HMS Coromandel

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Coromandel, after the Coromandel Coast of India:

• HMS Coromandel was a 56-gun fourth rate, previously the ex-Indiaman Winterton. She was purchased on the stocks in 1795, used as a storeship from 1800, was hulked in 1807 and sold in 1813.
• HMS Coromandel was the East Indiaman Cuvera, which the Admiralty bought in 1804 and converted to the 56-gun fourth rate HMS Malabar. She was rebuilt as a 20-gun storeship in 1806 and renamed HMS Coromandel in 1815. She transported convicts to Australia in 1819. From 1828 to 1853, when she was broken up, she served as a prison hulk in Bermuda.
• HMS Coromandel was a wooden paddle despatch vessel, previously the civilian Tartar, purchased in 1855. She was sold in 1866 to the Japanese, entering service with them as the Naruto. She was broken up in 1876.
• HMS Coromandel was a 4-gun wooden screw frigate launched in 1856 and in service until at least 1870.

Notes and references

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.