Lord Camden (1783 EIC ship)

EIC voyage #1 (1784-1786): Captain Thomas Walker sailed from the Downs on 17 March 1784, bound for Bombay.

[1] EIC voyage #2 (1787–1789): Captain Nathaniel Dance, Jr.[a] sailed from the Downs on 6 January 1787, bound for Bengal.

Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 15 January 1789, reached St Helena on 2 May, and arrived at the Downs on 9 July.

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

Lord Camden reached Simon's Bay on 21 July, Madras on 17 November, and Trincomalee on 20 December.

[1] The British government chartered Lord Camden, together with numerous other Indiamen and country ships, to serve as a transport in a planned attack on Manila.

[5] When the British Government cancelled the invasion following a peace treaty with Spain, it released the vessels it had engaged.

[1] The EIC charged the British government some £4,292 for demurrage for the 206 days delay to Lord Camden's original voyage.