HMS Coromandel

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HMS Coromandel has been the name of ships in the British Royal Navy, the name coming from the Coromandel Coast of India

• The first Coromandel was a tender to HMS Dromedory. It gave its name the town of Coromandel, New Zealand and the peninsula on which it is situated near the Hauraki Gulf when it visited the area in 1820 to acquire kauri spars.

• the second Coromandel was a gunboat, formerly the P&O paddle-steamer Tartar built in 1833.