Warren Hastings was a three-decker East Indiaman, launched in 1802. The French captured her in 1805, during her second voyage for the East India Company and sold her to Danish owners. The British recaptured her in January 1808,[1] and within a year thereafter she was again in her former owner's hands. She then made several more voyages for the company.
Career
First EIC voyage (1803–1804)
Captain Thomas Larkins sailed Warren Hasting for China, leaving The Downs on 6 April 1803, and arriving at Whampoa on 28 August.[2] Before she arrived she rescued a dozen or so Chinese sailors. A gale had caught their three "tchuans" and sunk them, causing the loss of some 500 people. The same gale had also caught the East Indiaman Houghton, causing her loss, together with that of the 120 or so people aboard her.[3]