[2] Bengal Merchant, Captain Peter Gordon, in November stopped at Tristan da Cunha for several days.

There Gordon met Tommaso Corri (known as Thomas Currie), who was the only survivor (of four men) of the American Jonathan Lambert's settlement on Tristan.

[3] A passenger travelling from Batavia to Dover in 1815 on Bengal Merchant remarked on her master's insistence on her crew attending divine service on Sunday.

The passenger thought it ridiculous to read prayers in English to a crew of lascars, Chinese, and Malays who did not understand the language.

On this occasion, it is likely H Hutchinson was Captain, the Bombay Gazette reported Bengal Merchant arrived in Calcutta on August 8th.

[11] [12] Bengal Merchant sailed from Plymouth on 25 March 1828, under the command of Alex Duthie, and arrived at Hobart Town on 10 August 1828.

[6] Under the command of William Campbell, Bengal Merchant sailed from London on 1 October 1834 and arrived at Port Jackson on 30 January 1835.

Bengal Merchant left Sheerness on 28 March 1838, under the command of William Campbell, and arrived at Port Jackson on 21 July 1838.

[6] Captain John Hemery sailed from Glasgow on 30 October 1839 with 160 passengers and arrived at Port Nicholson (Wellington Harbour), New Zealand, on 20 February 1840.