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General Gascoyne | Official Number
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General Gascoyne | Official Number
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The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday,
4th January 1831;
" On the 1st of January, was launched from the building yard
of Messrs.T.Peile and Co. a large vessel (of ship rigg) called the General
Gascoyne, of the burthen of 319 tons registered, built for Mr.Isaac
Fisher, and intended for the West Indiia trade."
The General Gascoyne was built at Workington. She spent first two years in the trade to the Caribbean, then became a licensed
India ship (licensed to the Honourable East India Company). She was lost on her only voyage to India.
The General Gascoyne, bound from Calcutta for Mauritius (Isle of France), was
one of several HEIC ships wrecked during a hurricane in the Bay of Bengal on the
22nd May 1833. She went ashore near the Kedgeree lighthouse, alongside
the Eamont and near the Lord Amherst.
The Preston Chronicle, Saturday, 5th October, 1833;
"HURRICANE IN THE EAST INDIES - Extract of a letter from Captain
Fisher, of the General Gascoyne, dated Kidgeree Roads, 28th May, 1833:
" A heavy gale set in at N.E. and concluded with a violent hurricane
from about East to E.S.E.; we went on shore about noon on the 22nd. The
country is completely inundated for many miles, not a native village
left standing, and some hundreds of the inhabitants destroyed; men,
women and children, with cattle, sheep, pigs, &c., lying in all
directions. Every ship in this quarter is up in the paddy filelds. The
H.C.'s ship Duke of York, 1306 tons, is totally wrecked:- the Lord
Amherst is in the same state:- the General Gascoyne, Eamont, and
Robert, nearly altogether in a bad state: - the Sultan has gone to
pieces, and all hands lost. The distress of the natives is most heart
rending, they are without any food or fresh water; indeed it is
impossible to describe their situation. There is not a house within
many miles of us except the post-office, and it has been so much
injured that it is entirely deserted."
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