Two ships with the name ''Warley'' served the
Honourable East India Company (HEIC) as
East Indiamen between 1788 and 1816:
* was the East Indiaman ''Warley'', built in 1788 and sold to the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
in 1795. She carried convicts to Australia in 1803. The French captured her in 1805, and she was destroyed in 1809 during the
Battle of Basque Roads
The Battle of the Basque Roads, also known as the Battle of Aix Roads (French: ''Bataille de l'île d'Aix'', also ''Affaire des brûlots'', rarely ''Bataille de la rade des Basques''), was a major naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars, fought in th ...
.
* was launched in 1795 at the same yard as her predecessor. She made nine voyages for the HEIC and participated in
Nathaniel Dance
Sir Nathaniel Dance (20 June 1748 – 25 March 1827) was an officer of the East India Company who had a long and varied career on merchant vessels, making numerous voyages to India and back with the fleets of East Indiamen. He was already awar ...
's victory at the
Battle of Pulo Aura while under the command of Captain
Henry Wilson
Henry Wilson (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath; February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) was an American politician who was the 18th vice president of the United States from 1873 until his death in 1875 and a senator from Massachusetts from 1855 to ...
. She was sold for breaking up in 1816.
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Ships of the British East India Company
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Merchant ships of the United Kingdom