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Great Britain
Name	Shah Ardaseer
Builder	Bombay Dockyard
Launched	c.1786
Fate	Burnt 13 September 1809
General characteristics
Tons burthen	86013⁄94, or 868, or 900 (bm)
Armament	2 × 9-pounder guns + 22 × 12-pounder guns "Of the New Construction"
Notes	Three decks; teak built
Great Britain
Name	HMS Arrogant
Acquired	7 August 1810
Fate	Sold 1842
General characteristics
Tons burthen	1,439 (bm)

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Shah Ardaseer was built at Bombay, probably in 1786 (see below). English transliterations of her name show her as Shah or Shaw + Adaseer, or Ardaseer, or Ardasier, or Adasier, or Ardasheer, or Ardeseer, or Ardesir. A fire on 13 September 1809 at Bombay burnt her. She then may have been recovered, repaired, and enlarged to become the hulk HMS Arrogant, which was moved to Trincomalee in 1822 and sold there in 1842.

Career

Shah Ardaseer was built in Bombay in 1784,^[5] 1786,^[6] or 1787,^[7]^[8]^[9] or 1788;^[10]^[11] although there are more citations for 1787, it is not clear that they represent independent information. She was primarily a "country ship", that is, she primarily traded east of the Cape of Good Hope, thus not trespassing on the British East India Company's monopoly on the trade between Britain and the Far East.

Shaw Addesseer was among several vessels reported as arriving at Canton from Bombay in July 1789 and returning in December, under Captain Ramsay^[12] James Callander, formerly master of Sultan, then commanded her to China, departing Bombay 22 May 1790.^[13] Callander and his partner Collins had a trading business based in Calcutta, and for the following four years Callander commanded her voyages between Calcutta, Madras and other ports in the Bay of Bengal, carrying sundry goods but at least once troops.^[14]

Shaw Ardasier gained wider fame in 1793 when dramatic reports reached London of the killing by a tiger of a son of Sir Hector Munro of Novar, while the ship was lying off Saugur Island at the mouth of the Hooghly River.^[15] The Calcutta Gazette carried the story, but also reported that Shaw Ardasier had arrived at Madras on 4 January "after a quick and pleasant voyage".^[16]

A reference to Ardesier as being in Batavia in November 1793, returning from Botany Bay under Captain Bampton,^[17] probably confused her with Shah Hormuzeer, which Bampton navigated through Torres Strait in that year.^[18]

Callander of Shah Ardaseer was listed among the captains of a proposed China fleet in May 1794,^[19] but when the fleet eventually sailed in July her master was J. Nimmo.^[20] Callander instead took Eliza to Penang, but in August 1794 Revenge, a French privateer, captured her and sent her to Mauritius. In turn HMS Resistance captured Revenge; Callander returned to Madras on Resistance.^[21] Thereafter Callander was master of Betsey until accumulating debts forced him to flee Calcutta, and Betsey and its contents were auctioned.^[22]^[23]

In 1798 Shaw Ardasher's master was W[illiam] Dawson and her owner Dady Nasserwanjee.^[24]

Notwithstanding its status as a country ship, Shaw Ardasher did visit England. She entered the Registry of Great Britain on 31 August 1799.^[1] Ardaseer then appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1800 with Maughan, master, Adamson, owner, and trade London–India.^[3] (LR and the Register of Shipping carried this data unchanged into 1806.)

On 29 December 1799, Shaw Ardaseer, Smith, master, sailed from Gravesend, bound for India.^[25]

Lloyd's List reported on 30 May 1800 that Shaw Ardrasier had run down and sunk Westmoreland, Ayre, master. Westmoreland was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Grenada. Her crew was saved.^[26]

The government in India, in preparation for sending an expedition to the Red Sea, engaged three country ships, Shaw Ardesir, Cumbrian, and Minerva, and commissioned them on terms that would permit them to share in prize money.^[27]

Shah Ardasheer then served as a transport to support General Sir David Baird's expedition to the Red Sea,^[28] which in turn had the objective of supporting General Sir Ralph Abercrombie at the battle of Alexandria.

In 1803 Shaw Ardeseer appeared in a list of vessels registered at Bombay. Her master was Thomas Maughan, and her owner Dady Nasserwanjee.^[29] She spent much of her time sailing between Bombay and Canton in the cotton trade.

On 10 January 1805 Ardaseer shoaled on a bank at 10°35′N 107°45′E / 10.583°N 107.750°E / 10.583; 107.750.^[30]

Fate

In September 1809 Shah Ardasheer was at Bombay loading a cargo for London. Her owners had arranged insurance of £124,440 for her and her cargo for the voyage. The insurance policy was completed on 27 December 1809.^[31] However, by that time she had already burnt at Bombay.

