HMS Calcutta (1795)
Régulus stranded on the shoals of Les Palles, 12 April 1809; Calcutta is on the right, also aground. | |
| History | |
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| East India CompanyGreat Britain | |
| Name | Warley |
| Builder | Perry & Co., Blackwall |
| Launched | 16 October 1788 |
| Fate | Sold to the Royal Navy in 1795 |
| Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Calcutta |
| Acquired | 9 March 1795 |
| Commissioned | May 1795 |
| Fate | Captured by the French Navy, 26 September 1805 |
| France | |
| Name | Calcutta |
| Captured | 26 September 1805 |
| Fate | Destroyed by fire on 12 April 1809 at the Battle of the Basque Roads |
| General characteristics | |
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| Tons burthen | 1,175, or 1,17573⁄94 (bm) |
| Length |
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| Beam | 41 ft 3+1⁄2 in (12.6 m) |
| Draught | 17 ft 2 in (5.2 m) |
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HMS Calcutta was the East Indiaman Warley, converted to a Royal Navy 56-gun fourth rate. This ship of the line served for a time as an armed transport. She also transported convicts to Australia in a voyage that became a circumnavigation of the world. The French 74-gun Magnanime captured Calcutta in 1805. In 1809, after she ran aground during the Battle of the Basque Roads and her crew had abandoned her, a British boarding party burned her.