Bengalee (ship)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	Bengalee
Port of registry:	Greenock:3 June 1837[1] Whitehaven:1840[1]
Builder:	Archibald P McFarlane Jnr & Co., Dumbarton[1]
Launched:	1837
Fate:	Wrecked 23 October 1851
General characteristics
Tons burthen:	Old Act: 304[2] (bm) New Act (post 1836): 354[2] (bm)
Length:	101 ft 2 in (30.8 m)[1]
Beam:	23 ft 0 in (7.0 m)[1]
Depth:	17 ft 7 in (5.4 m)[1]

Bengalee was a three-masted merchant barque built in 1837 at Dumbarton. She first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1838 with Hamlin, master, Hamlin and Company, of Greenock, owners, and trade Clyde–Calcutta.^[2] Captain Thomas Hamlin did not allow the consumption of alcohol on his ship, thus it was known as a temperance ship.

Voyages

• Hamburg to Port Adelaide, South Australia. Bengalee left Hamburg on 16 July 1838 and stopped at the Downs. She arrived at Kingscote, South Australia on 9 November and at Port Adelaide on 16 November. Although primarily carrying supplies, she also carried 27 passengers, among whom were a group of the first Prussian settlers to Australia . From Port Adelaide she sailed on 29 February 1839 to Batavia.
• Calcutta to Liverpool - arrived 16 December 1839
• ??? to Sydney - arrived 26 June 1840
• Hobart Town to Canton - arrived 3 November 1843

Fate

Bengalee was driven ashore on 23 October 1851 and broke her back at Saugor. Her crew abandoned her. She was on a voyage from Calcutta to Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia.^[3]

Citations

References

• "Ships arriving in South Australia 1838", Pioneers Association of South Australia
• "Shipping Arrivals", South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society Inc
• "Bengalee", Private homepage of Graeme Moad
• "Bengalee 1838", Private webpages of DIANE CUMMINGS
• "Australian shipping 1788-1968", Convictions: Australian Shipping on the net

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