Baring (1801 Indiaman)

Captain Dixon Meadows left Portsmouth on 1 March 1802, bound for Madras and Bengal.

For her return voyage, she passed Saugor on 12 January 1803, reached Madras on 13 March, St Helena on 8 August, and Cork, Ireland, on 1 December.

Because Baring was traveling during wartime, the Napoleonic Wars having started in 1803, Dixon arranged to sail under a letter of marque, dated 5 June 1804.

On her return voyage she left Madras on 8 September, together with Airly Castle, Duke of Montrose, Lord Hawkesbury, and Devaynes, and under escort by HMS Weymouth, herself a former Indiaman.

[1] Captain James Carnegie sailed from Portsmouth on 4 March 1807, bound for Madras and Bengal.

[4] Because Carnegie remained Baring's master until the end of the war, he did not require a reissue of a letter on his later voyages.

Homeward bound she reached Madras on 22 October, the Cape on 30 December, and St Helena on 25 January 1808.

Homeward bound, she passed Saugor on 17 October, reached Vizagapatam on 31 December, Madras on 13 January 1810, Colombo on 3 February, and St Helena on 3 May.

Baring reached Madeira on 19 February, the Cape on 8 May, and Madras on 5 July, arriving at Diamond Harbour on 13 August.

British ships were then free to sail between England and India or the Indian Ocean under a licence from the EIC.

[6] Under the command of John Lamb, Baring left England on 20 April 1815 with 300 male convicts.

On 18 February 1817, Baring, Lamb, master, sailed from Gravesend, bound for St Helena and India.

While sailing from Port Jackson to Bengal, Lamb and Baring spent three days in the Baring Shoals, a cluster of detached reefs and banks near Booby and Bellona Shoals and reefs in the Chesterfield Islands after leaving New South Wales.

[12] On his second return to London, in July 1820, Buckle & Co. appointed Lamb to command of their merchant ship Palmyra.

The Register of Shipping carried an entry for her with Lamb, master, and trade London—New South Wales to 1824.