Thomas Grenville

Thomas Grenville was an East Indiaman launched at the Bombay Dockyard for the British East India Company (EIC), and one of only a handful of East Indiamen that it actually owned. She made 14 voyages for the EIC. It sold her in 1834 when it gave up its maritime activities. She was sold for a free trader and burnt in Bombay in June 1843 in a suspicious fire. Career Thomas Grenville sailed to China from Bombay with a cargo of cotton. 1st EIC voyage (1809–1810): Captain William Patterson sailed from Canton, bound for England. Thomas Grenville crossed the Second Bar on 24 February 1809. She reached Penang on 30 March and St Helena on 10 July. She arrive in the Downs on 8 September. 2nd EIC voyage (1810–1811): Captain Patterson acquired a letter of marque on 17 April 1810. He sailed from Portsmouth on 11 May 1810, bound for Ceylon and Bengal. Thomas Grenville was at Madeira on 27 May, reached Colombo on 2 October, and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 9 December. Homeward bound, she sailed from Saugor on 11 February 1811, stopped at Colombo again on 7 March, reached St Helena on 30 May, and arrived in the Downs on 8 August.