In the night of 13 September 1809 Shah Ardasheer caught fire. An alarm was raised and Mr. Kempt, the chief officer, hailed the warships around her for help. Captain Wainright of HMS Iphigenia, responded with 100 men, buckets, and an "engine". HMS Chiffonne and Teignmouth also sent men. Despite their efforts, Ardaseer could not be saved. Unable to stop the fire, the rescuers scuttled her in the harbour.^[32] Lloyd's List reported that she had burnt in Bombay Harbour and that half her cargo had been on board.^[33]

HMS Arrogant

From 1804 to 1810, when she was broken up, HMS Arrogant had sat in Bombay harbour as a floating battery, receiving ship and then sheer hulk. The Admiralty ordered the purchase of the mercantile Ardaseir.^[4] Admiral Drury renamed the purchased vessel HMS Arrogant and decided to use her as a floating hospital.^[34]

There is no record of the construction at Bombay Dockyard of an Ardesir in 1810.^[35] This raises the possibility that Arrogant was Shah Ardasheer raised and rebuilt, which would also account for the increase in burthen.^{[original research?]}

HMS Arrogant was registered as a third rate in 1827. She was moved to Trincomalee on 19 November 1822. (She may have been hulked there earlier as she described in 1819 as a hulk there.^[11]) She was sold in 1842.

Citations

^ ^a ^b House of Commons (1814), p. 86.
^ Mathison, John (1802). "A List of Merchant Ships belonging to the Port of Bombay". А New Oriental Register, and East India Directory for 1802. Leadenhall Street, London: Black's and Parry. p. 218. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c LR (1800), Seq.№530.
^ ^a ^b Winfield (2008), p. 403.
^ Hackman (2001), p. 243.
^ Reports... (1809), p.242
^ Phipps (1840), p. 168.
^ Low (1877), p. 538.
^ Wadia (1986), p. 334.
^ Bulley (2000), p. 181.
^ ^a ^b "The Asiatic Journal for November 1819: Comparative Strength of Ships built in Different Parts of India (Bombay Gazette)". The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and its Dependencies. Vol. 8. Leadenhall Street, London: William H. Allen and Company. 1819. p. 447. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ "The Calcutta Gazette". Calcutta. 11 February 1790. pp. 1–8.
^ "The Calcutta Gazette". Calcutta. 24 June 1790. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ "The Calcutta Gazette". Calcutta. 5 July 1792. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ Seton-Karr, Walter Scott (1865). ""The 3rd January 1793: Extract from a letter from a passenger on board the "Ardaseer," dated Cox's Island, December 22nd, 1792"". Selections from Calcutta Gazettes of the Years 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, and 1797: Showing the Political and Social Condition of the English in India, Seventy Years Ago. Vol. 2. Calcutta: O. T. Cutter, Military Orphan Press. pp. 359–360. Retrieved 21 April 2022. when, in the midst of our merriment, surrounded by dandees cutting wood, and ourselves not a little noisy, an exceeding large and ferocious royal tiger rushed in among us from the jungle at our backs, and, to the unspeakable horror and grief of us all, seized on the much-regretted Munro, and carried him off, though neither of us were three yards distant at the time.
^ "The Calcutta Gazette". Calcutta. 24 January 1793. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ "Calcutta Gazette". Calcutta. 6 February 1794. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ Kaye, Stuart (1997). "Historical Background of the Torres Strait: British Exploration to the 1860s". The Torres Strait. Springer Netherlands. p. 33. ISBN 9789041105066. Retrieved 21 April 2022. In fact, the next transit of Torres Strait was by two merchantmen, the Shah Hormuzeer under William Bampton and the Chesterfield under M. B. Alt, both bound from Sydney to India in 1793.
^ "The Madras Courier". Madras. 23 May 1794. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ "The Calcutta Gazette". Calcutta. 28 August 1794. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ "The Calcutta Gazette". 18 September 1794. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ "The Calcutta Gazette". Calcutta. 22 September 1796. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ Robb (2011), p. 213.
^ The Bombay Almanack, and Register, for ... 1798. The British Library, London: John Turner. 1798. p. 108. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ Lloyd's List (LL) №4011, Ship arrivals and departure (SAD) data.
^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (4054). 30 May 1800.
^ Bulley (2000), p. 69.
^ House of Commons (1814), p. 655.
^ "List of Merchant Vessels". East-India register and directory. 1803. Princeton University: Cox, Son and Baylis. 1803. p. 270. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ "Cochin-China". The Naval chronicle v.29 (From January to June). Vol. 29. London: J. Gold. 1813. p. 429. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ "Report from the Select Committee on Marine Insurance; (Sess. 1810): Appendix". Reports from Committees. Vol. 7. Bodleian Library, Oxford. 1824. p. 46. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ "Loss of the Ship Ardeseer, by fire". The Naval Chronicle. Vol. 23. London: Joyce Gold. 1810. pp. 279–280. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4425. 23 January 1810. hdl:2027/hvd.32044105232938. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
^ Parkinson (1954), p. 356.
^ Wadia (1986), pp. 338–339.

