Maritime History

HMS Calcutta (1795)

HMS Calcutta was a 56-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Blackwall Yard in 1788 as the East Indiaman Warley, and made two trading voyages to the East Indies for the East India Company between 1789 and 1795. In 1795, the Royal Navy purchased her and renamed her Calcutta, designating the ship as a convoy escort. She also transported convicts to Australia in a voyage that became a circumnavigation of the world. In 1805, the 74-gun ship of the line Magnanime captured her, and the French Navy took the captured ship into service under her existing name. In 1809, Calcutta ran aground during the Battle of the Basque Roads, with her crew abandoning ship before a British boarding party burned the empty vessel.

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• ▸History of Plymouth
• ▸Favelas in the city of São Paulo
• ▸HMS Carron (1813)

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