HMS Calcutta was the East Indiaman Warley, converted to a Royal Navy 56-gun fourth rate. This ship of the line served for a time as an armed transport...
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the Royal Navy have been named HMS Calcutta, after the Indian city of Calcutta (now Kolkata). The first HMS Calcutta (1795) was a 54-gun fourth rate, originally...
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HMS Calcutta was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, named after the Indian city of Calcutta. She was part of the Carlisle group of the C class...
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HMS Albatross was the name vessel of her class of brig-sloops. She was built of fir and launched in 1796. She captured two privateers in the North Sea...
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cruisers HMS Calcutta, flagship of the America and West Indies Station, and Capetown (another C-class cruiser, HMS Curlew, was offshore), the sloop HMS Wistaria...
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No. 1 (AFD1), the cruisers HMS Calcutta, flagship of the America and West Indies Station, and HMS Capetown, the sloop HMS Wistaria (which was in the submerged...
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HMS Caroline was a 36-gun fifth-rate Phoebe-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was designed by Sir John Henslow and launched in 1795 at Rotherhithe by...
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The Amazon-class frigates of 1795 were a set of four 36-gun sailing frigates built for the Royal Navy and designed by William Rule. The first pair were...
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on the America and West Indies Station, Roskill assisted in rescuing HMS Calcutta from almost certain destruction during the 1926 Havana–Bermuda hurricane...
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the French privateer schooners Dorade and Honfleur. HMS Duchess of York was launched at Calcutta in 1801. She served in the expedition to the Red Sea...
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