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Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.
House of Commons, Parliament, Great Britain (1814). Minutes of the Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on Petitions Relating to East-India-Built Shipping. H.M. Stationery Office.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Low, Charles Rathbone (1877). History of the Indian Navy: (1613-1863). R. Bentley and son.
Parkinson, Cyril Northcote (1954). War in the Eastern Seas, 1793—1815. George Allen & Unwin.
Phipps, John (1840). A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time ... Scott.
Reports and Papers on the Impolicy of Employing Indian Built Ships in the Trade of the East-India Company, and of Admitting Them to British Registry: With Observation on Its Injurious Consequences to the Landed and Shipping Interests, and to the Numerous Branches of Trade Dependent on the Building and Equipment of British-built Ships. (1809). (London:Blacks and Parry).
Robb, Peter (2011). Sentiment and Self: Richard Blechynden's Calcutta Diaries, 1791–1822. Oxford. ISBN 978-0199088607.
Wadia, R. A. (1986) [1957]. The Bombay Dockyard and the Wadia Master Builders. Bombay.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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[FOOTNOTEHouse_of_Commons181486-1] House of Commons (1814), p. 86.

[2] Mathison, John (1802). "A List of Merchant Ships belonging to the Port of Bombay". А New Oriental Register, and East India Directory for 1802. Leadenhall Street, London: Black's and Parry. p. 218. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[LR1800-3] LR (1800), Seq.№530.

[FOOTNOTEWinfield2008403-4] Winfield (2008), p. 403.

[FOOTNOTEHackman2001243-5] Hackman (2001), p. 243.

[6] Reports... (1809), p.242

[FOOTNOTEPhipps1840168-7] Phipps (1840), p. 168.

[FOOTNOTELow1877538-8] Low (1877), p. 538.

[FOOTNOTEWadia1986334-9] Wadia (1986), p. 334.

[FOOTNOTEBulley2000181-10] Bulley (2000), p. 181.

[Comparative-11] "The Asiatic Journal for November 1819: Comparative Strength of Ships built in Different Parts of India (Bombay Gazette)". The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and its Dependencies. Vol. 8. Leadenhall Street, London: William H. Allen and Company. 1819. p. 447. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[12] "The Calcutta Gazette". Calcutta. 11 February 1790. pp. 1–8.

[13] "The Calcutta Gazette". Calcutta. 24 June 1790. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[14] "The Calcutta Gazette". Calcutta. 5 July 1792. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[15] Seton-Karr, Walter Scott (1865). ""The 3rd January 1793: Extract from a letter from a passenger on board the "Ardaseer," dated Cox's Island, December 22nd, 1792"". Selections from Calcutta Gazettes of the Years 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, and 1797: Showing the Political and Social Condition of the English in India, Seventy Years Ago. Vol. 2. Calcutta: O. T. Cutter, Military Orphan Press. pp. 359–360. Retrieved 21 April 2022. when, in the midst of our merriment, surrounded by dandees cutting wood, and ourselves not a little noisy, an exceeding large and ferocious royal tiger rushed in among us from the jungle at our backs, and, to the unspeakable horror and grief of us all, seized on the much-regretted Munro, and carried him off, though neither of us were three yards distant at the time.

[16] "The Calcutta Gazette". Calcutta. 24 January 1793. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[17] "Calcutta Gazette". Calcutta. 6 February 1794. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[18] Kaye, Stuart (1997). "Historical Background of the Torres Strait: British Exploration to the 1860s". The Torres Strait. Springer Netherlands. p. 33. ISBN 9789041105066. Retrieved 21 April 2022. In fact, the next transit of Torres Strait was by two merchantmen, the Shah Hormuzeer under William Bampton and the Chesterfield under M. B. Alt, both bound from Sydney to India in 1793.

[19] "The Madras Courier". Madras. 23 May 1794. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[20] "The Calcutta Gazette". Calcutta. 28 August 1794. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[21] "The Calcutta Gazette". 18 September 1794. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[22] "The Calcutta Gazette". Calcutta. 22 September 1796. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[FOOTNOTERobb2011213-23] Robb (2011), p. 213.

[24] The Bombay Almanack, and Register, for ... 1798. The British Library, London: John Turner. 1798. p. 108. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[25] Lloyd's List (LL) №4011, Ship arrivals and departure (SAD) data.

[LL300500-26] "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (4054). 30 May 1800.

[FOOTNOTEBulley200069-27] Bulley (2000), p. 69.

[FOOTNOTEHouse_of_Commons1814655-28] House of Commons (1814), p. 655.

[29] "List of Merchant Vessels". East-India register and directory. 1803. Princeton University: Cox, Son and Baylis. 1803. p. 270. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[30] "Cochin-China". The Naval chronicle v.29 (From January to June). Vol. 29. London: J. Gold. 1813. p. 429. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[31] "Report from the Select Committee on Marine Insurance; (Sess. 1810): Appendix". Reports from Committees. Vol. 7. Bodleian Library, Oxford. 1824. p. 46. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[32] "Loss of the Ship Ardeseer, by fire". The Naval Chronicle. Vol. 23. London: Joyce Gold. 1810. pp. 279–280. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[33] "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4425. 23 January 1810. hdl:2027/hvd.32044105232938. Retrieved 2 February 2021.

[FOOTNOTEParkinson1954356-34] Parkinson (1954), p. 356.

[FOOTNOTEWadia1986338–339-35] Wadia (1986), pp. 338–339.

