HMS Calcutta (1795)

Régulus stranded on the shoals of Les Palles, 12 April 1809; Calcutta is on the right, also aground.
History
East India CompanyGreat Britain
NameWarley
BuilderPerry & Co., Blackwall
Launched16 October 1788
FateSold to the Royal Navy in 1795
Royal Navy Ensign (1707–1801)Great Britain
NameHMS Calcutta[1]
Acquired9 March 1795
CommissionedMay 1795
FateCaptured by the French Navy, 26 September 1805
French Navy EnsignFrance
NameCalcutta
Captured26 September 1805
FateDestroyed by fire on 12 April 1809 at the Battle of the Basque Roads
General characteristics [2]
Type
Tons burthen1,175,[3][4] or 1,1757394 (bm)
Length
  • 156 ft 11 in (47.8 m) (overall);
  • 129 ft 7+34 in (39.5 m) (keel)
Beam41 ft 3+12 in (12.6 m)
Draught17 ft 2 in (5.2 m)
Complement
  • East Indiaman: 125[4]
  • Royal Navy: 324;[1] 160 as storeship
Armament
  • East Indiaman: 26 × 9-pounder guns[4]
  • Royal Navy:
  • Lower deck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
  • Upper deck: 26 × 32-pounder cannonades + 2 × 9-pounder guns

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.

  1. ^ a b HMS Calcutta Archived 17 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Naval Database
  2. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 111.
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  4. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference LoM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).