Ganges was a brig launched at Bombay Dockyard for the Bengal Pilot Service,[2] of the British East India Company (EIC).

(She is sometimes referred to as a schooner, but that is more a reference to her role than her sailing rig.)

[3] The accidental fire spread to the powder magazine and the explosion killed eight men.

Forty men took to her boat, and 59 to a hastily constructed raft.

Six hours after the men took to the raft Laurel rescued all the survivors.