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 '''''Shah Ardaseer''''' was built at [[Mumbai|Bombay]], probably in 1786 (see below). English transliterations of her name show her as '''''Shah''''' or '''''Shaw''''' + '''''Adaseer''''', or ''''' Ardaseer''''', or '''''Ardasier''''', or '''''Adasier''''', or '''''Ardasheer''''', or '''''Ardeseer''''', or '''''Ardesir'''''. A fire on 13 September 1809 at [[Mumbai|Bombay]] burnt her. She then may have been recovered, repaired, and enlarged to become the hulk HMS ''Arrogant'', which was moved to [[Trincomalee]] in 1822 and sold there in 1842.
 ==Career==
-''Shah Ardaseer'' was built in Bombay in 1784,{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=243}} 1786,<ref>''Reports...'' (1809), p.242</ref> or 1787,{{sfnp|Phipps|1840|p=168}}{{sfnp|Low|1877|p=538}}{{sfnp|Wadia|1986|p=334}} or 1788;{{sfnp|Bulley|2000|p=181}} although there are more citations for 1787, it is not clear that they represent independent information. She was primarily a "country ship", that is, she primarily traded east of the [[Cape of Good Hope]], thus not trespassing on the British [[East India Company]]'s monopoly on the trade between Britain and the Far East.
+''Shah Ardaseer'' was built in Bombay in 1784,{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=243}} 1786,<ref>''Reports...'' (1809), p.242</ref> or 1787,{{sfnp|Phipps|1840|p=168}}{{sfnp|Low|1877|p=538}}{{sfnp|Wadia|1986|p=334}} or 1788;{{sfnp|Bulley|2000|p=181}}<ref name="Comparative">{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kVgz_W_YBqUC&pg=PA447 |title=The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and its Dependencies |publisher=William H. Allen and Company |year=1819 |volume=8 |location=Leadenhall Street, London |pages=447 |chapter=The Asiatic Journal for November 1819: Comparative Strength of Ships built in Different Parts of India (Bombay Gazette) |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref> although there are more citations for 1787, it is not clear that they represent independent information. She was primarily a "country ship", that is, she primarily traded east of the [[Cape of Good Hope]], thus not trespassing on the British [[East India Company]]'s monopoly on the trade between Britain and the Far East.
-''Shaw Addesseer'' was among several vessels reported as arriving at Canton from Bombay in July 1789 and returning in December, under Captain Ramsay<ref>.{{List journal |journal=Calcutta Gazette |date=February 11, 1790}}</ref> James Callander, formerly master of ''Sultan'', then commanded her to China, departing Bombay 22 May 1790.<ref>{{List journal |journal=Calcutta Gazette |date=June 24, 1790}}</ref> Callander and his partner Collins had a trading business based in Calcutta, and for the following four years Callander commanded her voyages between Calcutta, Madras and other ports in the Bay of Bengal, carrying sundry goods but at least once troops.<ref>{{List journal |journal=Calcutta Gazette |date=July 5, 1792}}</ref>
+''Shaw Addesseer'' was among several vessels reported as arriving at Canton from Bombay in July 1789 and returning in December, under Captain Ramsay<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 February 1790 |title=The Calcutta Gazette |pages=1–8 |publication-place=Calcutta |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1790-02-11?NewspaperTitle=Calcutta%2BGazette&IssueId=BL%2F0002676%2F17900211%2F&County=West%20Bengal%2C%20India |url-access=subscription}}</ref> James Callander, formerly master of ''Sultan'', then commanded her to China, departing Bombay 22 May 1790.<ref>{{Cite news |date=24 June 1790 |title=The Calcutta Gazette |location=Calcutta |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1790-06-24?NewspaperTitle=Calcutta%2BGazette&IssueId=BL%2F0002676%2F17900624%2F&County=West%20Bengal%2C%20India |url-access=subscription |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref> Callander and his partner Collins had a trading business based in Calcutta, and for the following four years Callander commanded her voyages between Calcutta, Madras and other ports in the Bay of Bengal, carrying sundry goods but at least once troops.<ref>{{Cite news |date=5 July 1792 |title=The Calcutta Gazette |location=Calcutta |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1792-07-05?NewspaperTitle=Calcutta%2BGazette&IssueId=BL%2F0002677%2F17920705%2F&County=West%20Bengal%2C%20India |url-access=subscription |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref>
-''Shaw Ardasier'' gained wider fame in 1793 when dramatic reports reached London of the killing by a tiger of a son of [[Hector Munro of Novar#Family|Sir Hector Munro of Novar]], while the ship was lying off Saugur Island at the mouth of the Hooghly River. The ''Calcutta Gazette'' carried the story, but also reported that ''Shaw Ardasier'' had arrived at Madras on 4th January “after a quick and pleasant voyage”.<ref>{{List journal |journal=Calcutta Gazette |date=January 24, 1793}}</ref>
