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} |} HMS ''Hindostan'' (later variously ''Hindustan'') was a 56-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was originally the East Indiaman ''Hindostan'', launched in 1789, that the Admiralty bought in 1795. She is known for two events, her voyage to China between 1792 and 1794 when she carried Lord George Macartney on a special embassy to China, and her loss in a fire at sea in 1804. ==East India Company== She was launched by William Barnard of Deptford on 3 November 1789 as ''Hindostan''. From 17 January 1790 to 29 June 1791, under Captain William Mackintosh, she made one round trip for the East India Company to China.〔National Archives.() — accessed 20 December 2013.〕 She left the Downs on 17 January 1790 and was at Madeira by 31 January. She reached Madras on 2 June. From there she sailed to Penang (arriving 10 August), and Whampoa, where she arrived on 11 September. For the return trip she crossed the Second Bar on 7 January 1791, reached Cape Town on 9 April, St Helena on 28 April, and anchored in the Downs on 27 June.〔 The British Government then chartered her to take Lord Macartney to China in an unsuccessful attempt to open diplomatic and commercial relations with the Chinese empire. The voyage lasted from 1 October 1792 to 30 September 1794.〔Robbins (1808)〕 The ''Hindostan'' traveled in the company of the 64-gun HMS ''Lion'' under Captain Sir Erasmus Gower, and the brig ''Jackall''. She left Torbay on 1 October 1792, arrived at Madeira nine days later, and Tenerife 11 days after that. She next stopped at São Tiago on 2 November, Rio de Janeiro on 30 November, and Tristan de Cunha on 3 December. On 1 February 1793 she was at St Paul's Island, by 5 March at Batavia, by 16 May at Condore, by 26 May Cochin China, by 2 July Chusan, by 25 July she was off Teinchin, but then returned to Chusan on 2 September. She arrived at Whampoa on 11 December.〔 While ''Hindostan'' was at Whampoa anchorage in December there were several other East Indiamen there that on their return to Britain the Admiralty too would purchase: ''Ceres'', ''Earl of Abergavenny'', and ''Warley'', and ''Royal Charlotte''.〔Anderson (1795), p.448.〕 Part of the remuneration of the captain of an Indiaman was the right to carry up to some 50 tons of cargo for his own account. Mackintosh managed to conduct private trade in Guangzhou from the voyage amounting to £7,480. The total private trade on ''Hindostan'' amounted to £9,633.〔Pagani (2001), p.104.〕 For her return trip ''Hindostan'' crossed the Second Bar on 4 February 1794, reaching St Helena on 18 June and the Downs on 7 September.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Hindostan (1795)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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