HMS Calcutta

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Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Calcutta, after the Indian city of Calcutta (now Kolkata).

  • The first Calcutta was a 54-gun fourth-rate ship, originally the East Indiaman Warley and purchased in 1795, captured by the French in 1805 and destroyed by British ships in 1809.
  • The second Calcutta was an 84-gun second-rate ship launched in 1831, converted to a gunnery ship in 1865 and sold in 1908.
  • The fourth Calcutta was the gunboat Handy (1883), renamed in 1916.

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