&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Hindostan_(East_Indiaman).jpg) The East Indiaman Hindostan in company with Indian Trader, Ewretta, and Nancy, ships employed in the Canada trade. Thomas Whitcombe, c.1793
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| Name | Hindostan |
| Owner | Robert Williams, M.P. |
| Operator | British East India Company |
| Builder | East India Company |
| Launched | 1796 |
| Fate | Wrecked 11 January 1803 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type | East Indiaman |
| Tons burthen | 1248,[2] or 1463, or 1518[3] (bm) |
| Length | 176 ft 9 in (53.9 m) (overall); 143 ft 10+3⁄4 in (43.9 m) (keel) |
| Beam | 43 ft 8+3⁄4 in (13.3 m) |
| Depth of hold | 17 ft 6 in (5.3 m) |
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| Armament | 30 × 12-pounder guns[4] |
Hindostan was an East Indiaman of the East India Company. She was a large vessel of 1,463 tons (bm), launched in 1796 to replace a previous Hindostan that the Royal Navy had bought and turned into a Fourth Rate ship of the line. Her owner was Robert Williams, M.P., who had been the owner of the previous Hindostan.
She made three complete voyages.[5] She was lost on her fourth voyage, wrecking at Margate in January 1803.
- ^ British Library:Hindostan (2).
- ^ House of Commons (1830), p. 978.
- ^ Hackman (2001), p. 128.
- ^ a b Letter of Marque"War of 1812: UK sources for Privateers". Archived from the original on 9 July 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2015. - accessed 15 May 2011.
- ^ Hardy (1811).