But it is a generall opinion of all Cosm_History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce, Volume 2 (of 4)

seventh clime, the sea is all ice, and the colde so much than none can

suffer it. And hitherto they had all the like opinion, that under the

line Equinoctiall for much heate, the land was unhabitable.

[Sidenote: Answere.]

[Sidenote: A true opinion.]

[Sidenote: A voyage of discovery by the Pole.]

[Sidenote: M. Thorne and M. Eliot discoverers of New found land.]

[Sidenote: The cause why the West Indies were not ours; which also

Sebastian Gabot writeth in an Epistle to Baptista Ramusius.]

Yet since (by experience is proved) no lande so much habitable nor

more temperate. And to conclude, I thinke the same should be found

under the North, if it were experimented. For as all judge, _nihil fit

vacuum in rerum natura_. So I judge there is no land unhabitable, nor

sea innavigable. If I should write the reason that presenteth this

unto me, I should be too prolixe, and it seemeth not requisite for

this present matter. God knoweth that though by it I should have no

great interest, yet I have had and still have no little mind of this

businesse: so that if I had facultie to my will, it should be the first

thing that I woulde understand, even to attempt, if our seas northward

be navigable to the Pole, or no. I reason, that as some sicknesses

are hereditarious, and come from the father to the sonne, so this

inclination or desire of this discoverie I inherited of my father,

which with another marchant of _Bristow_ named _Hugh Eliot_, were the

discoverers the New found lands, of the which there is no doubt (as

nowe plainely appeareth), if the mariners would then have bene ruled,

and followed their pilots minde, the lands of the West Indies (from

whence all the gold commeth) had bene ours, For all is one coast, as by

the Carde appeareth, and is aforesayd.

Also in this Carde by the Coastes where you see C. your Lordship shall

understand it is set for Cape or headland, where I. for Iland, where

P. for Port, where R. for River. Also in all this little Carde, I

think nothing be erred touching the situation of the land, save only

in these Ilands of Spicerie; which for that (as afore is sayd) every

one setteth them after his mind, there can be no certification how they

stand. I doe not denie that there lacke many things, that a consummate

Carde should have or that a right good demonstration desireth. For

there should be expressed, all the mountaines and rivers that are

principall of name in the earth, with the names of Portes of the sea,

the names of all principall cities, which all I might have set, but not

in this Carde, for the little space would not consent.

Your Lordship may see that setting onely the names almost of every

region, and yet not of all, the roome is occupied. Many Islands are

also left out, for the said lack of roome, the names almost of all

Portes put to silence, with the roses of the windes or points of the

compasse: For that this is not for Pilots to sayle by, but a summary

declaration of that which your Lordship commanded. And if by this

your Lordship cannot wel perceive the meaning of this Carde, of the

which I would not marveile, by reason of the rude composition of it,

will it please your Lordship to advise me to make a bigger and a

better mappe or els that I may cause one to be made. For I know myself

in this and all other nothing perfect, but _Licet semper discens,

nonquam tamen ad perfectam scientiam perueniens_. Also I know, to set

the forme sphericall of the world in Plano after the true rule of

Cosmographie, it would have bene made otherwise than this is: howbeit

the demonstration should not have bene so plaine.

And also these degrees of longitude, that I set in the lower part of

this Card, should have bin set along by the line Equinoctiall, and so

then must be imagined. For the degrees of longitude neere either of the

poles are nothing equalled in bignesse to them in the Equinoctiall. But

these are set so, for that setting them along the Equinoctial, it would

have made obscure a great part of the map. Many other curiosities may

be required which for the nonce I did not set downe, as well for that

the intent I had principally, was to satisfy your doubt touching the

spicerie, as for that, I lack leasure and time. I trust your Lordship

correcting that which is erred, will accept my good will, which is to

doe anything that I may in your Lordships service. But from henceforth

I knowe your Lordship will rather command me to keep silence than to be

large, when you shall be wearied with the reading of this discourse.

Jesus prosper your estate and health.

Your Lordships,

ROBERT THORNE, 1527.

