HMS Malabar (1804)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Malabar and HMS Coromandel.

History
British East India Company
NameCuvera
NamesakeHindu god of wealth
OwnerLambert, Ross, & Co.
BuilderCalcutta
Launched12 September 1798
FateSold 30 May 1804
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Malabar
NamesakeMalabar Coast
Acquired30 May 1804
RenamedHMS Coromandel on 7 March 1815
Reclassified
FateBroken up in December 1853
General characteristics [1]
Class and type56-gun fourth rate
Tons burthen93556⁄94, or 93562⁄94[2] (bm)
Length
  • 168 ft 6 in (51.4 m) (overall)
  • 127 ft 4 in (38.8 m) (keel)
Beam37 ft 2 in (11.3 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement
  • 130 as East Indiaman;[3]
  • 150 as storeship
Armament
  • As East Indiaman: 24 × 6-pounder guns[3]
  • As fourth rate:
  • Lower deck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
  • Upper deck (UD): 24 × 24-pounder carronades
  • As storeship:
  • UD: 10 × 24-pounder carronades
  • QD: 6 × 24-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Malabar was a 56-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She had previously been the East Indiaman Cuvera, launched at Calcutta in 1798. She made one voyage to London for the British East India Company and on her return to India served as a transport and troopship to support General Baird's expedition to Egypt to help General Ralph Abercromby expel the French there. The Navy bought her in 1804 and converted her to a storeship in 1806. After being renamed HMS Coromandel she became a convict ship and made a trip carrying convicts to Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales in 1819. She spent the last 25 years of her career as a receiving ship for convicts in Bermuda before being broken up in 1853.

  1. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 113.
  2. ^ House of Commons (1814), p. 86.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference LoM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).