HMS Ceylon taken by Vénus |
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| Career (United Kingdom) | |
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| Name: | HMS Bombay |
| Launched: | 1793 |
| Acquired: | 1805 |
| Out of service: | 1838 |
| Renamed: | HMS Ceylon, 1 July 1808 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Frigate |
| Armament: | 38 guns |
HCS Bombay, later HMS Bombay and HMS Ceylon, was a 672 ton fifth rate, 38-gun wooden warship built in the Bombay Dockyard for the Honourable East India Company and launched in 1793. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1805 and renamed her HMS Bombay. She served with the Royal Navy under that name until 1 July 1808, when she became HMS Ceylon. She was sold at Malta in 1857.
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On 10 July 1807, under Captain William Jones Lye, she captured the French navy brig Jaseur some eight leagues off Little Andaman, after a chase of nine hours. Jaseur was armed with 12 guns and had a crew of 55 men under the command of a Lieutenant de vaisseau. She had left Île de France on 15 April and had made no captures.[1] The last distribution of the proceeds of the capture was made in August 1817.[Note 1]
On 17-18 September 1810, the Vénus and Revenant captured Ceylon while she was under the command of Charles Gordon. The next day, a British squadron composed of Boadicea, Otter and the brig Staunch recaptured her, and captured Vénus; Revenant managed to escape.
From c.1838 to 1852 she was the receiving ship at Malta, and from 1853 to 1855 the flagship of the Admiral superintendent there (Rear-Admiral Montagu Stopford and Admiral Houston Stewart[3] during this period).