Compass

English East India Company Lost Ships
(vessel names beginning with letter
B)

Important note

[Date: September 2003]

This page is from my old website, and information here is incomplete, but may be of some use if you are seeking very basic details.

It will be updated and expanded in due course when the voyages part of the database is finished.

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VESSEL TONS CAPTAIN YEAR
LOST
LOCATION
Bedford 800 John Hudson 1697  
Bengal 818 Richard Sharp 1809 off Mauritius
Bengal 950 George Nicholls 1815 at Pointe de Galle
Berkeley Castle 650 Sam Hyde 1694 Brest
Berrington 440   1729 going into Bombay
Blandford 606 Peter Pigou 1783 off Gangam
Blenheim 250   1712 at Bussorah (al Basrah), Euphrates River
Bombay Frigate 300   1706 on coast of Malabar
Borneo Merchant 600   1687 at Fort St George, Madras
Brilliant 703 Charles Mears 1782 On rock nr Saddle Island, SW of Anjouan
Britannia 770 Jonathan Birch 1805 Brazil
Britannia 1200 Jonathan Birch 1809 off South Foreland
Brunswick 1200 James Ludovic Grant 1805 off Pointe de Galle