Also this Carde, and that which I write touching the variance between

the Emperour and the king of _Portingal_ is not to be shewed or

communicated there with many of that court. For though there is nothing

in it prejudicial to the Emperour, yet it may be a cause of paine to

the maker; as well for that none may make these Cardes but certaine

appointed, and allowed for masters, as for that peradventure it would

not sound well to them, that a stranger should know or discover their

secretes: and would appeare worst of all, if they understand that

I write touching the short way to the Spicerie by our seas. Though

peradventure of troth it is not to be looked to, as a thing that by all

opinions is impossible, and I thinke never will come to effect: and

therefore neither here nor elsewhere is to be spoken of. For to move it

amongst wise men, it should be had in derision. And therefore to none

I would have written nor spoken of such things; but to your Lordship

to whom boldly I commit in this all my foolish fantasie as to myself.

But if it please God that into England I may come with your Lordship,

I will show some conjectures of reason, though against the general

opinions of Cosmographers, by which shall appeare this that I say not

to lacke some foundation. And till that time I beseech your Lordship,

let it be put to silence; and in the meane season, it may please God

to send our two Englishmen, that are gone to the Spicerie, which may

also bring more plaine declaration of that which in this case might be

desired.

Also I know I needed not to have been so prolixe in the declaration

of this Carde to your Lordship, if the sayd Carde had beene very well

made, after the rules of Cosmographie. For your Lordship would soone

understand it better than I, or any other that could have made it:

and so it shoulde appeare that I shewed _Delphinum natare_. But for

that I have made it after my rude maner, it is necessary that I be the

declarer or gloser of my own worke, or els your Lordship should have

had much labour to understand it, which now with it also cannot be

excused, it is so grossely done. But I knew you looked for no curious

things of mee, and therefore I trust your Lordship will accept this,

and hold me for excused. In other mens letters that they write they

crave pardon that at this present they write no larger; but I must

finish, asking pardon that at this present I write so largely. Jesus

preserve your Lordship with augmentation of dignities.[429]

Your servant, ROBERT

THORNE, 1527.

APPENDIX No. 2.

_Letter of the Company of the Merchant Adventurers to Russia to their

Agents._—Vol. ii. p. 83.

“You shall understand we have fraighted for the parts of Russia foure

good shippes to be laden there by you and your order: That is to say,

the _Primerose_ of the burthen of 240 Tunnes, Master under God, John

Buckland: The _John Evangelist_, of 170 Tunnes, Master under God,

Laurence Roundal: The _Anne_ of London, of the burthen of 160 Tunnes,

Master under God, David Philly; and the _Trinitie_ of London of the

burthen of 140 Tunnes, Master under God, John Robins, as by their

charter parties may appeare; which you may require to see for divers

causes. You shall receive, God willing, out of the said good ships,

God sending them in safety for the use of the Company, these kinds of

wares following, all marked with the general marke of the Company as

followeth, 25 fardels containing 207 sorting clothes, one fine violet

in graine, and one skarlet, and 40 cottons for wrappers, beginning

with number 1, and ending with number 52. The sorting clothes may cost

the first peny 5_l._ 9_s._, the cloth, one with the other. The fine

violet 18_l._ 6_s._ 6_d._ The skarlet 17_l._ 13_s._ 6_d._, the cottons

at 9_l._ 10_s._ the packe accompting 7 cottons for a packe: more 500

pieces of Hampshire kersies, that is 400 watchets, 43 blewes, 53 reds,

15 greenes, 5 ginger colours, 2 yellowes which cost the first peny

4_l._ 6_s._ the piece, and three packes containing 21 cottons at 9_l._

10_s._ the packe, and part of the clothes is measured by Arshines.

