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|country=United Kingdom
|flag= [[File:Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|60px|United Kingdom civil ensign]]
|name=''Hashemy''
|namesake=[[Al-Hashimi (surname)]]
|owner=*1819: Sayed Sadduck (managing owner)
*1828: Templer & Co{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=282}}
*1834: Hyde
*1845: Ross, Corbett, & Co. Greenock<ref name=Letters>''Letters'' (June 2013).</ref>
|builder=Michael Smith, [[Howrah]], Calcutta{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=282}}{{sfnp|Phipps|1840|p=108}}
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|launched=2 April 1817{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=282}}
|fate=Hulked c. 1867
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*1845:[[Barque]]
|tons_burthen=479{{small|{{frac|60|94}}}}{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=282}} or 495,<ref name=EIRD/> or 497,{{sfnp|Phipps|1840|p=108}} or 523{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|pp=306–307}}([[Builder's Old Measurement|bm]])
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'''''Hashemy''''' (or '''''Hashmy''''', or '''''Hashimy'''''), was a [[teak]]-built vessel launched at [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] in 1817. She was originally a country ship, trading east of the [[Cape of Good Hope]]. In 1829 she made one voyage as a [[whaler]] in the Southern Whale Fishery. From 1846 on she made several voyages transporting people, notably [[coolies]] from India to British Guiana, and [[convicts]] to Australia. She was probably [[Hulk (ship type)|hulked]] in Bengal c.1867.

==Career==
In 1819 ''Hashimy'' was registered at Calcutta with C.E.Smith, master, and Sayed Sadduck, owner.<ref name=EIRD>''East-India register and directory'' (1819), p.134.</ref> This information was unchanged in 1821, though the name of ''Hashimy''{{'}}s owner was given as Syed Saduck. In 1824 ''Hashmy''{{'}}s master was J.J. Denham, and her managing owner was Rustumjee & Co.<ref>''East-India register and directory'' (1824), p.154.</ref> In 1825 she was sold for a free trader.{{sfnp|Phipps|1840|p=108}}

''Hashemy'' entered ''[[Lloyd's Register]]'' (''LR'') in 1829. She had undergone small repairs in 1829.<ref name=LR1829>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015065537915?urlappend=%3Bseq=750 ''LR'' (1829), Supple. pages "H", Seq.№75.]</ref>

{| class=" wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Master
! Owner
! Trade
! Source
|-
| 1829
| Cook
| Templer
| London–South Seas
| ''LR''
|-
|}

''Hashemy'' sailed in November 1829 with John Cook, master, on a whaling voyage, bound for Timor. She was reported at various times to have been at [[Kupang|Coupang]], Guam, [[Kosrae]], and [[New Zealand]]. Cook drowned at some point before May 1831.<ref name=bswf>{{cite web|title=British Southern Whale Fishery database – Voyages: ''Hashemy''|url=https://whalinghistory.org/bv/voyages/}}</ref> ''Hashemy'' was at Sydney on 5 April 1831. It was reported in the press she, "has put into port to procure a captain, her master having been struck out of the stern sheets, of a boat by the tail of a whale, and never seen afterwards."<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12845629?searchTerm=Master%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&searchLimits=l-state=New+South+Wales%7C%7C%7Csortby=dateAsc%7C%7C%7Cl-decade=183%7C%7C%7Cl-title=37%7C%7C%7Cl-year=1831 ''The Sydney Herald'', 18 April 1831, p.4]</ref> Command of the vessel was then given to Captain John Barker Harwood.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12843045?searchTerm=Hashmy%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc%7C%7C%7Cl-state=New+South+Wales%7C%7C%7Cl-decade=183 ''The Sydney Herald'', 16 May 1831, p.4]</ref> In Sydney, 100 tuns of her sperm whale oil and [[spermaceti|headmatter]] were sold for £60 a tun, an amount, "equal to that obtained in the London market."<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2200612?browse=ndp%3Abrowse%2Ftitle%2FS%2Ftitle%2F3%2F1831%2F05%2F17%2Fpage%2F498892%2Farticle%2F2200612 ''The Sydney Gazette'', 17 May 1831, p.3]</ref> While ''Hashmy'' was coming from Japan, Harwood discovered an atoll that he named the Hashmy Group. This probably occurred in 1832. The atoll is now known as [[Namoluk]] Atoll.

''Hashemy'' arrived at Sydney again on 3 February 1833. The ''Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser'' reported on 7 March that ''Hashmy'' had been engaged to carry the oils of ''Nimrod'' and ''Australian'' to London.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2211050 ''Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser'' (7 March 1833), p.3.]</ref> ''Hashemy'', Harford Arnold, master, sailed from Sydney on 2 May, bound for England with a cargo of colonial produce.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12846742 ''Sydney Herald'' (2 May 1833), p.2, "SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE". ]</ref> Contrary winds then delayed her departure by two days.

''Lloyd's Register'' for 1834 showed ''Hashemy'' with Hatfield, master, Templer, owner, and trade London–India.

