HMS Calcutta (1831)
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| Name: | HMS Calcutta |
| Ordered: | 4 April 1827 |
| Builder: | Bombay Dockyard |
| Laid down: | March 1828 |
| Launched: | 14 March 1831 |
| Fate: | Sold, 1908 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 84-gun second rate ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 2291 tons (2327.8 tonnes)[1] |
| Length: | 196 ft 1.66 in (59.783 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam: | 50 ft 9 in (15.5 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Complement: | 720 officers and men |
| Armament: |
84 guns:
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For other ships of the same name, see HMS Calcutta.
HMS Calcutta was an 84-gun second-rate ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, built in teak to a draught by Sir Robert Seppings and launched on 14 March 1831 in Bombay. She was the only ship ever built to her draught. She carried her complement of smooth-bore, muzzle-loading guns on two gundecks. Her complement was 720 men (38 officers, 69 petty officers, 403 seamen, 60 boys and 150 marines).[2] She saw action in the Opium Wars.
In 1865, she was converted to a gunnery ship, moored at Devonport, Devon, with HMS Cambridge.[3] She was sold to breakers in 1908. Her figurehead was acquired by Admiral Lord Fisher, then First Sea Lord, as she had been his first seagoing ship.[4]
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Lavery, p191.
- ^ Diaries of William King-Hall
- ^ HMS Cambridge and HMS Calcutta at Devonport
- ^ Morris, J. Fisher's Face, London (1994), p 196
- Mackay, Ruddock F. Fisher of Kilverstone. London: Oxford University Press, 1973.
- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
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