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Hindostan (East Indiaman)

Three East Indiamen of the East India Company (EIC), have borne the name Hindostan, after the old name for the Indian subcontinent:

  • was a former East Indiaman by the same name launched in 1789. The Admiralty purchased her in 1795 and classed her as a 54-gun fourth rate. She was converted into a storeship in 1802 and burned in an accident in 1804.

  • Hindostan was launched in 1796 and made three trips to the Far East. She was wrecked while outbound in 1803.
  • Hindostan was launched in 1813 and brought into the Royal Navy as that same year. She later served as a convict ship and as transport for immigrants to Australia before being wrecked in 1840.
Hindostan (ship)

A number of ships have been named Hindostan or Hindustan, after the old name for the Indian subcontinent:

  • was a P&O side paddle-wheel steamer that sank in a cyclone in Calcutta in 1864 while employed as a storeship.

  • was built for British & Eastern Shipping Co., which sold her in 1873 to the New Zealand Shipping Co. That company renamed her the Waitara. She sank in 1883 following a collision with Hurunui in the English Channel, with a loss of 20 lives.

  • was a P&O steamer that was wrecked on a reef near Madras in 1879.