Perhaps the greatest coup was the wreck of "Lady Agatha" in 1768 with a cargo valued at £50,000 - none of which was recovered by authorities.
During his administration, a disabled Spanish ship, the St. Joseph and St. Helena, with a cargo valued at 400,000 Spanish dollars, ran aground near New London.
According to WH Moreland, the syndicates dominated by Virji bought the entire cargoes valued from 5 to 10 lakh of rupees.
The coal ship had departed from Liverpool with a cargo valued at £ 1 million.
In 2010, 4,811 ships entered the harbor carrying over 32.2 million metric tons of cargo valued at over $175 billion.
They handle more than 40 percent of the nation's seaborne cargo, valued at $320 billion a year, a large portion of it from Asia.
The shippers and consumers in these states depend on the inland waterways to move about 630 million tons of cargo valued at over $73 billion annually.
Cultivator (or Cultivateur), was a West Indiaman sailing from Demerara and Essequibo, with a cargo valued at 20,000.
The next day (3 March), Nereide recaptured the American ship Perseverance, of Baltimore, which was carrying a cargo valued at £30,000.
It was a fine prize, the Martha, out of London and bound for British-held New York with a cargo valued at 70,000 pounds.