During the years 1819 and 1820 the Company sent to their different stations in Bengal, Madras, Bombay, China, Ceylon, and Penang, twenty-three of their own ships aggregating 26,200 tons, besides twenty-one chartered vessels measuring 10,948 tons. Among the Company’s ships were the _Canning_, _Duke of York_, _Kellie Castle_, _Lady Melville_, _Thomas Coutts_, and _Waterloo_, built by Wigram, and all from 1325 to 1350 tons, each mounting 20 guns with a crew of 130 men. The _Buckinghamshire_, _Earl of Balcarras_, _Herefordshire_, _Thomas Granville_, _Minerva_, and _Charles Grant_, all from 923 to 1417 tons, 26 guns, and 130 men with the exception of the _Minerva_ and _Thomas Granville_ which mounted the same number of guns but had 115 and 107 men, respectively, were built by the Company at Bombay. The _Asia_, _Dorsetshire_, _Duneira_, _Marquis of Wellington_, _Prince Regent_, _Princess Amelia_, and _Windsor_, which were all over 1000 tons and mounted 26 guns with crews of from 115 to 130 each, were built in the Barnard yard, also on the Thames. The _London_, _Lowther Castle_, _Marquis of Camden_, and _Perseverance_, all from 1329 to 1408 tons, 26 guns, and 130 men each, were built in the Pitcher yard at Northfleet in Kent. The _Earl of Balcarras_, of 1417 tons, built in 1815 at Bombay, was the largest ship owned by the Company. She was built of India teak, copper-fastened throughout, and mounted batteries on two decks. Her crew of 133 men was made up as follows: Commander, 6 mates, 2 surgeons, 6 midshipmen, purser, gunner, carpenter, master-at-arms, armour, butcher, baker, poulterer, caulker, cooper, 2 stewards, 2 cooks, 8 boatswains, gunner’s, carpenter’s, caulker’s, and cooper’s mates, 6 quartermasters, sailmaker, 7 servants for the commander and officers, and 78 seamen before the mast.