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{{other ships|Ganges (Age of Sail merchant ship)|Ganges (East India Company ship)}}
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| armament = 12 x 6 & 4-pounder guns,<ref name=LoM/> or 12 × 6-pounder guns<ref name=LR1797/><ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004281260?urlappend=%3Bseq=139 ''Lloyd's Register'' (1799), Seq. №12.]</ref>
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'''''Ganges''''' was a 700-ton (bm) merchantman launched in India in 1792. She made one voyage under contract to the [[East India Company]] (EIC), and one in 1797 transporting [[convict]]s from [[England]] to [[New South Wales]]. She disappears from the registers after 1802.

==Career==
===EIC voyage #1 (1796)===
''Ganges'', under the command of Thomas Patrickson, left Bengal on 1 February 1796. She was carrying rice on behalf of the British government, which was importing grain to address high prices for wheat in Britain following a poor harvest.<ref>House of Commons (1812), Appendix 34, p.502.</ref>

{{See also|Transport vessels for the British Government's importation of rice from Bengal (1795–1796)}}

''Ganges'' reached [[Saint Helena|St Helena]] on 7 April, and arrived at [[Gravesend, Kent#Gravesend and Thames|Long Reach]] on 10 June.<ref name=BL>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS045-001115025 British Library: ''Ganges'' (2).]</ref><ref group=Note>The British Library entry combines this ''Ganges''{{'}}s voyage and one by {{ship||Ganges|1799 ship}}.</ref>

On 17 September 1796 Thomas Patrickson received a [[letter of marque]] for ''Ganges''.<ref name=LoM>{{cite web|url=http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf|title=Letter of Marque, p.44 - accessed 25 July 2017.|publisher=|access-date=27 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020052005/http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf|archive-date=20 October 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

===Convict transport (1797)===
''Ganges'' appeared in ''[[Lloyd's Register]]'' (''LR'') of 1797 with Patrickson as master and owner, and trade London–[[Botany Bay]].<ref name=LR1797>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004281278?urlappend=%3Bseq=142 ''LR'' (1797), Seq.№G13.]</ref>

Patrickson sailed ''Ganges'' from [[Portsmouth]], England, in early 1797, and she arrived at [[Port Jackson]] on 2 June 1797.{{sfnp|Bateson |1959|p=139}} She transported 203 male convicts, 13 of whom died on the voyage.{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|p=153}} This was despite Sir James Fitzpatrick, the Home Department's surgeon-general, having ordered the installation of ventilators and water purifiers, and the stocking of fumigants and medicines. Patrickson had asked for 300 convicts, but the request was refused.{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|p=152}} The guards were a detachment from the [[New South Wales Corps]].

''Ganges'' left Port Jackson in December 1797 bound for China.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71247621 |title=Arrival of Vessels at Port Jackson, and their Departure |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |work=Australian Town and Country Journal, Saturday 3 January 1891, p.16. |publisher= |accessdate=4 February 2012}}</ref>

''[[Lloyd's Register]]'' for 1799 shows ''Ganges'', Patrickson, master, Captain and company as owners, and with trade London-Botany Bay. This entry continued unchanged through 1802, even though there were changes in reality.

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==Citations==
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==References==
* {{cite book |title =The Convict Ships | first =Charles | last =Bateson | author-link=Charles Bateson | year =1959 | publisher =Brown, Son & Ferguson | oclc =3778075}}
* {{cite book |last=Hackman |first=Rowan |date=2001 |title=Ships of the East India Company |location=Gravesend, Kent |publisher=World Ship Society |isbn=0-905617-96-7}}

[[Category:1792 ships]]
[[Category:British ships built in India]]
[[Category:Ships of the British East India Company]]
[[Category:Convict ships to New South Wales]]
[[Category:Age of Sail merchant ships]]
[[Category:Merchant ships of the United Kingdom]]

Ganges (1792 ship) - Revision history

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