More 9 barrels of Pewter of Thomas Hasels making &c. Also the wares

bee packed and laden as is aforesayde, as by an invoyce in every

shippe more plainly may appeare. So that when it shall please God to

send the saide good shippes to you in safetie, you are to receive our

said goods, and to procure the sales to our most advantage either for

ready money, time or barter: having consideration that you doe make

good debts, and give such time, if you give any, as you may employ and

returne the same against the next voyage; and also foreseeing that you

barter to a profit and for such wares as be here most vendible, as

waxe, tallowe, traine oile, hempe and flaxe. Of furres we desire no

great plentie, because they be dead wares. And as for felts we will

in no wise you send any. And whereas you have provided tarre, and as

we suppose, some hempe ready bought, our advise is that in no wise

you send any of them hither unwrought because our fraight is 4_l._ a

Tunne or little less: which is so deare, as it would not beare the

charges; and therefore we have sent you 7 ropemakers, as by the copies

of covenants here inclosed shall appeare; whom we will you set to worke

with all expedition in making of cables and ropes of all sorts. Let

all diligence be used that at the returne of these shippes we may see

samples of all ropes and cables if it be possible, and so after to

continue in worke, that we may have good store against the next yeere.

Therefore they have neede to have a place to work in, in the winter;

and at any hand let them have hempe ynough to spinne their stuffes;

for seeing you have great plentie of hempe there, and at a reasonable

price, we trust we shall be able to bring as good stuffe from thence,

better and cheaper than out of Danske; if it be diligently used, and

have a good overseer.

“Let the chiefest lading of these foure shippes be principally in

waxe, flaxe, tallowe, and trayne oyle. And if there be any more wares

than these ships be able to take in, then leave that which is least

in valeu and grossest in stowage untill the next shipping; for wee do

purpose to ground ourselves chiefly upon those commodities, as waxe,

cables and ropes, traine oyle, flaxes and some linen yarne. As for

Masts, Tarre, Hempe, Feathers, or any such other like, they would not

bear the charges to have any considering our deere fraight. We have

sent you a skinner to be there at our charges for meate, drinke and

lodging, to view and see such furres as you shall consider cheape and

buye, not minding nevertheless, that you shall charge yourselves with

many, except those which be most vendible, as good martens mimures,

otherwise called Lettis and Mynkes. Of these you may send us plentie,

finding them good and at a reasonable price. As for sables and other

rich furres, they bee not every mans money; therefore you may send the

fewer, using partly the discretion of the Skinner in that behalfe.

“We heare that there is great plentie of steele in Russia and Tartarie

whereof wee would you sent us part for an example and to write your

mindes in it what store is to be had; for we heare say there is great

plentie and that the Tartars steele is better than that in Russia. And

likewise we be informed that there is great plentie of Copper in the

Emperours Dominions; we would be certified of it what plentie there

is and whether it be in plates or in round flat cakes, and send us

some for example. Also we would have you to certifie us what kind of

woolen cloth the men of Rie and Reuel and the Poles and Lettoes doe

bring to Russia and send the scantlings of them with part of the lists

and a full advice of the lengths and breadths, colours and prices, and

whether they be stained or not: and what number of them may be uttered

in a yeare, to the intent that we may make provisions for them for the

like sorts, and all other Flemish wares which they bring thither and

be most vendible there. And to certifie us whether our set clothes be

vendible there or not and whether they be rowed and shorne; because

of times they goe undrest. Moreover, we will you send us of every

commodity in that Country part, but no great quantity other than such

as is before declared. And likewise every kind of Lether, whereof we

be informed there is great store bought yeerely by the Esterlings and

Duches for hie Almaigne and Germanie.

“More that you doe send us for a proofe a quantity of such earth,

hearbes, or what thing soever it be, that the Russes do die, and colour

any kind of cloth, linen or wollen, Lether or any other thing withall:

and also part of that which the Tartars and Turkes doe bring thither,

and how it must be used in dying and colouring. Moreover that you have

a special foresight in the chusing of your Tallowe and that it may be

well purified and dried, or else it will in one yeere putrifie and

consume.

“Also that you certifie us the truth of the weights and measures, and

howe they do answere with ours, and to send us 3 nobles in money, that

we may try the just value of them.

“Also we doe send you in these ships ten young men that be bound

Prentises to the Companie whom we will you to appoint every of them

as you shall there find most apte and meete, some to keep accompts,

some to buy and sell by your order and commission, and some to send

abroad into the notable cities of the Countrey for understanding and

knowledge.”[430]

APPENDIX No. 3.

