Bhavani, also known as Bhavanie (, ), was a ship launched at Calcutta in 1797. She was under the command of Captain John Carse when she was wrecked on 12 November 1799, on the coast of France east of Boulogne-sur-Mer in a gale during a voyage from Calcutta to London. On 6 December 1799, Lloyds List reported that "The Bhavanie, Carse, from Bengal to London, is lost near Boulogne."Lloyds List, №4017. The War of the Second Coalition was raging at the time, and the French took her officers and crew prisoner.
Bhavani was part of a convoy under the escort of the Royal Navy frigate at the time she was wrecked. French forts had initially fired on Bhavani but ceased when it became clear that she was a merchantman in distress. Twenty-four of her crew died, most of whom were Europeans; the rest were lascars. The French were solicitous of the survivors and took them to Valenciennes. The survivors left France on 10 January 1800, and arrived at London in the night of 12 January 1800.Asiatic Annual Register Or a View of the History of Hindustan and of the Politics, Commerce and Literature of Asia, (1802), Vol. 3, pp.37-9.
She may have been carrying cargo on behalf of the British East India Company.
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