, the Court of Directors had agreed with ''Indian Trader''{{'}}s ship's husband, William Hamilton, that she would be allowed to stop at Madeira.<ref>Proceedings... (1795), p.692.</ref>}} and arrived at [[Kolkatta|Calcutta]] 15 February 1795. Homeward bound, she was at [[Diamond Harbour]] on 14 April, reached [[Saint Helena|St Helena]] on 25 August.<ref name=BL/> On 3 September she sailed from St Helena. She sailed together with {{ship||Boddam|1787 EIC ship|2}}, {{ship||Rockingham|1785 EIC ship|2}}, and {{ship||Latona|1789 ship|2}}, and a number of other vessels, all under the escort of {{HMS|Hector|1774|6}}.<ref>''[[Lloyd's List]]'' [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c3049068?urlappend=%3Bseq=181 №2759.]</ref> ''Indian Trader'' arrived at [[The Downs (ship anchorage)|the Downs]] on 24 November.<ref name=BL/>

Captain Edmund Barker acquired a letter of marque on 5 May 1796.<ref name=LoM/> He sailed for Bengal on 15 May. However, in November the French captured her in the South Atlantic. Her captors sent her into Cayenne.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c3049068?urlappend=%3Bseq=403 ''Lloyd's List'' №2873.]</ref>{{sfnp|Hardy|1800|p=225}} The EIC had no cargo aboard.{{Sfnp|House of Commons|1830|p=979}}

In 1797 {{HMS|Thetis|1782|6}} recaptured ''Indian Trader'' as ''Indian Trader'' was sailing from Cayenne to Baltimore. ''Thetis'' sent her into Halifax, Nova Scotia.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c3049069?urlappend=%3Bseq=207 ''Lloyd's List'' №2975.]</ref>

''Indian Trader'' returned to ''Lloyd's Register'' in the 1798 volume. Her master was Manlove, her owner was M. Benson, and her trade was Liverpool–Jamaica.<ref name=LR1798>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004281211?urlappend=%3Bseq=196 ''Lloyd's Register'' (1798), Seq.no.IJ594.]</ref> Captain Joseph Manlove acquired a letter of marque on 18 June 1798.<ref name=LoM/> ''Lloyd's List'' reported on 18 July 1800 that ''Indian Trader'', Manlove, master, had sailed from Jamaica for Liverpool, but had to return because of damage to her masts.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c3049070?urlappend=%3Bseq=359 ''Lloyd's List'' №4069.]</ref>

Captain James Corless acquired a letter of marque on 26 August 1801.<ref name=LoM/> D. Sheepe replaced him according to ''Lloyd's Register'' for 1803.{{efn|Corless apparently had died. His will was proved in 1803.}}

The data below is from the ''Register of Shipping''.

{| class="sortable wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Master
! Owner
! Trade
! Notes
|-
| 1805
| Skaife
| Benson
| Liverpool–Jamaica
|
|-
| 1810
| Skaife
| Benson
| Liverpool–Jamaica
|
|-
| 1815
| Lea
| Benson
| Liverpool–Jamaica
| Large repair 1807
|-
|}

On 26 September 1815 ''Indian Trader'', Lea, master, ran aground at Liverpool while returning from Jamaica. She was got off, reportedly without damage.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735027?urlappend=%3Bseq=171 ''Lloyd's List'' №5009.]</ref>

{| class="sortable wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Master
! Owner
! Trade
! Notes
|-
| 1820
| Cameron
| R. Hall & Co.
| Liverpool–Montevideo
| Damages repaired and good repair 1815
|-
| 1823
| P. White<br />Sinclair
| W. Ewart<br />Somes
| Liverpool–New Brunswick
| Damages repaired and good repair 1815
|-
|}

On 6 July 1821 ''Indian Trader'' sailed from Belfast with 200 migrants. She arrived at Quebec on 21 August.<ref>[https://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Arrivals/ships1821c.shtml Ship Arrivals at the Port of Quebec, August 17 - November 7 1821.]</ref>

On 31 May 1823, ''Indian Trader'' was at Sierra Leone when a lightning strike destroyed her mainmast.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Marine List |work=Lloyd's List |issue=5819 |date=11 July 1823 |hdl=2027/uc1.c2735033?urlappend=%3Bseq=227}}</ref>

{| class="sortable wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Master
! Owner
! Trade
! Notes
|-
| 1825
| Reynoldson<br />Johnson
| Somes
| London transport<br />London–Quebec
| Underwent a good repair in 1823 and a large repair in 1824
|-
|}

''Lloyd's List'' reported on 21 December 1827 that ''Maria'' had damaged ''Indian Trader''.

On 13 January 1828 a gale drove ''Jessie Lawson'' into ''Indian Trader''. ''Jessie Lawson'' then ran aground and was wrecked in Mountbatten Bay. All on board survived. ''Jessie Lawson'' was on a voyage from London to [[Van Diemen's Land]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |date=15 January 1828 |issue=17811}}</ref><ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=AWFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE |date=19 January 1828 |page=3 |issue=13493 |column=C }}</ref>

{| class="sortable wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Master
! Owner
! Trade
! Notes
|-
| 1830
| Trist
| Somes
| London–[[Campeche City|Campechy]]
| Damages repaired in 1828
|-
|}

==Fate==
On 26 October 1829 a steamboat towed ''Indian Trader'' into Stockholm. ''Indian Trader'' had been sailing from "Laguna"  to St Petersburg when she had struck on [[Gotland|Gothland]]. It was expected that ''Indian Trader'' would be condemned.<ref>[http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/99vJp3 "Ship News." ''Times'', 16 Nov. 1829, p. 3. The Times Digital Archive. Accessed 17 Feb. 2019.]</ref>

The ''Register of Shipping'' for 1831 has the notation "LOST" by her name.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015024214507?urlappend=%3Bseq=325 ''Register of Shipping'' (1831), Seq. №I40.]</ref> ''Lloyd's Register'' continued to carry ''Indian Trader'' with stale data until 1833.<ref name=LR1833>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015065537923?urlappend=%3Bseq=322 ''Lloyd's Register'' (1833), Seq.№I42.]</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite book |last=Hackman |first=Rowan |year=2001 |title=Ships of the East India Company |location=Gravesend, Kent |publisher=World Ship Society |isbn=0-905617-96-7 }}
* {{cite book |last=Hardy |first=Charles |year=1800 |title=A Register of Ships, Employed in the Service of the Hon. the United East India Company, from the Union of the Two Companies, in 1707, to the Year 1760: Specifying the Number of Voyages, Tonnage, Commanders, and Stations. To which is Added, from the Latter Period to the Present Time, the Managing Owners, Principal Officers, Surgeons, and Pursers; with the Dates of Their Sailing and Arrival: Also, an Appendix, Containing Many Particulars, Interesting to Those Concerned in the East India Commerce |publisher=Charles Hardy}}
* {{cite book |author=House of Commons, Parliament, Great Britain |year=1830 |title=Reports from the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the present state of the affairs of the East India Company, together with the minutes of evidence, an appendix of documents, and a general index |volume=2 |publisher=Printed by order of the honourable court of directors, by J.L. Cox |ref={{SfnRef|House of Commons|1830}}|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433077895047;view=1up;seq=232}} 
*''Proceedings Relative to Ships Tendered for the Service of the United East-India Company, from the Twenty-sixth of March, 1794, to the Sixth of January, 1795: With an Appendix''.

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[[Category:Age of Sail merchant ships of England]]
[[Category:Ships of the British East India Company]]
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[[Category:Migrant ships to Canada]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in January 1828]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in October 1829]]