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From: "Sylvia Murphy" <>
Subject: Re: [India-L] Hugh Inglis Ship
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 09:05:55 +1000
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> Where would the Hugh Inglis have sailed from.
Not from Scotland, I don't think!

From Jean Sutton's "Lords of the East"
p.87 "Every year between early September and late Frebruary succesive fleets
of ships taken up by the Copany anchored first in Long Reach then at
Gravesend to take in supplies. Scores of lighters - some belonging to the
Company bringing cargo and treasure from its wharves in London, some hired
by the hudbands or suppliers carrying stores and provisions - plied up and
down the 20 or so miles of river between London and Gravesend."

However, it appears that HM army recruits were taken on board from near
Protsmouth & the Isle of Wight:
"In Jan 1805 the Earl of Abergavenny, Capt. John Wordsworth bound to Bengal
and China, anchored on the motherbank close to the new depot on the Isle of
Wight where recruits waited to embark."

Incidentally, the Hugh Inglis was a ship of 1200 tons which made 6 journeys
between 1799 and 1822. [obviously, a good strong well built ship]

Sylvia C M Murphy
P O Box 2379 Carlingford Court
NSW 2118, Australia
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