HCS Intrepid (1780)
History | |
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Great Britain | |
Name | HCS Intrepid |
Owner | British East India Company |
Builder | Bombay Dockyard[1] |
Launched | 1780[1] |
Fate | Foundered without a trace circa 1802 |
General characteristics | |
Tons burthen | (bm) |
Complement | 40 Europeans and about 40 lascars (1800) |
Armament |
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The H[onourable] C[ompany's] S[hip] Intrepid was launched in 1780 by the
Career
The Dutch government at Malacca arranged with the British government to turn Malacca over to the British rather than the having the Batavian Government, allies of the French, take possession. The British sent an expedition from Bengal that arrived off Malacca on 15 August 1795. HMS Resistance arrived on the 17th, and the operation began that morning. Intrepid was one of the British vessels that participated.[2]
On 10 June 1797 Intrepid captured the Dutch settlement of Kupang, Timor, in cooperation with Resistance. Lieutenant Frost of Intrepid was sent ashore to become acting-governor of the settlement, but the native population rose up against him and he narrowly escaped, with sixteen sepoys and seamen being killed. Resistance then bombarded Kupang into submission and sent a strong landing party ashore, destroying much of the town before abandoning it.[3]
On 22 November 1800 Intrepid, under the command of Captain George Hall, was returning to India from
Fate
Later in October 1800
The EIC sent two vessels, Intrepid, Captain George Roper, and HCS Comet, Lieutenant William Henry, from Bombay to the Paracel Islands to search for the cause of Earl Talbot's loss and to pick up any possible survivors.[7] In February 1802 reports had reached London that although the two vessels had made many discoveries relating to natural history and geography, and had seen wreckage of other vessels on uninhabited islands, they had found nothing further concerning Lord Eldon.
The two vessels were still listed on the establishment of the Bombay Marine as of 1 January 1802.[8] However, by 1803, there was a recognition that both Intrepid and Comet had disappeared without a trace. They were presumed to have foundered at sea.[9]
See also
Citations
- ^ a b c Wadia (1986), p. 333.
- ^ "No. 15754". The London Gazette. 13 November 1804. p. 1399.
- ^ Macleod (1872), pp. 77–78.
- ^ Low (1877), pp. 209–210.
- ^ Naval Chronicle, Vol.6, p=77.
- ^ Grocott (1997), p. 101.
- ^ Hackman (2001), pp. 102–3.
- ^ Low (1877), p. 216.
- ^ Low (1877), p. 210.
References
- Grocott, Terence (1997). Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras. London: Chatham. ISBN 1861760302.
- Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.
- Low, Charles Rathbone (1877). History of the Indian Navy: (1613-1863). R. Bentley and son.
- Macleod, A. (1872). On India. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Wadia, R. A. (1986) [1957]. The Bombay Dockyard and the Wadia Master Builders. Bombay.
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