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HMS Railleur - Sloop [1804-1810] - Royal Navy
Built: 1804, ex-mercantile Henry, purchased by Royal Navy in June 1804. Dimensions: length, 96 ft. [approx] breadth, 26 ft. [approx]; 271 tons. Guns: 14 x 18 Pounder Carronades; 2 x 9 Pounders. Crew: 65. Tonnage: 271 tons.
Served in North Sea and the Baltic 1804-1810. Sold at Sheerness: 22 December 1810.
Macquarie mentions HMS Railleur on his voyage from Copenhagen to Yarmouth [September 1807].
[Source: Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817: design, construction, careers and fates. London: Chatham Publishing, 2005 pp.271-272].

Raymond - East Indiaman
Built by Perry, launched in 1782. Three decks; length: [approx.] 144 ft.; breadth: [approx.] 36 ft.; 793 tons.
Six (6) voyages to India and China between 1783 and 1798: (1) March 1783 - June 1784 (St. Helena & Bombay); (2) December 1784 - September 1786 (St. Helena & Benkulen); (3) April 1788 - August 1789 (Bombay & China); (4) March 1791 - August 1792 (Bombay); (5) May 1794 - July 1795 (Bombay); and (6) June 1797 (Bombay). Commanded by Captain Henry Smedley (c.1748 -) on 5 voyages in 1784-1798.
Lachlan Macquarie mentions the contacts made with the Raymond on 13 July 1788 in the Mozambique Channel during his voyage to Bombay on board the Dublin and noted its safe arrival in Bombay on 4 August 1788 with a contingent of the 75th Regiment of Foot. The Raymond was captured in Tellicherry Roads (on Malabar Coast) on 20 April 1798, along with the Woodcot, East Indiaman, by the French frigate la Preneuse.
[Sources: Farrington, A. Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs 1600-1834. p. 451; Bombay Courier 12 May 1798, and the Times (London] August 1798 p.3d].

Retreat - East Indiaman
Built by John Perry at the Brunswick (East India) Dock at Blackwall, London; launched in 1805; 3 decks; length 116ft, breadth 32ft; 505 tons.
Five (5) voyages to India and China in the period 1805-1814. The 1805 East Indiaman convoy to Bombay, with Lachlan Macquarie on board the City of London was the first voyage of the Retreat to India, under the command of Captain William Hay (1773-).

Ruby (also spelt Reuby) - India Merchant Ship
Dimensions: 240 tons. Arrived in Sydney from Calcutta on 28 September 1811 under the command of Captain Thomas Cripps (master and owner) with a cargo of India goods: "fine cossas, longcloths, plain and worked muslins, izarees, dungaree, palempores, Madras handkerchiefs, towels, Bandanna handkerchiefs, patna-chintz, fine shirts and trowsers, calico ditto, elegant camel hair shawls, table cloths of different sizes."
Left Sydney under the command of Alfred Ambrose for Calcutta (via Van Diemen's Land) - transporting 80 male prisoners and a detachment of the 73rd Regiment to Hobart on 11 February 1812.

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