HMS Hindustan

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Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hindustan or Hindostan, after the old name for the Indian subcontinent:

• HMS Hindostan was a former East Indiaman, previously named Born. She was purchased in 1795 and classed as a 54-gun fifth rate. She was converted into a storeship in 1802 and burnt in an accident in 1804.
• HMS Hindostan was another former East Indiaman, previously named Admiral Rainer. She was purchased in 1804 and classed as a 50-gun fifth rate. She was converted into a 20-gun storeship in 1811, renamed HMS Dolphin in 1819, and HMS Justitia in 1830, when she became a convict ship. She was sold in 1855.
• HMS Hindustan was an 80 gun ship of the line launched in 1841. She became a training ship in 1868 and was renamed Fisgard III in 1905. She was renamed Hindostan in 1920 and was sold in 1921.
• HMS Hindustan was an 18-gun twin-screw pre-dreadnought battleship of the King Edward VII class. She was launched in 1903, sold in 1921 and scrapped in 1923.
• HMIS Hindustan was a Hastings class sloop of the Royal Indian Marine launched in 1930. She was involved in the The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny in 1946 and was sold to the Pakistani Navy in 1948 and renamed Karsaz. She was broken up in 1951.

[edit] Other ships

• Hindostan was previously HMS Cromer, a Sandown class minehunter that took the name Hindostan when she became a static training ship in Dartmouth in 2002. She is not commissioned and does not carry the prefix 'HMS'
• There was another East Indiaman named Hindostan, which was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Buffalo in 1813.