On this day, the ship Hindostan, which had sailed from Liverpool to Bengal several times, was wrecked near Omoa in Honduras. The ship, launched in Liverpool in 1817, made its first trips under a British East India Company licence. Other than Calcutta and Bombay (now Mumbai), it sailed to Singapore, the United States, Central America and Africa.

It was one of the British ships which were in the Bonny River in Nigeria in April 1837 when the British overthrew Annah Pepple and reinstated Dappa Pepple, the previous king, in the Kingdom of Bonny, a state in the town of Bonny in Rivers State, Nigeria.

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