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|Ship name=''Hooghly'', ''Hoogley'', or ''Hooghley''
|Ship namesake=[[Hooghly River]]
|Ship owner=*EIC voyage #1: John W Buckle<ref name=BL/> 
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|Ship registry=London ([[Official Number]]: 13680)
|Ship fate=Sank 10 December 1863
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'''''Hooghly''''' was a [[Full-rigged ship|full-rigged]] merchant ship built on the [[River Thames|Thames]], England, and launched in 1819. She made two voyages under charter to the British [[East India Company]] (EIC), four voyages [[Transportation (punishment)|transporting]] [[convict]]s from England and Ireland to Australia, as well as voyages transporting emigrants to South Australia between 1839 and 1856. Around 1858 she was re-rigged as a [[barque]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping|date=1859|publisher=Lloyd's Register of Shipping|location=London|page=H, seq 381|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5EASAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT203|access-date=10 February 2016}}</ref> She sank off [[Algiers]] in 1863.

==Career==
===EIC voyage #1 (1819-1820)===
Captain James Thomas Lamb sailed from [[The Downs (ship anchorage)|the Downs]] on 27 May 1819, bound for [[Bengal]]. ''Hooghly'' then reached [[Kolkatta|Calcutta]] on 23 September. Homeward bound, she passed [[Khejuri II#Khijri|Kedgeree]] on 1 January 1820. She then reached the [[Cape of Good Hope]] on 3 March and [[Saint Helena|St Helena]] on 5 April, before arriving back at the Downs on 30 May.<ref name=BL/>

===Convict voyage #1 (1825)===
Under the command of Peter Reeves and surgeon Robert Tainsh, she left [[Cork (city)|Cork]], Ireland on 5 January 1825, arriving in [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]] on 22 April.{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|pp=296-7}} She embarked 195 male convicts, of whom two died en route.{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|p=330}} ''Hooghly'' departed [[Port Jackson]] on 21 May bound for [[Bombay]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2184076 |title=Shipping Intelligence |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |work=The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Thursday 26 May 1825, p.2 |publisher= |access-date=10 February 2016}}</ref>

===Convict voyage #2 (1827)===
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.{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|pp=296-7}} She embarked 99 male convicts, all of whom arrived.{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|p=331}} ''Hooghly'' departed Port Jackson on 4 April, bound for [[Jakarta|Batavia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37071966 |title=Ship News |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |work=The Australian (Sydney), Wednesday 9 April 1828, p.3 |publisher= |access-date=10 February 2016}}</ref>

===Emigrant voyage (1830)===
''Hooghly'' arrived in Clarence, off [[Garden Island (Western Australia)|Garden Island, Western Australia]] on 13 February 1830, bringing 173 settlers to the [[Swan River Colony]]. She was one of three ships that [[Thomas Peel]] had chartered to deliver 400 settlers. The other two vessels were 
{{ship||Gilmore|1824 ship|2}} and {{ship||Rockingham|1818 ship|2}}.

''Gilmore'', the first to leave, had arrived on 15 December 1829 in the Swan River Colony with Thomas Peel and 182 settlers in all. ''Rockingham'' (180 passengers), arrived in mid-May 1830. She was wrecked shortly after landing her passengers, but all survived.

''Hooghly'' left Perth in March 1830 bound for London via Singapore, with steerage passengers.

===Convict voyage #3 (1831)===
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.{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|pp=300-1}} She embarked 184 female convicts and had no convict deaths en route.{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|p=333}} ''Hooghly'' departed Port Jackson on 22 October, bound for China and London.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32076256 |title=Ship News |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |work=The Sydney Monitor (NSW), Wednesday 26 October 1831, p.2 |publisher= |access-date=10 February 2016}}</ref> The departing former [[Governor of New South Wales]], Sir [[Ralph Darling]], was a passenger on the vessel.

===EIC voyage #2 (1832)===
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.<ref name=BL/>

===Convict voyage #4 (1834)===
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.{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|pp=302-3}} She disembarked her full complement of 260 male convicts.{{sfnp|Bateson|1959|p=334}}

===later voyages===
''Hooghly'' made numerous voyages to South Australia.

On one voyage she sailed from London on 19 February 1839 and arrived at Port Adelaide on 17 June. There she landed 290 migrants.

On her next voyage she left Plymouth and arrived at Port Adelaide on 25 July 1840.
 
In 1842 she sailed from Calcutta to [[Van Diemen's Land]] with prisoners and a cargo of horses.

She made five voyages bringing immigrants to Port Adelaide between 1846 and 1859.

'''1st voyage:''' She sailed from London on 19 June 1846 and arrived on 23 October.

'''2nd voyage:''' She sailed from London on 3 August 1847 and arrived on 22 November.

'''3rd voyage:''' She sailed from London on 13 August 1848 and arrived on 4 December.

'''4th voyage:''' She sailed from Plymouth on 2 January 1855 and arrived on 18 April.

'''5th voyage:''' She sailed from Plymouth on 12 April 1856 and arrived on 26 July.

In 1859 ''Hooghly'' left London on 10 September and arrived in Hobart on 21 December. She transported 131 immigrants, including many single women.

At some point ''Hooghly'' also sailed from Cork, Ireland to Port Jackson, New South Wales, with Irish migrants.

==Fate==
''Hooghly'' foundered off Algiers on 10 December 1863 while on a voyage to [[Cork (city)|Cork]], Ireland, from [[Constantinople]]. After the crew safely abandoned her the British steamship ''Ida'' rescued them, landing them at [[Gibraltar]] five days later.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Bombay Mail|work=The Standard|issue=12287|date=28 December 1863|location=London|page=6}}</ref><ref>[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044105233225?urlappend=%3Bseq=221 ''Lloyd's Register'' (1863), Seq. no. H20.]</ref>

==Citations==
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==References==
* {{cite book |title =The Convict Ships | first =Charles | last =Bateson | year =1959 | publisher =Brown, Son & Ferguson | oclc =3778075}}
* {{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 }}
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