{"slug": "east-indiaman", "label": "East Indiaman", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Indiaman", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2035668", "qid": "Q2035668", "description": "general name for any ship operating under charter or license to any of the East India Companies", "entries": 16, "years": 10, "span": [1780, 1841], "span_label": ["1780 CE", "1841 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 10}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["East Indiamen", "Indiaman", "Indiamen"], "related": [{"slug": "batavian-republic", "label": "Batavian Republic", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "dunkirk", "label": "Dunkirk", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "american-revolutionary-war", "label": "American Revolutionary War", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "indian-ocean", "label": "Indian Ocean", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ceylon", "label": "Ceylon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "napoleonic-wars", "label": "Napoleonic Wars", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bay-of-bengal", "label": "Bay of Bengal", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1780, "year_label": "1780 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 9", "text": "August 9 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish admiral Luis de Córdova y Córdova captures a British convoy totalling 55 vessels amongst Indiamen, frigates and other cargo ships off Cape St. Vincent.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370564554#July–September", "title": "1780", "revid": 1370564554, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1780, "year_label": "1780 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 9", "text": "9 August – American Revolutionary War: Spanish admiral Luis de Córdova y Córdova captures a British convoy totalling 55 vessels amongst Indiamen, frigates and other cargo ships off Cape St. Vincent.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275834830#Events", "title": "1780 in Great Britain", "revid": 1275834830, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1786, "year_label": "1786 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 6", "text": "January 6 – The outward bound East Indiaman Halsewell is wrecked on the south coast of England in a storm, with only 74 of more than 240 on board surviving.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370552329#January–March", "title": "1786", "revid": 1370552329, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1786, "year_label": "1786 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 6", "text": "6 January – the outward bound East Indiaman Halsewell is wrecked on the Isle of Purbeck in a storm with only 74 of more than 240 on board surviving.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275834961#Events", "title": "1786 in Great Britain", "revid": 1275834961, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1800, "year_label": "1800 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "October 7", "text": "October 7 – French privateer Robert Surcouf leads the 150-man crew of his corvette Confiance 1797 ship to capture the 40-gun, 437-man British East Indiaman Kent 1799 ship in the Indian Ocean.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370325498#October–December", "title": "1800", "revid": 1370325498, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1802, "year_label": "1802 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "November 23", "text": "November 23 – East Indiaman Vryheid, in the service of the Batavian Republic, is shipwrecked in a gale off Hythe, Kent, in the south of England; 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