+''Shaw Ardasier'' gained wider fame in 1793 when dramatic reports reached London of the killing by a tiger of a son of [[Hector Munro of Novar#Family|Sir Hector Munro of Novar]], while the ship was lying off [[Sagar Island|Saugur Island]] at the mouth of the Hooghly River.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Seton-Karr |first=Walter Scott |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v0gOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA359 |title=Selections from Calcutta Gazettes of the Years 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, and 1797: Showing the Political and Social Condition of the English in India, Seventy Years Ago |publisher=O. T. Cutter, Military Orphan Press |year=1865 |volume=2 |location=Calcutta |pages=359–360 |chapter="The 3rd January 1793: Extract from a letter from a passenger on board the "Ardaseer," dated Cox's Island, December 22nd, 1792" |quote="when, in the midst of our merriment, surrounded by dandees cutting wood, and ourselves not a little noisy, an exceeding large and ferocious royal tiger rushed in among us from the jungle at our backs, and, to the unspeakable horror and grief of us all, seized on the much-regretted Munro, and carried him off, though neither of us were three yards distant at the time." |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref> The ''Calcutta Gazette'' carried the story, but also reported that ''Shaw Ardasier'' had arrived at Madras on 4 January "after a quick and pleasant voyage".<ref>{{Cite news |date=24 January 1793 |title=The Calcutta Gazette |location=Calcutta |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1793-01-24?NewspaperTitle=Calcutta%2BGazette&IssueId=BL%2F0002677%2F17930124%2F&County=West%20Bengal%2C%20India |url-access=subscription |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref>
-A reference to ''Ardesier'' as being in Batavia in November 1793, returning from Botany Bay under Captain Bampton,<ref>{{List journal |journal=Calcutta Gazette |date=February 6, 1794}}</ref> probably confused her with Bampton's ship ''Shah Hormuzeer'' in which Bampton navigated the Torres Strait in that year.
+A reference to ''Ardesier'' as being in Batavia in November 1793, returning from Botany Bay under Captain Bampton,<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 February 1794 |title=Calcutta Gazette |location=Calcutta |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1794-02-06?NewspaperTitle=Calcutta%2BGazette&IssueId=BL%2F0002677%2F17940206%2F&County=West%20Bengal%2C%20India |url-access=subscription |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref> probably confused her with ''Shah Hormuzeer'', which Bampton navigated through Torres Strait in that year.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kaye |first=Stuart |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_TnFnB7oiBgC&pg=PA33 |title=The Torres Strait |publisher=Springer Netherlands |year=1997 |isbn=9789041105066 |pages=33 |chapter=Historical Background of the Torres Strait: British Exploration to the 1860s |quote="In fact, the next transit of Torres Strait was by two merchantmen, the Shah Hormuzeer under William Bampton and the Chesterfield under M. B. Alt, both bound from Sydney to India in 1793." |author-link=Stuart Kaye |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref>
-Callander of ''Shah Ardaseer'' was listed among the captains of a proposed China fleet in May 1794,<ref>{{List journal |journal=Madras Courier |date=May 23, 1794}}</ref> but when the fleet eventually sailed in July her master was J. Nimmo.<ref>{{List journal |journal=Calcutta Gazette |date=August 28, 1794}}</ref> Callander instead took the ''Eliza'' to Penang, but in August 1794 she was captured by ''Revenge'', a French privateer, and sent to Mauritius. ''Revenge'' was in turn captured by ''Resistance''; Callander returned to Madras o ''Resistane''.<ref>{{List journal |journal=Calcutta Gazette |date=September 18, 1794}}</ref> Thereafter Callander was master of ''Betsey'' until accumulating debts forced him to flee Calcutta, and ''Betsey'' and its contents were auctioned.<ref>{{List journal |journal=Calcutta Gazette |date=September 22, 1796}}</ref>{{sfnp|Robb|2011|p=213}}
+Callander of ''Shah Ardaseer'' was listed among the captains of a proposed China fleet in May 1794,<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 May 1794 |title=The Madras Courier |location=Madras |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1794-05-23?NewspaperTitle=Madras%2BCourier&IssueId=BL%2F0002924%2F17940523%2F&County=Tamil%20Nadu%2C%20India |url-access=subscription |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref> but when the fleet eventually sailed in July her master was J. Nimmo.<ref>{{Cite news |date=28 August 1794 |title=The Calcutta Gazette |location=Calcutta |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1794-08-28?NewspaperTitle=Calcutta%2BGazette&IssueId=BL%2F0002677%2F17940828%2F&County=West%20Bengal%2C%20India |url-access=subscription |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref> Callander instead took ''Eliza'' to Penang, but in August 1794 ''Revenge'', a French privateer, captured her and sent her to Mauritius. In turn {{HMS|Resistance|1782|6}} captured ''Revenge''; Callander returned to Madras on ''Resistance''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 September 1794 |title=The Calcutta Gazette |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1794-09-18?NewspaperTitle=Calcutta%2BGazette&IssueId=BL%2F0002677%2F17940918%2F&County=West%20Bengal%2C%20India |url-access=subscription |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref> Thereafter Callander was master of ''Betsey'' until accumulating debts forced him to flee Calcutta, and ''Betsey'' and its contents were auctioned.<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 September 1796 |title=The Calcutta Gazette |location=Calcutta |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1796-09-22?NewspaperTitle=Calcutta%2BGazette&IssueId=BL%2F0002677%2F17960922%2F&County=West%20Bengal%2C%20India |url-access=subscription |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref>{{sfnp|Robb|2011|p=213}}
