and Calvert & Co., owners.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004281229?urlappend=%3Bseq=249 Lloyd's Register (1796), Seq. №143.]</ref>Neptune sailed from Portsmouth on 6 March 1796. She was bound for India to serve there in the coastal trade. However, at Cape Town a fire and explosion destroyed her. She was not carrying any cargo on behalf of the EIC. Citations References Admiralty Proceedings on the Sessions held 7 and 8 June 1792 before Sir James Marriott and others, Trials of Kimber, Traill, Ellerington and Hindmarch for murder and Berry and Slack for piracy, London 1792 Christopher, Emma (2007) "Slave Traders, Convict Transportation, and the Abolitionists", in Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, Marcus Buford Rediker, Marcus Rediker (eds.), Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World''. (Berkeley: University of California Press). Ships of the Second Fleet 1779 ships Maritime incidents in 1796 Ships of the British East India Company