Ganges (1794 ship)

History
United Kingdom
NameGanges
NamesakeGanges
BuilderBombay Dockyard, India
Launched1794[1][2]
FateBurned and exploded 11 January 1797 or 11 January 1799
General characteristics
Tons burthen130[1] (bm)
Sail planBrig
Complement107[3]

Ganges was a brig launched at Bombay Dockyard for the Bengal Pilot Service,[2] of the British East India Company (EIC). (She is sometimes referred to as a schooner, but that is more a reference to her role than her sailing rig.) She was burnt in Saugor Roads on 11 January 1797,[1] or 11 January 1799.[3] The accidental fire spread to the powder magazine and the explosion killed eight men. Forty men took to her boat, and 59 to a hastily constructed raft. Six hours after the men took to the raft Laurel rescued all the survivors.[3]

  1. ^ a b c Phipps (1840), p. 133.
  2. ^ a b Hackman (2001), p. 331.
  3. ^ a b c Grocott (1997), pp. 67–68.