-In 1798 ''Shaw Ardasher''{{'}}s master was W[illiam] Dawson and her owner Dady Nasserwanjee.<ref>''Bombay Almanack and Register...for 1798'', p.101.</ref>
+In 1798 ''Shaw Ardasher''{{'}}s master was W[illiam] Dawson and her owner Dady Nasserwanjee.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKdkAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA108 |title=The Bombay Almanack, and Register, for ... 1798 |publisher=John Turner |year=1798 |location=The British Library, London |pages=108 |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref>
-Notwithstanding its status as a country ship, ''Shaw Ardasher'' did visit England. She entered the Registry of Great Britain on 31 August 1799.{{sfnp|Select...|1814|p=86}} ''Ardaseer'' then appeared in ''[[Lloyd's Register]]'' (''LR'') in 1800 with Maughan, master, Adamson, owner, and trade London–India.<ref name=LR1800>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015065522479?urlappend=%3Bseq=33 ''LR'' (1800), Seq.№530.]</ref> (''LR'' and the ''Register of Shipping'' carried this data unchanged into 1806.)
+Notwithstanding its status as a country ship, ''Shaw Ardasher'' did visit England. She entered the Registry of Great Britain on 31 August 1799.{{Sfnp|House of Commons|1814|p=86}} ''Ardaseer'' then appeared in ''[[Lloyd's Register]]'' (''LR'') in 1800 with Maughan, master, Adamson, owner, and trade London–India.<ref name=LR1800>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015065522479?urlappend=%3Bseq=33 ''LR'' (1800), Seq.№530.]</ref> (''LR'' and the ''Register of Shipping'' carried this data unchanged into 1806.)
-On 29 December 1799, ''Shaw Ardaseer'', Smith, master, sailed from Gravesend, bound for India.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c3049070?urlappend=%3Bseq=238 ''[[Lloyd's List]]'' (''LL'') №4011, Ship arrivals and departure (SAD) data.]</ref>
+On 29 December 1799, ''Shaw Ardaseer'', Smith, master, sailed from Gravesend, bound for India.<ref>''[[Lloyd's List]]'' [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c3049070?urlappend=%3Bseq=238 (''LL'') №4011, Ship arrivals and departure (SAD) data.]</ref>
 ''Lloyd's List'' reported on 30 May 1800 that ''Shaw Ardrasier'' had run down and sunk ''Westmoreland'', Ayre, master. ''Westmoreland'' was on a voyage from [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] to Grenada. Her crew was saved.<ref name=LL300500>{{cite journal |url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015036615428;view=1up;seq=303 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=4054 |date=30 May 1800 }}</ref>
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 The government in India, in preparation for sending an expedition to the Red Sea, engaged three country ships, ''Shaw Ardesir'', ''Cumbrian'', and ''Minerva'', and commissioned them on terms that would permit them to share in prize money.{{sfnp|Bulley|2000|p=69}}
-''Shah Ardasheer'' then served as a transport to support General Sir [[Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet|David Baird's]] expedition to the Red Sea,{{sfnp|House of Commons|1814|p=655}} which in turn had the objective of supporting General Sir [[Ralph Abercrombie]] at the [[battle of Alexandria]].
+''Shah Ardasheer'' then served as a transport to support General Sir [[Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet|David Baird's]] expedition to the Red Sea,{{sfnp|House of Commons|1814|p=655}} which in turn had the objective of supporting General Sir [[Ralph Abercrombie]] at the [[Battle of Alexandria (1801)|battle of Alexandria]].
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-In 1803 ''Shaw Ardeseer'' appeared in a list of vessels registered at Bombay. Her master was Thomas Maughan, and her owner Dady Nasserwanjee.<ref>''East-India register and directory'' (1803), p.269.</ref> She spent much of her time sailing between Bombay and Canton in the cotton trade.
+In 1803 ''Shaw Ardeseer'' appeared in a list of vessels registered at Bombay. Her master was Thomas Maughan, and her owner Dady Nasserwanjee.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101057193953&view=1up&seq=310 |title=East-India register and directory. 1803. |publisher=Cox, Son and Baylis |year=1803 |location=Princeton University |pages=270 |chapter=List of Merchant Vessels |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref> She spent much of her time sailing between Bombay and Canton in the cotton trade.
-On 10 January 1805 ''Ardaseer'' shoaled on a bank at {{coord|10|35|N|107|45|E}}.<ref>''Naval Chronicle'', (January–July 1813), Vol. 29, p.429.</ref>
+On 10 January 1805 ''Ardaseer'' shoaled on a bank at {{coord|10|35|N|107|45|E}}.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000744057r&view=1up&seq=469&skin=2021 |title=The Naval chronicle v.29 (From January to June) |publisher=J. Gold |year=1813 |volume=29 |location=London |pages=429 |chapter=Cochin-China |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref>
