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{{Short description|Commodore of Bombay Marine and explorer for the British East India Company}}
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|name = John Hayes<ref name="idalee"/>
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1768|02|11}}
|birth_place = [[Cumberland]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|1831|07|03|1768|02|11}}
|death_place = [[Cocos (Keeling) Islands]]
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|allegiance = [[British East India Company]]
|branch = Bombay Marine
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|serviceyears = 7 Sep 1781 - 1831
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|rank = Commodore
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|unit = *Jehanguire, as 1st Lt. Feb 1796
*Drake, as 2nd Lt.
*Scorpion, as 2nd Lt.
*Hawke, as 2nd Lt. 1788
*Bombay, as Midshipman, c.1782
|commands = *Master Attendant, Calcutta
*Deputy Master Attendant, Calcutta
*Bombay Marine
*Bombay, frigate
*Swift
*Fly
*Alert
*Dolphin
*Vigilant
*Princess Augusta
|battles = *[[First Anglo-Burmese War]]
*[[Invasion of Java (1811)]]
*Capture of Ternate, 11 February-21 June 1801
*[[Third Anglo-Mysore War]]
*[[Second Anglo-Mysore War]]
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|spouse = {{marriage|Katherine Pyne|17 Aug 1795|3 Jul 1831}} died. 8 Aug 1866
|children = *Charlotte Price
*Helen Kezia
*Elizabeth
*Fletcher Fulton Compton Hayes
|relations = Fletcher Hayes, brother
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Commodore '''Sir John Hayes''' (bapt. 11 February 1768 – 3 July 1831)<ref name="adb">{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Roe |first=Margriet |year=1966|id=A010487b|title= Hayes, Sir John (1768 - 1831) |accessdate=20 August 2009}}</ref> was an English officer of the [[Bombay Marine]] of the [[British East India Company]].<ref name="idalee">{{cite book | title=Commodore Sir John Hayes His Voyage and Life (1767-1831) with some account of Admiral d'Entrecasteaux's voyage of 1792-3 | author=Ida Lee | author-link=Ida Lee | year=1912 | publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co. | url=https://archive.org/details/commodoresirjohn00leei}}</ref>

Hayes was born in [[Bridekirk]], Cumberland, England, the son of Fletcher Hayes and Elizabeth Martin. On 7 December 1781, at age 13, he joined the Bombay Marine as a midshipman on the ''Bombay''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roe |first1=Margriet |title=Hayes, Sir John (1768–1831) |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hayes-sir-john-2173 |website=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |accessdate=5 April 2019}}</ref> On 6 February 1793, he sailed from [[Calcutta]] on a private trading voyage with two chartered ships, the ''Duke of Clarence'' of 250 tons ([[Builder's Old Measurement|bm]]) and 14 guns and the ''Duchess'', an armed [[Snow (ship)|snow]] of 100 tons (bm). The goal was to collect [[nutmeg]] from [[New Guinea]]. However, on passing [[Timor]], due to adverse winds he decided to navigate around the south coast of [[Australia]] and resupply with wood and water at [[Adventure Bay, Tasmania|Adventure Bay]] in [[Tasmania]].<ref name="idalee"/>

He spent some time exploring the area of the [[River Derwent (Tasmania)|River Derwent]], unaware that it had already been charted by [[Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux]]. He (re)named many geographic features, generally using the names of officers in the East India Company or his shipmates. Some of these names survive to the present day, including the River Derwent itself and [[Risdon Cove]].<ref name="idalee"/>

Leaving Tasmania on 9 June, he arrived at [[New Caledonia]] on 28 June and explored the coast until leaving for New Guinea on 3 July. He was the first European to land on [[Rossel Island]].<ref name="idalee"/>

He died in the [[Coco Islands]], in the [[Bay of Bengal]], while en route to [[Calcutta]], aged 63. His only son, Captain Fletcher Fulton Compton Hayes, was killed in [[Awadh]] during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=De Rhé-Philipe |first1=George William |title=A Narrative of the First Burmese War, 1824-26 |date=1905 |publisher=Office of the Superintendent of Government Print., India |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MhEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA13 |language=en}}</ref>

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