_Inventory of ye Great Barke_, A.D. 1531.—Vol. ii. p. 93.

“Thys is the inventory of the Great Barke vyeuwyd by youre humble

servant Christopher Morris, the 6th day of October, the 23 year of our

soverayne King Henry the 8th.

“Item, in primis, the shype with one overlop (overloop or orlop, deck):

Item the fore castell, and a cloos tymber deck from the mast forward,

whyche was made of lait: Item, above the fore castell, a decke from the

mayne mast afterward: Item a nyeu mayne mast of spruce (a sort of fir

so called), with a nyeu staye hounsyd (bound round), and skarvyd (or

scarfed, one piece of timber let into another in a firm joint) with

the same wood; whyche mast ys of length from the hounse to the step 25

yards; the mayne mast, about the patnas, ys 23 hands about: Item a nyeu

mayne mast yaerd of spruce of oon piece.

“Item, the takyll pertaynyng to the said mayne maste, 6 takells on a

syd.

“Item, 9 shrowds, and a back staye on either syde.

“Item, in all the takylles, 6 shyvers (sheevers or sheaves, which

run in the blocks, whether brass or wood) of brass; that is to say 4

shyvers in three pennants, and two in the bowser takylls. Item a payer

of thyes (ties or lifts, the ropes by which the yards hang) and a payer

of hayliards: Item a gyver (a double block) with two brasing shyvers:

item the mayne parrel, with trussys and two drynghs: Item 2 lysts

(tysts, ropes which belong to the yard-arms); item 2 braseys: Item 2

tregets: Item a mayne kerse; Item a bonnet (bonnet belonging to another

sail) haulf warren, with shouts tacks and bollyings: Item a nieu mayne

top: Item a top mast, and a top sayle, with all theyr apparrell: Item a

mayne myssen mast; and a mayne myssyn yaerd of spruce of oon pece.

“Item a payer of haylleards, and a tye for the sayd mayne myssen yaerd:

item 5 shrouds on eyche (each) syd: item a mayne myssen haulf a top:

item a mayne myssen sayle haulf worren.

“Item a bonaventure mast; with a yaerd of spruce of oon pece, with 3

shrouds on a syde. Item a payer of hayliards: item a tye with haulf a

top: item a bonaventure sayle, sore worren.

“Item, a foer mast with 4 takylls, and 7 shrouds on a syd: with a tye

and a payer of hayliards with 4 brasyn shyvers: Item a fore sayle yaerd

with the apparrells, 2 trussys;—item 2 lysts; 2 braessys; 2 top sayll

shoutts; 2 bollyngs; a fore staye; item fore sayll shoutts; two tacks

such they be, Item foer sayle koors, with 2 bonnetts, sore worren: item

a fore top mast, with a yaerd, with sayles, and takyll pertayning to yt.

“Item a bowsprytt of ooke, item a sprytt sayle yard, skarvyd with a

sprytt sayle sore worren.

“Item 4 ankers, with two old cabulls;—and another old cabull whyche

they say ys in the watar.

“Item towe katt howks (catt hooks to raise the anchor): and two fysche

hooks (fish hooks for fishing the anchor): item 4 pollys with brasyn

shyvers: item, a snatche polly; a luff hoke (a takell with 2 hooks):

item 2 pollys for the mayne top sayle: item 2 great dubbell pollys with

woddyn shyver: item 17 pollys, great and small: item 4 kuyll of small

ropys of roers stuff: item 4 boye ropys, good and bad; a fyd of iron

(an instrument used for splicing ropes known as a marlin-spike): item

a shype kettel of 24 gallons: item a pytche pott of brasse: item a

grynding stoen: item a crowe of yeron: item a pytche trouth.

“Item a pompe with three boxys; and a pomp stavys: item 3 compasses,

and a kenning glass (spy-glass or telescope): item 5 lanternnes.

“Item a great boat pertayning to the shyppe; with a davyd, with a

shyver of brass: item xii owers, and a schulb.