 ==Fate==
-In September of 1809 ''Shah Ardasheer'' was at Bombay loading a cargo for London. Her owners had arranged insurance of £124,440 for her and her cargo for the voyage. The insurance policy was completed on 27 December 1809.<ref>''Select Reports'' (1824), Appendix: Committee on Marine Insurance, p.46.</ref> However, by that time she had already burnt at Bombay.
+In September 1809 ''Shah Ardasheer'' was at Bombay loading a cargo for London. Her owners had arranged insurance of £124,440 for her and her cargo for the voyage. The insurance policy was completed on 27 December 1809.<ref>{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rjJbAAAAQAAJ&dq=select%20reports%201824%20appendix%3A%20committee%20on%20marine%20insurance&pg=RA3-PA46 |title=Reports from Committees |year=1824 |volume=7 |location=Bodleian Library, Oxford |pages=46 |chapter=Report from the Select Committee on Marine Insurance; (Sess. 1810): Appendix |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref> However, by that time she had already burnt at Bombay.
-In the night of 13 September 1809 ''Shah Ardasheer'' caught fire. An alarm was raised and Mr. Kempt, the chief officer, hailed the warships around her for help. Captain Wainright of {{HMS|Iphigenia|1808|6}}, responded with 100 men, buckets, and an "engine". {{HMS|Chiffone}} and ''Teignmouth'' also sent men. Despite their efforts, ''Ardaseer'' could not be saved. Unable to stop the fire, the rescuers scuttled her in the harbour.<ref>''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 23, (January–July 1810), pp.279-80.</ref>
+In the night of 13 September 1809 ''Shah Ardasheer'' caught fire. An alarm was raised and Mr. Kempt, the chief officer, hailed the warships around her for help. Captain Wainright of {{HMS|Iphigenia|1808|6}}, responded with 100 men, buckets, and an "engine". {{HMS|Chiffonne}} and ''Teignmouth'' also sent men. Despite their efforts, ''Ardaseer'' could not be saved. Unable to stop the fire, the rescuers scuttled her in the harbour.<ref>{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fCgoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA279 |title=The Naval Chronicle |publisher=Joyce Gold |year=1810 |volume=23 |location=London |pages=279–280 |chapter=Loss of the Ship Ardeseer, by fire |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref> ''[[Lloyd's List]]'' reported that she had burnt in Bombay Harbour and that half her cargo had been on board.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044105232938?urlappend=%3Bseq=265 |title=The Marine List |work=Lloyd's List |issue=4425 |date=23 January 1810|hdl=2027/hvd.32044105232938?urlappend=%3Bseq=265 |accessdate=2 February 2021}}</ref>
 ==HMS ''Arrogant''==
 From 1804 to 1810, when she was broken up, {{HMS|Arrogant|1761|6}} had sat in Bombay harbour as a floating battery, receiving ship and then sheer hulk. The Admiralty ordered the purchase of the mercantile ''Ardaseir''.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=403}} Admiral [[William O'Bryen Drury|Drury]] renamed the purchased vessel HMS ''Arrogant'' and decided to use her as a floating hospital.{{sfnp|Parkinson|1954|p=356}}
-There is no record of the construction at [[Bombay Dockyard]] of an ''Ardesir'' in 1810.{{sfnp|Wadia|1986|pp-338–339}} This raises the possibility that ''Arrogant'' was ''Shah Ardasheer'' raised and rebuilt, which would also account for the increase in burthen.
+There is no record of the construction at [[Bombay Dockyard]] of an ''Ardesir'' in 1810.{{sfnp|Wadia|1986|pp=338–339}} This raises the possibility that ''Arrogant'' was ''Shah Ardasheer'' raised and rebuilt, which would also account for the increase in burthen.{{original research inline|date=October 2020}}
-HMS ''Arrogant'' was registered as a [[third rate]] in 1827. She was moved to Trincomalee on 19 November 1822. She was sold in 1842.
+HMS ''Arrogant'' was registered as a [[third rate]] in 1827. She was moved to Trincomalee on 19 November 1822. (She may have been hulked there earlier as she described in 1819 as a hulk there.<ref name=Comparative/>) She was sold in 1842.
-==Citations and references==
+==Citations==
+{{reflist}}
-'''Citations'''
+==References==
-{{reflist|30em}}
+* {{cite book |last=Bulley |first=Anne |year=2000 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XEAVlScUWjwC&pg=PA69 |title=The Bombay Country Ships, 1790–1833 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0700712366 |chapter=Country Ships used as Troop Transports}}
-'''References'''
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 * {{cite book |last=Hackman |first=Rowan |date=2001 |title=Ships of the East India Company |location=Gravesend, Kent |publisher=World Ship Society |isbn=0-905617-96-7 }}
-* {{cite book |author=House of Commons, Parliament, Great Britain |year=1814 |title=Minutes of the Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on Petitions Relating to East-India-Built Shipping |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |ref={{SfnRef|House of Commons|1814}}}}
+* {{cite book |author=House of Commons, Parliament, Great Britain |year=1814 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IuMtN4QDC4QC&pg=PA86 |title=Minutes of the Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on Petitions Relating to East-India-Built Shipping |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |ref={{SfnRef|House of Commons|1814}}}}
