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Admiral Hughes East Indiaman [see: Sir Edward Hughes]

Admiral Rainier East Indiaman [see: HMS Hindostan]

HMS Alligator, Frigate [Sixth Rate, 28 Gun] - Royal Navy.
Built at Deptford Dockyard, then Randall & Co. at Rotherhithe between 1782-1790. Dimensions: 120ft 6" x 33ft. 7"; Guns: 28 (24 x 9 Pounders; 4 x 3 Pounders); Tons: 599; Crew: 200.
Served in the West Indies between 1792-1795; fitted as 16-gun troopship at Portsmouth in February-March 1800 and served in operations in Egypt in 1801. Laid up at Plymouth in April 1807 and eventually sold in 1814.
Macquarie refers to it as the Aligator in 1801 during his participation in the campaign to Egypt against the French.
[Source: Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817: design, construction, careers and fates. London: Chatham Publishing, 2005 p.223].

Antelope - Colonial Government Schooner.
Used principally for river transport - carrying government stores to and from Parramatta and collecting sawn timber conveyed from the timbermill at Pennant Hills; and for for use in H.M. Dockyard at Sydney (1818).

Asia - East Indiaman
Built by Perry, launched in 1780. Three decks; length: [approx]. 143 ft.; breadth: [approx]. 36 ft.; 816 tons.
Six (6) voyages to India and China between 1781 and 1798: (1) March 1781 - October 1783 Bombay & China); (2) March 1785 - September 1786 (Benkulen & China); (3) April 1788 - September 1789 (Bombay & China); (4) April 1791 - November 1792 (Madras & Bengal); (5) May 1794 - October 1795 (Madras & Bengal); and (6) April 1796 - November 1798.
The Asia was part of the convoy of HEIC ships contracted to transport three companies of the 75th. Regiment to Bombay in 1788. Macquarie was accompanying the men of the 77th. Regiment of Foot on board the Dublin in this convoy.
[Source: Farrington, A. Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs 1600-1834. p. 33].

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