“Hereafter followeth the ordinances pertayning to the sayde shype,

item, in primis, two brazyn pecys called kannon pecyes on stokyes which

wayith, The one 9c. 3q. 11lb. the other 10c. 1q. 17lb. whole weight

20c. 28lb: Item 2 payer of shod wheeles nyeu: item 2 ladyng ladells.

“Starboard side. Item oon port pece of yeron cast with 2 chambers: item

a port pece of yeron, with one chamber: Item a spruyche slyng with one

chamber.

“Larboard side. Item oon port pece with 2 chambers: Item another port

pece, with oon chamber, whyche chamber was not made for the sayd pece.

“In the forecastell. Item a small slyng with 2 chambers. Item another

pece of yeron with 2 chaembers, the oon broken.”[431]

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 | For Di-Cannons lx

Barrels ii |

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 iiii^m

________________________

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 | Tampions v^m

Leade ii^m | Canvas for

| Cartowches i^quar

| Paper Ryal for

| Cartowches vi

Arrowes, Morry Pycks

Byllys, Daerts for Toppys

Bowes, Bowestryngs

Bowes of Yough v^c

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 i^m

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.

AT PORTSMOUTH.

Tons. Soldiers. Brass Iron

Pieces. 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 Iron

Pieces. 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 Iron

Pieces. 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 Iron

Pieces. 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 Iron

Pieces. 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 Iron

Pieces. 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

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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.

------------------------------+------------------+----------+----------+---------+----------

------------------------------+------------------+----------+----------+---------+----------

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

Do. do. | South 80 0 | 7 9 | 28 0 | .. | ..

Do. (Lock 110 feet long) | N. West 32 0 | 6 0 | 28 0 | .. | ..

Do. do. | 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

Do. | 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

Do. | 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

Do. do. | 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

Do. | 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

Do. | Canal 18 0 | 2 6 | 29 0 | .. | ..

Canal Basin, let to } | West 18 0 | O.D.S. | 26 0 | 0 920 | 0 110

Bridgewater Trust } | | | | |

Collingwood Dock | West 60 0 | 6 9 | 26 0 | 5 244 | 0 553

Do. | Canal 18 0 | 2 6 | 26 0 | .. | ..

Do. | {North 60 0 | 6 11 | 26 0 | 3 2146 | 0 406

Do. | {South 50 0 | 6 11 | 26 6 | .. | ..

Do. | {Lock 18 0 | 2 6 | 26 0 | .. | ..

Clarence Graving Dock Basin | North 45 0 | 4 9 | 26 0 | 1 1056 | 0 291

Do. Do. | 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

Do | 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

Do. | {North 65 0 | 8 0 | 31 0 | 4 3250 | 0 429

Do. Lock (110 ft. long) | {Middle 32 0 | 8 0 | 31 0 | .. | ..

Do. | {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

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

Do. Do. | {North 45 0 | 6 3 | 28 3 | 2 2688 | 0 429

Do. Do. | {South 45 0 | 6 3 | 28 3 | .. | ..

Albert Dock | North 45 0 | 6 4 | 26 0 | 7 3542 | 0 885

Do. | 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

Do. | South 50 0 | 6 0 | 26 0 | .. | ..

Do. | West 40 0 | 6 0 | 25 0 | .. | ..

Wapping Dock | West 50 0 | 6 0 | 26 0 | 5 499 | 0 815

Do. | South 50 0 | 6 0 | 26 0 | .. | ..

King’s Dock | South 42 0 | 5 0 | 26 1 | 7 3896 | 0 875

Do. Do. | {North 70 0 | 6 9 | 31 0 | 3 3542 | 0 445

Do. Do. | {South 50 0 | 6 9 | 31 0 | .. | ..

Queen’s Dock | West 50 0 | 6 0 | 26 0 | 10 1564 | 0 1214

Do. | 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

Do. | 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

Do. Do. | South 60 0 | 8 0 | 31 0 | .. | ..

+---------+----------

Total Water Area and Quay Space of the Liverpool Docks |243 1559 | 17 263

-----------------------------------------------------------------------+---------+----------

LIVERPOOL BASINS.