{| class="sortable wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Master
! Owner
! Trade
! Source
|-
| 1835
| Hatfield Hyde
| Templer Hyde
| London–India London–China
|
|-
| 1840
| Buckle
| Hyde
| London–[[Chennai|Madras]]
|
|-
| 1845
| Buckle Ross
| Hyde & Co. Heath & Co.
| London–Calcutta
| ''LR''; damages repaired in 1844
|-
| 1846
| Ross
| Heath & Co. Ross & Co.
| London–Calcutta London
| ''LR''; damages repaired in 1844
|-
|}

Ross, Corbett and Co., acquired ''Hashemi'' in 1846. Captain John Ross may have been a part-owner as well. The new owners converted ''Hashemy'' to a barque.<ref name=Letters/> Thereafter she made several voyages transporting people, first [[coolies]] from India to British Guiana, and then convicts and settlers from England to Australia.

On 9 September 1846 ''Hashemy'' sailed from [[Chennai|Madras]] to British Guiana with 283 [[coolies]], of whom 226 were men, and the rest women and children. All survived the voyage.<ref>''General Report of the Emigration Commissioners, Volume 2'' (1847), pp.26 & 65.</ref> She delivered over 50 to New Bendorff on 5 December.

''Hashemy'', Captain John Ross, sailed from Portsmouth on 11 February 1849. She arrived at Sydney on 9 June.{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|pp=306–307}} She had embarked 237 male convicts, 16 of whom died on the voyage. She landed 221.{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|p=339}} By some accounts she sailed via Hobart, where she landed 29 [[Parkhurst apprentices]] and in May had stopped at Port Phillip.{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|pp=322-323}} However, subsequent research has revealed that ''Hashemi'' never stopped at Port Phillip, and was not even turned away.{{sfnp|Wilkie|2014}}

On 22 July 1850 Captain Ross sailed ''Hashemy'' from [[Isle of Portland|Portland]]. She arrived in Western Australia on 25 October.{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|pp=324-325}} She had embarked 100 male convicts and she landed all of them.{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|p=341}} She was the second vessel, after {{ship||Scindian}}, to deliver convicts to Western Australia. Captain Ross contracted with the Government to purchase 533 tons of guano at a modified price. In return Ross did not charge the Government for a considerable quantity of Government freight that ''Hashemy'' carried to [[Shark Bay]]. While in Shark Bay exploring for guano, Ross also mapped the area.<ref name=Letters/>

''Hashemy'' eventually left for London. She arrived at Gravesend on 17 August 1851.<ref name=Letters/>

{| class="sortable wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Master
! Owner
! Trade
! Source
|-
| 1850
| J. Ross
| Ross & Co.
|
| ''LR''
|-
| 1854
| J. Ross
| Ross & Co.
|
| ''LR''
|-
|}

''Hashemi'' was listed in ''Lloyd's Register'' until 1854, but with data that had been stale since 1850. However, in 1857 she reappeared with H. Boys, master, Beatson & Co., owners, and trade London–Mediterranean.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015065777479?urlappend=%3Bseq=199 ''LR'' 1857), Seq.№H133.]</ref> By 1860 her trade was Cardiff–South America. The last entry for her, with unchanged data, is from 1866.

==Fate==
The last online mention of a ''Hashemy'' is from 1868. In 1862 the British built [[Canning, South 24 Parganas|Port Canning]] on the [[Matla River]] in Bengal. On 1–2 November 1867 a [[Pre-1890 North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons#November 1867 Great Calcutta cyclone|cyclone hit the Calcutta area]], doing significant damage. The storm's greatest damage occurred at Port Canning where a {{convert|5|ft|adj=on}} storm surge destroyed many buildings. A report stated that the Port Canning Company's store hulk ''Hashemy'' had carried away a great portion of the railway jetty.<ref>''Annual report on the administration of the Bengal Presidency'' (1868), pp.220-221.</ref> Although it has not been possible to verify that the ''Hashemy'' last listed in ''Lloyd's Register'' in 1866 is the ''Hashemy'' caught up in the cyclone in Bengal in 1867, the name is unique in the period.

==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 |year=2001 |title=Ships of the East India Company |location=Gravesend, Kent |publisher=World Ship Society |isbn=0-905617-96-7 }}
*"Letters from the Past No.26: Letter from Captain John Ross, the first Moruya Pilot to the Sydney Morning Herald in 1863". ''Journal of the Moruya & District Historical Society'' (June 2013).[https://www.mdhs.org.au/pdfs/Ships%20and%20Shipwrecks/John_Ross_Letters.pdf]
* {{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 journal |last1=Wilkie |first1= Douglas|year=2014 |title=The Hashemy at Port Phillip: A case study in historical error |journal=Victorian Historical Journal |volume=85 |issue=1 }}

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[[Category:1817 ships]]
[[Category:British ships built in India]]
[[Category:Age of Sail merchant ships of England]]
[[Category:Whaling ships]]
[[Category:Convict ships to New South Wales]]
[[Category:Convict ships to Western Australia]]
[[Category:Whaling in Australia]]

Hashemy (1817 ship) - Revision history

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