Borneo

Borneo was a merchant ship built in Borneo in 1817. She undertook one convict voyage to Van Diemen's Land in 1828. She was wrecked in 1832 on her first whaling voyage. Career In 1818 Clunies-Ross was appointed captain of Borneo, a vessel "of 428 tons launched by Richard Hare in Java, which he took back to England with a cargo of spices and coffee, en route disembarking Alexander Hare at the Cape of Good Hope". (C. Ross was John Clunies-Ross). Borneo enters Lloyd's Register in 1820 with C. Ross, master, Hare, owner, and trade Cowes. On 22 October 1820 a gale caused Borneo, Ross, master, to strand on Southsea beach at Portsmouth. She had come from Batavia and had to unload her cargo. She was gotten off on 25 October with trifling damage after about three-quarters of her cargo had been unloaded. She then went into King's Dock to effectuate repairs. The next volume has her having received copper sheathing in 1821, and trade changing to London–Batavia.