HMS Malabar (1818)
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Career (UK) |
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Name: |
HMS Malabar |
Ordered: |
7 March 1815 |
Builder: |
Bombay Dockyard |
Laid down: |
April 1817 |
Launched: |
28 December 1818 |
Decommissioned: |
October 1848 |
Renamed: |
HMS Myrtle October 1883 |
Fate: |
Sold, July 1905 |
General characteristics [1] |
Class and type: | Repulse-class ship of the line |
Tons burthen: | 1715 bm |
Length: | 174 ft (53 m) (gundeck) |
Beam: | 47 ft 4 in (14.43 m) |
Depth of hold: | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
Propulsion: | Sails |
Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
Armament: | 74 guns:
- Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
- Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
- Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs
- Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs
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HMS Malabar was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 December 1818 at Bombay Dockyard.[1] In 1843, the Malabar assisted in rescuing survivors of the USS Missouri fire while in Gibraltar. She was hulked in October 1848, eventually becoming a coal hulk, and renamed Myrtle in October 1883. The hulk was sold out of the navy in July 1905.[2]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol.1, p. 189.
- ↑ Wilson, p. 15
References
- 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.
- Wilson, Bob (2009). "Fuelling the Victorian Navy". In Jordan, John. Warship 2009. London: Conway. pp. 10–21. ISBN 978-1-84486-089-0.