+----------------------+-----------+----------+------------+------------+

+----------------------+-----------+----------+------------+------------|

| 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 } | 15 3868 | 1 653 |

| Liverpool Basins } | | |

| Do. do. do. 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.

------------------------------+------------------+----------+----------+---------+----------

------------------------------+------------------+----------+----------+----------+---------

WEST FLOAT | .. .. | .. | .. | 52 19 | 2 210

Basin near Canada Works | West 50 0 | .. | .. | 1 2554 | 0 543

Do. do. | 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 } | 50 0 | .. | 26 0 | 0 1333 | 0 234

238 feet long } | | | | |

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

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.

+----------------------+-----------+----------+------------+------------|

+----------------------+-----------+----------+------------+------------|

| Low-Water Basin | 300 0 | 26 0 | 14 0 | 0 1360 |

| North Basin | 500 0 | 31 0 | 4 2843 | 0 689 |

| +------------+------------|

| Total Water Area and Quay Space of the } | 18 2843 | 1 269 |

| Birkenhead Basins } | | |

| Do. do. do. 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 } | 25 0 | { Above

Leasowe Lighthouse } | | { 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.

-----------------------------+------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------

| | | Dtm. | |

-----------------------------+-----------------+----------+---------+---------+---------

Canada Lock as a Graving Dock| 100 0 | 7 9 | 28 0 | .. | 588 0

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| +---------+ 1480 0

| | | | |

Canning Graving Docks, No. 1 |North 35 9 | 1 8½ | 23 3 | 436 0 |

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.

-----------------------------+-----------------+----------+---------+---------+--------

-----------------------------+-----------------+----------+---------+---------+--------

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

Ditto of the Liverpool Graving Docks | 10136 6

+---------

Total | 12104 6

------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------

LIVERPOOL GRIDIRONS.

-----------------------------------------------------------+----------+-------

| Breadth |Length.

GRIDIRONS. | of |

| Gridiron.|

-----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-------

| Ft. In. |Ft. In.

Clarence Graving Dock Basin—The Blocks are laid 2 feet } | 25 6 | 313 6

2 inches below the Datum at the South end of the } | |

Gridiron, and 3 inches below at the North end } | |

| |

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 & 2 Bridges from the shore.

Basin Stage } 35 wide,

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 | | LEVEL OF SILL. |Level of|

CORPORATION OF LIVERPOOL | Width of +--------+--------+ Coping | Water

--------------------------------+---------------+--------+--------+--------+-----------

| | | | |

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

| | | | |

| | | | |

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

| | | | |

| | | | |

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, 40_l._, 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 100_l._ 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 100_l._

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 10_l._; 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,

200_l._

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, 500_l._

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

500_l._ 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, 20_l._ per cent.

81. The commander to be supplied with 200_l._ 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

-- | Hillsborough | 723 |} combined Fleets

-- | Mountstuart | 758 |} of France and

-- | Gatton | 758 |} Spain, August

-- | Godfrey | 716 |} 9th, 1780.

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 |}

-- | Ganges | 784 |} Lost on the West

-- | Middlesex | 852 |} India Expedition.

-- | 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 |}

-- | Jane, Duchess of Gordon| 820 |}

-- | Bengal | 818 |} Foundered.

-- | 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.

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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 2,000_l._ 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 2,000_l._

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

2,000_l._ 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 2,000_l._ 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 For Regular Ships. 1200 950 800 ton ships.

are to be received

on board. { Ale, Beer, Wine, or }

{ other liquors, in casks }

Company’s Husband { or bottles, for the use of} 13 13 13 tons.

or Assistant. { the Commander’s table, }

{ allowing 252 gallons, or }

{ 86 doz. quart bottles per }

{ ton. }

Sealers at the { *Beef, Pork, Bacon, } 40 35 25 tons.

India Wharf. { Suet, and Tongues. }

Ship’s Husband. { Beer, strong and small, } 28 28 28 tons.

{ in casks (not bottles). }

Sealers at the } *Bread. 350 310 270 cwt.

India Wharf. }

{ Butter. 30 30 30 firkins.

