Sullimany (1797 ship)
Sullimany (or Solimany, or Solamany, or Sullimaney, or Sulamany, or Solamony), was built at Demaun between 1795 and 1799, registered in Bombay after 1803, and was still sailing c.1840. She was originally a country ship. (The British East India Company's monopoly on the trade between the Far East and England meant that she traded east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of Cape Horn.) A French privateer captured her in 1799, but an East Indiaman fortuitously recaptured her shortly thereafter. She also served as a transport in two British military campaigns. Career. On 4  March 1799, the French privateer "Heureux" captured "Solimany" off Nagore. recaptured "Solimany", Captain Hamed Pelley, master, of eight guns. Four men of her crew of lascars had escaped when she was captured. "Solimany" had a prize crew of seven French men and a Swede onboard. She was carrying a cargo of "sundry articles" and was on her way to Mauritius when "Dublin" recaptured her after a five-hour chase. In 1801 the British government hired a number of transports to support Major-General Sir David Baird's expedition to the Red Sea. Baird was in command of the Indian army  that was going to Egypt to help General Ralph Abercromby expel the French there. In 1811 the British government, under the auspices of Lord Minto hired a large number of transport vessels, "Sullimany" among them, for the invasion of Java. In March 1816, "Sullimany", Ringrose, master, sailed from Bombay with cargoes for Muscat, Bushire, and Bussorah. She stopped first at Muscat, a known slave-trading port. There she took on board 14 Negroes. Ringrose objected, stating that they were slaves and that carrying them risked the seizure of the ship if they encountered a British naval vessel. The "Nacoda" stated  that the Negroes were passengers. Ringrose stated that the people could go aboard if the Nacoda accepted the consequences. "Sullimany" then sailed from Muscat on 24 May with the Negroes aboard, bound for Bushire. On 17 June 1816 , Captain the Honourable James Ashley Maude, detained "Sullimany" and sent her into Bombay for adjudication. The Vice admiralty court found that "Sullimany" was sailing under the British flag, under the command of a British subject, owned by a British subject, and navigating under the laws of the United Kingdom. He ruled that she had been carrying 14 Negro slaves, in contravention of  British law, and declared them forfeit to His Majesty. Fate. The barque "Sulimony" caught fire on 28 February 1841 off Kidderpore Dockyard. The fire had begun among some bales of cotton and was soon subdued; arson was not suspected. Notes, citations, and references. Notes Citations References