Maritime History

HMS Malabar (1818)

HMS Malabar was a 74-gun third-rate Repulse-class ship of the line built for the Royal Navy in the 1810s. She was not commissioned until 1832 and served with the Mediterranean Fleet and the North America and West Indies Station. The ship ran aground in 1838, but was quickly refloated. Her crew assisted with the fire that destroyed the American paddle frigate USS Missouri in 1843 and rescued many of the ship's survivors. Malabar was converted into a coal hulk in 1838 and was renamed Myrtle in 1883. The ship was sold out of the service in 1905.

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See also

• ▸HMS Saldanha (1809)
• ▸Geoffroy's tamarin
• ▸Chennai

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