{ Brandy, or other spirits, }

{ for the ship’s company. } 10 9 8 punches.

Ship’s Husband. { Billet Wood. 25,000 25,000 25,000

{ Brimstone. 2 2 2 cwt.

{ Coals. 20 20 15 chaldron.

{ Candles. 50 50 50 dozen.

{ Cheese. 50 50 50 cwt.

Sealers at the } *Chirurgery and Drugs. 65 55 50_l._ value.

India Wharf. }

Ship’s Husband. Canvass. 30 25 20 bolts.

{ Confectionery. 6 6 6 cases.

Sealers at the { *Essence of Malt. 260 230 200 lbs.

India Wharf. { *Essence of Spruce. 260 230 200 lbs.

{ *Flour. 134 100 88 cwt.

Ship’s Husband. Fish. 21 18 16 cwt.

Sealers at the } Grocery. 80 70 50 cwt.

India Wharf. }

Ship’s Husband. { *Gunpowder. 63 60 50 barrels.

{ *Iron Shot. 6 7 4 tons.

Company’s Husband, }

or Assistant } Iron for store. 6 4 4 tons.

Ship’s Husband. }

{ *Lime or Lemon Juice. 130 115 100 gallons.

{ Lead Shot of sorts. 5 5 5 cwt.

Sealers at the { *Mustard Seed. 10 10 10 bushels.

India Wharf. { Oatmeal. 50 50 50 bushels.

{ Oil, Sweet and Lamp. 300 300 300 gallons.

{ Oats, Barley, and Bran. 500 500 500 bushels.

{ Oranges and Lemons. 6 6 6 chests.

{ Oilman’s Stores. 8 8 8 cases.

{ *Pease. 200 190 180 bushels.

{ Pitch. 20 20 20 barrels.

{ Potatoes. 15 15 10 tons.

{ Red and White Herrings

Ship’s Husband. { and Salmon. 5 5 5 barrels.

{ Rosin. 6 6 6 cwt.

{ Spare Cordage. 7 5 5 tons.

Sealers at the } Sheet Lead for store. 2 2 2 tons.

India Wharf. }

Ship’s Husband. Salt, White and Bay. 40 40 40 bushels.

Sealers at the { Slops. 2 2 2 chests.

India Wharf. { Tobacco. 30 25 20 cwt.

{ Tar. 20 20 20 barrels.

{ Turpentine. 3 3 3 barrels.

Ship’s Husband. { *Vinegar. 11 11 9 hds.

{ *Water. 70 60 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.

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£8,000 | Abercrombie Robinson |{Messrs. Palmer, } | Oct. 9, 1834.

| |{ McKilloh and Co. } |

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 } | June 25, 1834.

| |{ Mangles } |

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, } | John Nicholson, Esq. | May 28, 1834.

|{ _outward bound_ } | |

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}| |{Bought in by Owners | Oct. 30, 1834.

8,000}| Inglis |{Bought in by Capt. } | Nov. 15, 1834.

| |{ J. C. Lochner. } |

5,900 | Kellie Castle | Capt. R. Pattallo | Nov. 1834.

10,000 | Lady Melville | John Campbell, Esq. | Aug. 1832.

8,650}| Lowther Castle, } | Joseph Somes, Esq. |{Sept. 24, 1830.

5,300}| _to be broken up_ } | |{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}| Minerva, _for Captain’s_ } | |

2,400}| _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 } | Sept. 28, 1830.

| |{ and Green } |

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}| |{Henry Templer, Esq. | Aug. 6, 1834.

13,500}| Scaleby Castle. |{Bought by Jas. } | Oct. 11, 1834.

| |{ Walkingshaw, Esq., } |

| |{ with stores, and } |

| |{ ready for sea } |

.. | 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,_ }| At Public Sale | June 11, 1834.

|{ _fetched about £7,200_.} | |

.. | William Fairlie | .. | ..

.. | Winchelsea, _broke up_ | .. | 1833.

7,950 | Windsor | William Dallas, Esq. | Nov. 13, 1834.

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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

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.

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