A number of ships have been named ''Hindostan'' or ''Hindustan'', after the old name for the

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: * was launched at Liverpool in 1817. initially, she traded with India under a licence from the British

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(EIC). She also traded with the United States, Singapore, Africa, and Central America. She was wrecked on 24 December 1838 near

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, Honduras. * was launched at Whitby in 1819. She made one voyage, in 1821,

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to New South Wales. Later, she made two voyages transporting convicts to

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, one with female convicts (1839), and one with male convicts (1840–1841). When not transporting convicts ''Hindostan'' was a general trader, sailing across the Atlantic, to India, and perhaps elsewhere as well. She was lost in 1841. * was a P&O side paddle-wheel steamer that sank in a cyclone in Calcutta in 1864 while employed as a storeship. * was built for British & Eastern Shipping Co., which sold her in 1873 to the New Zealand Shipping Co. That company renamed her ''Waitara''. She sank in 1883 following a collision with ''Hurunui'' in the English Channel, with a loss of 20 lives. * was a P&O steamer that was wrecked on a reef near Madras in 1879.

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