-* {{cite book |last=Low |first=Charles Rathbone |year=1877 |title=History of the Indian Navy: (1613-1863) |publisher=R. Bentley and son}}
+* {{cite book |last=Low |first=Charles Rathbone |authorlink=Charles Rathbone Low |year=1877 |url=https://www.indianculture.gov.in/flipbook/26659 |title=History of the Indian Navy: (1613-1863) |publisher=R. Bentley and son}}
-* {{cite book |last=Parkinson |first=Cyril Northcote |year=1954 |title=War in the Eastern Seas, 1793—1815 |publisher=George Allen & Unwin}}
+* {{cite book |last=Parkinson |first=Cyril Northcote |year=1954 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/warineasternseas0000park/page/356/mode/2up?view=theater |title=War in the Eastern Seas, 1793—1815 |publisher=George Allen & Unwin}}
-* {{cite book|last=Phipps|first=John |year=1840|title=A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time ...|publisher=Scott }}
+* {{cite book |last=Phipps |first=John |year=1840 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SpleAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA168 |title=A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time ... |publisher=Scott}}
-*''Reports and Papers on the Impolicy of Employing Indian Built Ships in the Trade of the East-India Company, and of Admitting Them to British Registry: With Observation on Its Injurious Consequences to the Landed and Shipping Interests, and to the Numerous Branches of Trade Dependent on the Building and Equipment of British-built Ships''. (1809). (London:Blacks and Parry).
+*''[https://books.google.com/books?id=tZheAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA242 Reports and Papers on the Impolicy of Employing Indian Built Ships in the Trade of the East-India Company, and of Admitting Them to British Registry: With Observation on Its Injurious Consequences to the Landed and Shipping Interests, and to the Numerous Branches of Trade Dependent on the Building and Equipment of British-built Ships]''. (1809). (London:Blacks and Parry).
-* {{cite book |last1=Robb |first1=Peter |title=Sentiment and Self: Richard Blechynden’s Calcutta Diaries, 1791–1822 |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford |isbn=0199088608}}
+* {{cite book |last1=Robb |first1=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9PQtDwAAQBAJ&q=james%20callendar&pg=PT22 |title=Sentiment and Self: Richard Blechynden's Calcutta Diaries, 1791–1822 |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford |isbn=978-0199088607}}
 * {{cite book|last=Wadia |first=R. A. |orig-year=1957 |year=1986 |title=The Bombay Dockyard and the Wadia Master Builders |location=Bombay | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57463}}
-* {{cite book |first=Rif|last=Winfield|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|year=2008|isbn=978-1-86176-246-7}}
+* {{cite book |first=Rif |last=Winfield |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ge8kCwAAQBAJ |title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates |publisher=Seaforth Publishing |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-86176-246-7}}
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v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1800
Shipwrecks	5 Jan: HMS Mastiff 26 Jan: HMS Brazen January (unknown date): Argo February (unknown date): La Vengeance 10 Mar: HMS Repulse 13 Mar: Prince 17 Mar: HMS Queen Charlotte 15 May: HMS Cormorant 9 Jul: Queen July (unknown date): King George 8 Aug: USS Insurgent 10 Aug: HMS Dromedary 20 Aug: USS Pickering August (unknown date): Martha 26 Sep: HMS Hound 8 Oct: HMS Diligence 9 Oct: HMS Galgo October (unknown date): Earl Talbot, HMS Martin 3 Nov: HMS Marlborough 9 Nov: HMS Havick, Hired armed cutter Lion Unknown date: HMS America, Canada, Cornish Hero, Dublin, Norfolk, Recovery
Other incidents	21 Jan: Sarah Ann 3 Feb: Sarah Ann 4 Aug: Concorde 22 Aug: Latona 7 Oct: Confiance, Kent December (unknown date): Iris Unknown date: Shah Ardaseer
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v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1809
Shipwrecks	5 Jan: HMS Pigeon 9 Jan: HMS Morne Fortunee 11 Jan: HMS Magnet 14 Jan: Caroline 20 Jan: HMS Claudia 22 Jan: HMS Primrose 25 Jan: Admiral Gardner, Britannia January (unknown date): HMS Constant, HMS Piercer 3 Feb: Amphitrite 24 Feb: Calypso, Cybèle, Italienne 26 Feb: Jean Bart February (unknown date): Maria 14 Mar: HMS Harrier 15 Mar: Bengal, Calcutta, Jane, Duchess of Gordon, Lady Jane Dundas 16 Mar: Argument March (unknown date): Harrington, Hazard 1 Apr: Lord Melville 12 Apr: Aquilon, Calcutta, HMS Mediator, Régulus, Tonnerre 13 Apr: Ville de Varsovie 29 Apr: HMS Alcmene 1 Jun: Asia 16 Jun: HMS Agamemnon 18 Jun: HMS Sealark June (unknown date): Arran July (unknown date): Brunswick 3 Aug: HMS Lark 27 Aug: Bellona 31 Aug: HMS Foxhound August (unknown date): HMS Dominica, HMS Pike 13 Sep: Shah Ardaseer 22 Sep: HMS Curieux 26 Oct: Lion, Robuste 17 Nov: HMS Patriot 7 Dec: HM Hired armed ship Harlequin 14 Dec: HMS Defender, HMS Junon 23 Dec: HMS Salorman 28 Dec: John December (unknown date): Boyd Unknown date: Pandour, True Briton
Other incidents	23 Nov: Princess of Wales December (unknown date): Boyd massacre Unknown date: Loyalist
1808 1810