Loyalist

Loyalist was launched in 1793. Between 1796 and 1803 she made four voyages for the British East India Company (EIC). She then sailed as a West Indiaman until she was condemned in 1809 as unseaworthy. Career Although Loyalist was launched in 1793, she first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1796 with F. Walton, master, R. Curling, owner, and trade London–India. Although one source states that Loyalist was a West Indiaman prior to sailing on her four voyages for the EIC, there is another possibility, and that is that she was a Government transport. Among the EIC vessels serving as transports in the British expedition to the Dutch Cape Colony in 1795 that culminated in the Capitulation of Saldanha Bay was a vessel referred to as the "Hospitalship Loyalist" She and several East Indiamen arrived at St. Salvadore on 7 July and left on 15 July. The hospital ship Loyalist arrived at Table Bay on 5 October, having been at Simon's Bay. On 12 November she sailed for Holland as a cartel with the former governor of the colony, Commisary Sluysken, and 200 prisoners of war. 1st EIC voyage (1996–1997): Captain Francis Walton sailed from The Downs on 16 July 1796 bound for Bengal on a voyage for the EIC. She arrived at Kedgeree on 28 February 1797. Homeward bound she was at Simon's Bay on 11 August, reached Saint Helena on 11 September, and arrived back at The Downs on 14 December.