Namesake Hooghly River Launched 31 March 1819 | Fate Sank in 1863 Builder Deptford | |
Name Hooghly, Hoogley, or Hooghley Owner EIC voyage #1 John W Buckle
EIC voyage #2 2 Buckle & Co. Port of registry London (Official Number 13680) Tons burthen 442,466, 480, or 550 (bm) | ||
Hooghly was a full-rigged merchant ship built on the Thames, England, and launched in 1819. She made two voyages under charter to the British East India Company (EIC), four voyages transporting convicts from England and Ireland to Australia, as well as voyages transporting emigrants to South Australia between 1839-1856. Around 1858 she was re-rigged as a barque. She sank off Algiers in 1863.
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Career
Captain James Thomas Lamb sailed from the Downs on 27 May 1819, bound for Bengal. Hooghly then reached Calcutta on 23 September. Homeward bound, she passed Kedgeree on 1 January 1820. She then reached the Cape of Good Hope on 3 March and St Helena on 5 April, before arriving back at the Downs on 30 May.
Under the command of Peter Reeves and surgeon Robert Tainsh, she left Cork, Ireland on 5 January 1825, arriving in Sydney, New South Wales on 22 April. She embarked 195 male convicts, of whom two died en route. Hooghly departed Port Jackson on 21 May bound for Bombay.
On her second convict voyage under the command of Peter Reeves and surgeon Alexander Nisbet, she left London, England on 5 November 1827, arriving in Sydney on 24 February 1828. She embarked 99 male convicts, all of whom arrived. Hooghly departed Port Jackson on 4 April, bound for Batavia.
Hooghly arrived in Clarence, off Garden Island, Western Australia on 13 February 1830, bringing settlers. She left Perth in March 1830 bound for London via Singapore, with steerage passengers.
Her next convict voyage was under the command of Peter John Reeves and surgeon James Ellis. Hooghly left Cork, Ireland on 24 June 1831 and arrived in Sydney on 27 September. She embarked 184 female convicts and had no convict deaths en route. Hooghly departed Port Jackson on 22 October, bound for China and London. The departing former Governor of New South Wales, Sir Ralph Darling, was a passenger on the vessel.
Captain Reeves and Hooghly left China on 16 January 1832. They reached St Helena on 8 April, and arrived at the Downs on 31 May.
On her fourth convict voyage under the command of George Bayly and surgeon James Rutherford, she left Portsmouth, England on 28 July 1834, arriving in Sydney on 18 November. She disembarked her full complement of 260 male convicts.
Hooghly carried migrants to South Australia in six voyages between 1836 and 1856. She also sailed from Cork, Ireland to Jackson Bay, New South Wales with Irish migrants. In 1842 she sailed from Calcutta to Van Diemen’s Land with prisoners and a cargo of horses.
Fate
While on a voyage to Cork, Ireland, from Constantinople, Hooghly foundered off Algiers on 10 December 1863. After the crew safely abandoned her the British steamship Ida rescued them, landing them at Gibraltar five days later.