HMS Cornwallis (1805)

For other ships with the same name, see Marquis Cornwallis (ship), HMS Cornwallis, and HMS Akbar.

History
British East India Company
NameMarquis Cornwallis[a]
NamesakeMarquess Cornwallis
OperatorBritish East India Company
BuilderM/Shipwright Jemsetjee Bomanjee, Bombay
Launched1800
FateSold 1805
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Cornwallis
Acquired
  • March 1805 (by purchase)
  • Registered on 13 August 1806
RenamedHMS Akbar in February 1811
Reclassified
  • Storeship in February 1813
  • Frigate in March 1813
  • Troopship in 1817
  • Quarantine ship in 1824
  • Lazarette in 1827
  • Training ship in 1852
  • Quarantine vessel c. 1858
Honours and
awards		Naval General Service Medal (NGSM) with clasp "Java"[3]
FateSold 1869 for breaking up
General characteristics [4][5][b]
Class and typeFourth rate
Tons burthen138717⁄95, or 1360, or 1363[6] (bm)
Length
  • 164 ft 4+1⁄2 in (50.1 m), or 171 ft 4 in (52.2 m) (overall)
  • 140 ft 7+7⁄8 in (42.9 m), or 139 ft 7+3⁄4 in (42.564 m)
Beam43 ft 1+1⁄4 in (13.1 m), or 42 ft 9+1⁄2 in (13.0 m)
Depth of hold15 ft 3 in (4.6 m), or 14 ft 10+1⁄2 in (4.5 m)
Complement430
Armament
  • Frigate
  • Upper deck (UD): 30 × 24-pounder guns
  • QD: 26 × 42-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 1 × 18- or 24-pounder gun
  • Troopship
  • UD: 22 × 32-pounder carronades + 2 × 9-pounder guns
  • QD: 8 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Cornwallis was a Royal Navy 54-gun fourth rate. Jemsatjee Bomanjee built the Marquis Cornwallis of teak for the Honourable East India Company (EIC) between 1800 and 1801. In March 1805 Admiral Sir Edward Pellew purchased her from the Company shortly after she returned from a voyage to Britain. She served in the Far East, sailing to Australia and the Pacific Coast of South America before returning to India. In February 1811 the Admiralty renamed her HMS Akbar. She captured forts and vessels in the Celebes and Amboyna, and participated in the invasion of Isle de France, and the 1811 invasion of Java. She also served in the West Indies before being laid up at Portsmouth in December 1816. She then stayed in Britain in a number of stationary medical and training capacities until the Admiralty sold her in the 1860s.

  1. ^ Phipps (1840), p. 165.
  2. ^ Wadia, R. A. (1986) [1957]. The Bombay Dockyard and the Wadia Master Builders. Bombay. p. 334.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 244.
  4. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 122.
  5. ^ British Library: Marquis Conrwallis (2).
  6. ^ Hackman (2001), p. 335.


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