Philip Dundas (ship)
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At least two and possibly three vessels have borne the name Philip Dundas (or Phillip Dundas), named for Philip Dundas (c.1763–1807), a Scottish British East India Company naval officer, president of the East India Marine Board, and superintendent of Bombay. He returned to Britain and became a Member of Parliament before returning to the Far East to become governor of Prince of Wales Island.
A brig of 178 tons burthen built at Bombay Dockyard in 1798 for the Bengal Pilot Service. One source has her foundering off Madagascar in 1806 on passage to the Cape of Good Hope.[1] However, another source has her still in service, reporting that on 18 March 1808, a storm drove the pilot schooners Hastings and Philip Dundas on shore such that they could not be got off until the spring tides.[2] On 4 July 1810, Sir Edward Pellew grounded while leaving the Ganges river outbound for China and was wrecked. The passengers were got off the next day, and on 7 July the pilot schooner Philip Dundas came out from Kedgeree and took off the last surviving crew member.[3] A third source reports that she was sold out of government service, but does not give a year.[4] This same source states that Phillip Dundas , of 160 tons and built at Bombay in 1797, was sold and lost at Madagascar.[5]
Philip Dundas (2)
A merchant vessel that the French privateer Confiance, Thomassin, master, Jean Esparon, owner, brought into Mauritius on 10 October 1810. She was described as a three-masted British ship, of 350 to 400 tons, built of teak, and copper-sheathed. Her cargo consisted of 15 cases of opium, 200 pieces of satin, Pekin and blue custine, 150 livres of cloves, etc.[6] When the British captured Île de France on 10 November 1810, among the vessels they found at "Port Napoleon" was "le Philip Dundas, of 300 Tons".[7]
