HMS Indian (1805)

Indian
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Indian
Ordered	9 June 1803
Builder	Robert Shedden, Bermuda
Launched	October 1805
Fate	Sold 24 April 1817
United Kingdom
Name	Indian
Owner	Enderbys, then others
Acquired	1817 by purchase
Fate	Leaves Lloyd's Register c.1838; last voyage ended June 1847.
General characteristics [a]
Class and type	18-gun Bermuda-class sloop
Tons burthen	385, or 389, or 39931⁄94 (bm)
Length	107 ft 0 in (32.6 m) (gundeck) 83 ft 10+5⁄8 in (25.6 m) (keel)
Beam	29 ft 11 in (9.1 m)
Depth of hold	14 ft 8 in (4.5 m)
Sail plan	Sloop
Complement	121
Armament	16 × 24-pounder carronades 2 × 6-pounder chase guns

HMS Indian was a Bermuda-built sloop launched in 1805. She captured several small privateers while on the West Indies and Halifax stations before the Royal Navy sold her in 1817. Her main claim to fame, however, is that she was the first command of future Rear-Admiral Charles Austen, who was also the brother of the famed novelist Jane Austen. After the Navy sold her she became a whaler for Samuel Enderby & Sons. She apparently sailed for them until the mid-1830s; she then sailed for other owners until mid-1847, for a total of nine whaling voyages since leaving naval service.

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