SIR DAVID SCOTT

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According the Ship Stamp Encyclopedia and Navicula the ship depict on this stamp of Panama issued 1968 13c depict the British East India Co. ship SIR DAVID SCOTT.
The Ship Stamp Encyclopedia gives then, she was the largest vessel of the company, built in 1801 in Bombay. Tonnage 1.257 or 858 ton. Dim. 134 x 42 x 20ft (draught).
She had a teak deck and hull sheathed in copper.
The stamp design is made after a painting by the British painter W.J.Huggins engraved by E. Duncan, the name on the stamp. It shows the ship at the entrance of Strait Sunda on Feb. 1830.

W.J.Huggins was a marine painter and he spent many years at sea with the British East India Co as a sailor, sailing mostly to China and the Far East.
He later quit his seamanslife and settled in London as painter. He painted many East India ships, on orders received from the company.
In 1834 was he appointed Marine Painter to King William IV.

I am in the possession of the book, Ships of the East India Company by Rowan Hackman, but there is not a vessel SIR DAVID SCOTT built in Bombay in 1801 in the book, the only SIR DAVID SCOTT in service with the company was built in 1821 in England.

Built on the yard of Jabez Bayley at Ipswich for Joseph Hare.
13 Sept. 1821 launched under the name SIR DAVID SCOTT.
Tonnage 1439 89/94 bm. Dim. 133.11 x 43.5 x 17.2ft.

30 Dec. 1821, she sailed on her first voyage for the company under command of Capt. William Hunter for Bengal and China, returned England 29 May 1823.
25 Feb. 1824, her second voyage was under command of Capt. John Arman Tween for Bengal and China, returned 25 May 1825.
08 March 1826, sailed from England under command of Capt. John Orr Mactaggart for Bengal and China, returned 04 June 1827.
08 Feb. 1828, sailed for Bengal and China, returned 27 March 1829.
25 April 1830, sailed out under command of Capt. David James Ward, returned 29 May 1831.
Her last voyage for the company was when she sailed out on 24 March 1832 under command of Capt. Edward M. Daniell, returned 12 July 1833.
1838 Sold for breaking up, what she was doing between 1833 until sold, maybe ‘laid up’.
The date given by Navicula that the ship was on the entrance of Strait Sunda Feb. 1830 can be not correct, she sailed from England on 25 April 1830. It must be 1831 on her homeward voyage.

Panama 1968 13c sg?, Scott 485c