“She is the second replica of an East Indiaman after the Dutch Batavia, though from a later period.”
“Even Samuel Pepys, then the surveyor-victualer of the Royal Navy, was unprepared for the cargo he inspected in November 1665 aboard a captured Dutch Indiaman.”
“It was then British policy to transport convicts in officially naval vessels, although the Calcutta was a big converted East Indiaman with 500 people aboard.”