Approaching Dover, by Thomas Whitcombe
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History | |
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East India Company | |
Name | Winterton |
Builder | Perry & Co., Blackwall Yard |
Launched | 9 May 1795 |
Fate | Sold to the Royal Navy in 1795 |
Great Britain | |
Name | HMS Coromandel |
Acquired | 1795 by purchase |
Commissioned | June 1795 |
Fate | Sold 1813 for breaking up |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Fourth rate in Royal Navy service |
Tons burthen | 1290, or 133441⁄94 (bm) |
Length |
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Beam | 42 ft 5+1⁄4 in (12.935 m) |
Depth of hold | 17 ft 2 in (5.23 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement |
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Armament |
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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.