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{{Short description|British East India ship launched at Calcutta in 1793}}
{{other ships|Anna (ship)}}
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|builder=George Foreman & Nathaniel Bacon, Calcutta
|name=''Anna''
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'''''Anna''''' was launched at [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] in 1793. She was often called '''''Bengal Anna''''' to distinguish her from ''Bombay'' {{ship||Anna|1790 ship|2}}. ''Bengal Anna'' made three voyages for the [[British Empire|British]] [[East India Company]] (EIC). She was lost on the coast of [[Chittagong]] c.1811, after participating in a military expedition.

==Career==
Captain Mungo Gilmore sailed from Calcutta on 23 December and was at [[Sagar Island|Saugor]] on 15 February 1795. ''Anna'' reached the [[Cape of Good Hope]] on 19 April and [[Saint Helena|St Helena]] on 5 May; she arrived at [[Deptford]] on 18 August.<ref name=BL>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS045-001114536 British Library: ''Anna'' (2).]</ref> Gilmore acquired a [[letter of marque]] on 22 December 1795. ''Anna'' was admitted to the Registry of Great Britain on 27 September 1796.{{Sfnp|House of Commons|1814|p=86}}

She first appears in ''Lloyd's List'' in 1797 with "Gilmour", master, and Farlie & Co., owner.<ref name=LR1797>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004281278?urlappend=%3Bseq=41 ''Lloyd's Register'' (1797), Supple. "A".]</ref>

On 31 July 1797 ''Bengal Anna'', ''Bombay Anna'', and {{ship||Coromandel|1793 ship|2}} arrived in Portsmouth with invalids and prisoners from the West Indies. They had made a rapid voyage of about a month.<ref>[http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=upenn_main&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&docId=CS50469122&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0] "Ship News." ''Times'' [London, England] 2 Aug. 1797.</ref> The vessels may have gone out to the West Indies in connection with Admiral Sir [[Hugh Cloberry Christian]]'s expedition to the West Indies, thought they are not listed amongst the vessels that left on 24 January 1796.<ref>''[[Lloyd's List]]'' [http://www.1812privateers.org/LLOYDS/1796/02-02-1796.jpg №2790.]</ref>

''Anna'', Mungo Gilmore, master, arrived in England on 2 August 1799 from China.{{sfnp|Hardy|1800|p=223}} This voyage was apparently at the behest of the EIC, though it does not appear in the list of voyages maintained at the British Library. On 9 December ''Bengal Anna'' and ''Bombay Anna'' were at Madeira taking on wine. They were in company with ''Calcutta'', which shortly thereafter was captured and recaptured. They had sailed from Spithead on 20 November.<ref>''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 3, p.79.</ref>

Captain Patrick Clark sailed from Calcutta on 1 July 1800, bound for England. ''Anna'' was at Saugor on 10 October. She reached St Helena on 14 January 1801 and arrived at Long Reach on 16 April.<ref name=BL/>

On 9 November 1802 ''[[Lloyd's List]]'' reported that ''Anna'', Scott, master, had put into [[Île de France]] (Mauritius) in distress.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735020?urlappend=%3Bseq=393 ''Lloyd's List'' №4306.]</ref>

Captain Thomas Scott sailed from [[Khejuri II#Khijri|Kedgeree]] 28 February 1804, bound for England. She was at Saugor on 2 July, and left Bengal on 5 July in company with the country ship {{ship||Mornington|1799 ship|2}}, and ''Maria'', [[Northampton (1801 ship)|''Northampton'']], and ''Princess Mary''.<ref name=LL>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735021?urlappend=%3Bseq=407 ''Lloyd's List'', №4513.]</ref>

She reached St Helena on 29 September,<ref name=BL/> and was still there on 4 October, together with ''Mornington''.<ref name=LL/> ''Anna'' arrived at Deptford on 22 December.<ref name=BL/> Captain Scott acquired a letter of marque on 11 March 1805.<ref name=LoM/>

On 24 March 1810, ''Anna'', Captain Thomas Scott, delivered [[Charles Andrew Bruce]] to assume the governorship of Prince of Wales Island (now called Penang). (Bruce died in office, in December).

''Anna'' then participated as a transport vessel in the British invasion of [[Invasion of Isle de France|Île de France]] (Mauritius), on 3 December 1810.

{{main|Transport vessels for the British invasions of Île Bourbon and Île de France (1810)}}

The British government then chartered ''Anna'' and eight other vessels as [[cartel (ship)|cartels]] to carry back to France the French troops that they had captured in these campaigns.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735025?urlappend=%3Bseq=55 ''Lloyd's List'' №4547.]</ref>

==Fate==
''Anna'' was lost on the coast of Chittagong while returning from Mauritius.{{sfnp|Phipps|1840|p=97}} She was last listed in the ''Register of Shipping'' in 1812.<ref name=RS1812>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015024214317?urlappend=%3Bseq=60 ''Register of Shipping'' (1812), Seq. №A948.]</ref>

==Citations==
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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=Hardy}}
* {{cite book|last=Phipps|first=John, (of the Master Attendant's Office, Calcutta)|year=1840|title=A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time ...|publisher=Scott}}
* {{cite book |author=((House of Commons, Parliament, Great Britain)) |year=1814 |title=Minutes of the Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on Petitions Relating to East-India-Built Shipping |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |ref={{SfnRef|House of Commons|1814}}}}

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