&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Regulus_stranded_on_the_shoals_of_Les_Palles_August_12_1809.jpg) Régulus stranded on the shoals of Les Palles, 12 April 1809; Calcutta is on the right, also aground.
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Flag_of_the_British_East_India_Company_(1707).svg){kind=small} East India CompanyGreat Britain | |
| Name | Warley |
| Builder | Perry & Co., Blackwall |
| Launched | 16 October 1788 |
| Fate | Sold to the Royal Navy in 1795 |
&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:White_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_(1707%E2%80%931800).svg){kind=small} Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Calcutta[1] |
| Acquired | 9 March 1795 |
| Commissioned | May 1795 |
| Fate | Captured by the French Navy, 26 September 1805 |
&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Ensign_of_France.svg){kind=small} France | |
| Name | Calcutta |
| Captured | 26 September 1805 |
| Fate | Destroyed by fire on 12 April 1809 at the Battle of the Basque Roads |
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| Tons burthen | 1,175,[3][4] or 1,17573⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam | 41 ft 3+1⁄2 in (12.6 m) |
| Draught | 17 ft 2 in (5.2 m) |
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HMS Calcutta was the East Indiaman Warley, converted to a Royal Navy 56-gun fourth rate. This ship of the line served for a time as an armed transport. She also transported convicts to Australia in a voyage that became a circumnavigation of the world. The French 74-gun Magnanime captured Calcutta in 1805. In 1809, after she ran aground during the Battle of the Basque Roads and her crew had abandoned her, a British boarding party burned her.
- ^ a b HMS Calcutta Archived 17 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Naval Database
- ^ Winfield (2008), p. 111.
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