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{{Short description|British merchant ship built in India 1792–1802}}
{{other ships|Bangalore (disambiguation){{!}}Bangalore (ship)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2017}}
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|section1={{Infobox ship/image
|image=Loss of the Bangalore.jpg
|image_caption=Loss of the Bangalore, Capt Lynch, on a Coral Reef in the Indian Sea, [[Thomas Tegg]], National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
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|section2={{Infobox ship/career
|country=Great Britain
|flag={{shipboxflag| Kingdom of Great Britain|civil}}
|yard_number=
|owner=Tullock (or Tulloch) & Co.
|builder=G. Gillett, [[Kolkata|Calcutta]]{{sfnp|Phipps|1840|p=97}}
|name=''Banglore''
|namesake=[[Bangalore]]
|launched=1792
|acquired=
|fate=Wrecked 12 April 1802
|notes=
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|type=
|tons_burthen=206,<ref name=BL>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS045-001114588 British Library: ''Bangalore''.]{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>{{sfnp|Phipps|1840|p=97}} or 291,<ref name=RS1806/>{{Sfnp|House of Commons|1814|p=86}} or 298,{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|pp=223-4}} or 400<ref name=New/> ([[Builder's Old Measurement|bm]])
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|propulsion=Sail
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|armament=10 × 6-pounder guns<ref name=LR1798/>
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'''''Bangalore''''' was built in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] in 1792 and took on British registry in 1797 after having made a voyage from Bengal to London under charter to the British [[East India Company]] (EIC). She then traded between London and India. She was wrecked in 1802 in the [[Flores Sea]].

==Career==
On 20 August 1792 ''Bangalore'' was under the command of Captain Wilson when a heavy gale drove her across the tail of the Saugor Sand. Charts that accurately described water depths enabled Wilson to navigate into [[Muri Ganga River|Channel Creek]] and then to safety in Randall's Cove.<ref>''Report...'' (1806), p.61.</ref>

Under the command of Captain James Frayer, ''Bangalore'' was at Calcutta on 15 February 1796 and left Bengal on 22 March. She reached [[Saint Helena]] on 4 July and Crookhaven on 27 November, before arriving at Blackwall on 17 December.

''Bangalore'' was admitted to the Registry of Great Britain on 17 February 1797.{{Sfnp|House of Commons|1814|p=86}} She entered ''[[Lloyd's Register]]'' in 1798 with J. Friar, master, and Tullock, owner.<ref name=LR1798>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004281211?urlappend=%3Bseq=59 ''Lloyd's Register'' (1798), Seq. №B410.]</ref>

One record has ''Bangalore'' sailing to Bengal and return between 16 January 1797 and 19 December 1798.{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|pp=223-4}}

The ''New Oriental Register...'' in 1802 gave her master and owner as Francis Lynch.<ref name=New>''New Oriental Register...'' (1802), p.70.</ref>

==Fate==
''Bangalore'' was wrecked on 12 April 1802.<ref>Mason (1908), p62.</ref> She was under the command of Captain Lynch and nine days out from [[Ambon Island|Amboyna]]. Survivors in the pinnace and jolly boats reached [[Surabaya|Sourabaya]]. The Dutch received them kindly and later sent them on to [[Batavia (Dutch East Indies)|Batavia]].{{efn|This information is from Thomas Teggs's "Account of Shipwrecks".<ref>[http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/110516.html National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.]</ref>}} The wreck may have occurred on "Jagger's Reef" ("Bangalore Shoal") around {{coord|7|40|S|121|13|E}} in the Flores Sea.<ref>Bowditch (1821), p.282, Table XLVYI.</ref>

Although the wreck occurred in 1802, ''Lloyd's Register'' carried an (unchanged) entry for her to 1805, and the ''Register of Shipping'' did so to 1806.<ref name=RS1806>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021233542?urlappend=%3Bseq=70 ''Register of Shipping'' (1806), Seq.№24.]</ref>

==Notes==
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==Citations==
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==References==
*Bowditch, Nathaniel (1821) ''The New American Practical Navigator ... Exemplified in a Journal Kept from Boston to Madeira ...: With an Appendix ...''.(E.M. Blunt).
* {{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 }}
*Mason, Herbert B., ed. (1908) ''Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping''. (Shipping Encyclopaedia).
*''New Oriental Register and East India Directory for 1802'' (1802). (London: Black's and Parry).
* {{cite book|last=Phipps|first=John |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}}}}

{{1802 shipwrecks}}

[[Category:1792 ships]]
[[Category:British ships built in India]]
[[Category:Ships of the British East India Company]]
[[Category:Age of Sail merchant ships]]
[[Category:Merchant ships of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in 1802]]

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