Hillsborough (1782 ship)
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| Name: | Hillsborough |
| Namesake: | Viscount Hillsborough |
| Owner: | Robert Preston |
| Builder: | Perry & Co., Blackwall Yard |
| Cost: | £600 for 1⁄32 share in 1781 |
| Launched: | 1782 |
| Fate: | Sold 1798 |
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| Name: | Hillsborough |
| Owner: | Daniel Bennett |
| Acquired: | 1798 |
| Fate: | Unknown; no longer mentioned after 1805. |
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| Tons burthen: | 764, or 764 59⁄94 or 784 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 35 feet 1 inch (10.7 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 14 feet 10 inches (4.5 m) |
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| Notes: | One source reports that her registration was cancelled in 1801, demolition having been completed. However, records exist showing that she continued to sail until 1805. |
Hillsborough was a three-decker merchant ship launched in 1782. She made six voyages to India and China as an East Indiaman for the British East India Company. In 1798 she then transported convicts from England to New South Wales. After delivering her convicts in 1799, she became a whaler in the South Seas fisheries for several years.
Captain William Hardcastle left the Downs on 27 January 1784 for Madras and Bengal. Hillsborough reached Simon's Bay on 24 April and arrived at Madras on 11 July. She then arrived at Kedgeree on 8 August. For her return voyage she passed Saugor on 8 February 1785, reached the Cape on 5 May and St Helena on 5 June, and arrived at the Downs on 17 August.
Captain William Hardcastle left the Downs on 13 March 1786, bound for Bengal, Bombay, and China. Hillsborough was part of a convoy that also included the East Indiamen Prince William, Lord Thurlow, William Pitt, Barwell, Earl of Oxford, Fort William, London, Glatton, Houghton, Marquis of Landsdown, Pigot, Ceres, and Earl of Abergavenny, amongst numerous other vessels, merchant and military, most of the non-Indiamen travelling to the Mediterranean.
Hillsborough reached Simon's Bay on 10 June and Diamond Point on 14 August. From there she sailed to Batavia, which she reached on 30 December. On 23 May 1787 she was at Bombay. She reached Malacca on 24 August and Whampoa on 11 October. For her homeward voyage she crossed the Second Bar, some 20 miles down the river from Whampoa, on 19 February 1788. She reached Benkulen on 23 May and St Helena on 2 October, and arrived at the Downs on 7 February 1789.
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