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| Keywords: A fleet of East Indiamen at sea.jpg Artwork Creator Nicholas Pocock This painting has the alternative title 'Ships of the East India Company at Sea' but was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1803 as 'The Hindostan G Millett commander and senior officer of eighteen sail of East Indiamen with the signal to wear sternmost and leewardmost ships first' That is for the fleet to alter course to the opposite tack in the sequence indicated with the wind astern It is believed to represent the convoy under George Millett as commodore during their return voyage from China early in 1802 The 'Hindostan' in the centre was a large East Indiaman of 1248 tons built in 1796 to replace a previous vessel of the same name that had been sold to the Navy The new 'Hindostan' undertook three voyages in the service of the Company the last being the one illustrated On 11 January 1803 at the start of a fourth voyage she was lost during a heavy gale on Margate Sands with up to thirty of her crew Eleven of the other vessels in the convoy depicted here are known to have reached their moorings in England between 11 and 14 July 1802 the 'Lord Hawkesbury' 'Worcester' 'Boddam' 'Fort William' 'Airly Castle' 'Lord Duncan' 'Ocean' 'Henry Addington' 'Carnatic' 'Hope' and 'Windham' The other ships have not been identified but are also presumed to have done so 1803 oil canvas cm 60 8 92 3 Institution National Maritime Museum London object history exhibition history Exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition 1803 The Hindostan G Millet commander and senior officer of eighteen sail of East Indiamen with the signal to wear sternmost and leewardmost ships first credit line Transferred from http //en wikipedia org en wikipedia; transferred to Commons by User Innotata using http //tools wikimedia de/~magnus/commonshelper php accession number BHC1097 http //www nmm ac uk/collections/explore/object cfm ID BHC1097 National Maritime Museum Greenwich London http //collections rmg co uk/collections/objects/12589 html PD-old-100 Original upload log page en wikipedia A_fleet_of_East_Indiamen_at_sea jpg 2010-09-18 09 46 Pietje96 2500×1591× 129225 bytes <nowiki> A fleet of East Indiamen at sea National Maritime Museum of Greenwich 1803 Nicholas Pocock See Below </nowiki> Nicholas Pocock 1800s paintings in the United Kingdom 19th-century sailing ships in paintings Paintings in the National Maritime Museum London Ships of the line of the Royal Navy Hindostan ship 1796 Ships under sail Wind in paintings | ||||
