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Sunday 21 September 2014

British 5th rate HSM Doris left Dutch East Indies for the British Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Java Government Gazette dated 29 February 1812

An item reported the departure from Batavia, Dutch East Indies on 4th February by the British HMS Doris commanded by W. Lye. Apparently while elsewhere reported that she left on the 28th towards Bombay, British Indies.(1)

Note
1. 5th Rate, purchased as ex-East Indiaman Pitt 1808, sold at Valparaiso, Chile in April 1829, with a 870 tons builders measurement and an armament of 36 guns.