Coromandel (1795)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Coromandel.
Career (East India Company)
Name: Winterton
Builder: Perry & Co., Blackwall Yard
Launched: 9 May 1795
Fate: Sold to the Royal Navy in 1795
Career (UK)
Name: HMS Coromandel
Acquired: 1795 by purchase
Fate: Sold 1813
Career (British)
Name: Coromandel
Acquired: 1813, by purchase
Fate: Wrecked 1856
General characteristics [1]
Class and type:Fourth rate in Royal Navy service; troopship 1796 & 1802; Convalescent ship from October 1807
Tons burthen:1334 41⁄94 (bm)
Length:169 ft 0 in (51.51 m) (overall)
139 ft 3 3⁄8 in (42.453 m) (keel)
Beam:42 ft 5 1⁄4 in (12.935 m)
Depth of hold:17 ft 2 in (5.23 m)
Sail plan:Full-rigged ship
Complement:4th Rate: 324
Transport:100[2]
Armament:4th Rate:

Lower deck: 28 x 18-pounder guns
Upper deck: 28 x 32-pounder carronades

Transport: 24 x 18 & 9-pounder guns[2]

HMS Coromandel was a 56-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy, previously the East Indiaman Winterton. She was purchased on the stocks in 1795, used as a troopship from 1796, was converted to a convalescent ship in 1807 for Jamaica, and was sold there in 1813. She returned to Britain around 1847 and was wrecked at Yarmouth in 1856.

Military career

The Royal Navy commissioned Coromandel in June 1795 under Captain John Inglis. The Admiralty must have been dissatisfied with her as they transferred her to the Transport Board in May 1796 and paid her off in July. Coromandel was recommissioned later that month as a troopship under the command of Lieutenant Richard Harrison. He received a letter of marque dated 15 July 1796.[2] The Navy then struck Coromandel off the Navy List on 9 August.[1]

Richard (or Robert) Simmonds replaced Harrison in 1797. Richard Simmonds received a letter of marque dated 17 November 1797.[2] A year later, on 7 November 1798, Coromandel was at the capture of Minorca. Her officers and crew therefore participated in their share of a partial payment of £20,000 for goods and stores captured at that time.[3] Another payment followed later.[4] Eight days after the fall of Minorca, on 15 November, Coromandel captured the Spanish ship Misericordia, of Minorca, which was carrying a cargo of paper.[5] As part of the British fleet, Coromandel shared in the prize money for the recapture of HMS Peterel on 13 November.[6]

Commander John Mortimer replaced Simmonds in July 1799, in the West Indies. He remained in command until some point in 1801. Between 15 March 1801 and 7 April, Coromandel participated in the capture of the islands of St Bartholomew, Saint Martin, St Thomas, and St. Croix as part of the expedition under Lieutenant General Thomas Trigge and Admiral John Duckworth.[7] On 4 January 1802 she ran ashore in Jamaica,[8] but was got off and on 18 January she sailed for Martinique.[9]

Coromandel was back in Britain by August 1802, being fitted at Chatham for service as a troopship.[1] She then spent the period June through October 1807 being fitted at Chatham as a convalescent ship for service in Jamaica. Coromandel was sold at Jamaica on 24 July 1813 to Mr. William Barnes for £700.[1]

Later career and fate

She returned to Britain around 1847 and was wrecked at Yarmouth in 1856.[10]

Citations

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Winfield (2008), p.113.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Register of Letters of Marque against France 1793-1815"; p.57. Accessed 13 April 2013]
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 15256. p. 466. 10 May 1800.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 15627. p. 1367. 6 October 1803.
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 15106. p. 137. 9 February 1799.
  6. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 16136. p. 523. 12 April 1808.
  7. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 15666. p. 66. 14 January 1804.
  8. ↑ Lloyd's List, no.4232, - accessed 14 November 2014.
  9. ↑ Lloyd's List, no.4238, - accessed 14 November 2014.
  10. ↑ Howard, A.J. "Bert" (2006) The Coromandel Files. - Accessed 24 April 2013.

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