HMS Coromandel (1795)

Approaching Dover, by Thomas Whitcombe
History
East India Company
NameWinterton
BuilderPerry & Co., Blackwall Yard
Launched9 May 1795
FateSold to the Royal Navy in 1795
Royal Navy Ensign (1707-1801)Great Britain
NameHMS Coromandel
Acquired1795 by purchase
CommissionedJune 1795
FateSold 1813 for breaking up
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeFourth rate in Royal Navy service
Tons burthen1290, or 13344194 (bm)
Length
  • 169 ft 0 in (51.51 m) (overall)
  • 139 ft 3+38 in (42.453 m) (keel)
Beam42 ft 5+14 in (12.935 m)
Depth of hold17 ft 2 in (5.23 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement
  • 4th Rate: 324
  • Transport:100[2]
Armament
  • 4th Rate:
    • Lower deck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
    • Upper deck: 28 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Transport: 24 × 18 & 9-pounder guns[2]

HMS Coromandel was a 56-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy, previously the East Indiaman Winterton. She was purchased on the stocks in 1795, used as a troopship from 1796, was converted to a convalescent ship in 1807 for Jamaica, and was sold there in 1813.

  1. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 113.
  2. ^ a b "Register of Letters of Marque against France 1793-1815". 1812privateers.org. p. 57. Archived from the original on 10 April 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2013.