Earl of Wycombe (1786 EIC ship)

EIC voyage #1 (1787–1788): Captain John William Wood sailed from The Downs on 14 March 1787, bound for China.

Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 18 December, reached St Helena on 26 February 1788, and arrived at The Downs 26 April.

Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 2 January 1790, reached St Helena on 14 March, and arrived at The Downs on 21 May.

Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 9 January 1793, reached Batavia and St Helena on 6 May, and arrived at The Downs on 1 July.

[3] The EIC inspected the East Indiamen as they arrived and on 15 October fined Wood and eight other captains £100 each for having not stowed their cargoes in conformance with the Company's orders.

[2] The British government held Earl of Wycombe at Portsmouth, together with a number of other Indiamen in anticipation of using them as transports for an attack on Île de France (Mauritius).

Homeward bound, she was at the Cape on 2 November, reached St Helena on 5 December, and arrived at The Downs on 14 February 1797.

[5] Earl of Wycombe finally sailed from Torbay on 22 September in the next convoy, bound for Madras and Bengal.

[6] Lloyd's List for 18 November 1803 reported that Earl of Wycombe, bound for Liverpool, had put back into Halifax, Nova Scotia, leaky.