HMS Calcutta (1795)
Régulus stranded on the shoals of Les Palles, 12 April 1809; Calcutta is on the right, also aground.
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| Name: | Warley |
| Builder: | Perry & Co., Blackwall |
| Launched: | 16 October 1788 |
| Fate: | Sold to the Royal Navy in 1795 |
 Great Britain
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| Name: | HMS Calcutta |
| Acquired: | 9 March 1795 |
| Fate: | Captured by the French Navy, 26 September 1805 |
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| Name: | Calcutta |
| Captured: | 26 September 1805 |
| Fate: | Destroyed by fire on 12 April 1809 at the Battle of the Basque Roads |
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| Tons burthen: | 1175, or 1175 73⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 41 ft 3 1⁄2 in (12.6 m) |
| Draught: | 17 ft 2 in (5.2 m) |
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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. She also transported convicts to Australia in a voyage that became a circumnavigation of the world. The French 74-gun Magnanime captured Calcutta in 1805. In 1809, after she ran aground during the Battle of the Basque Roads and her crew had abandoned her, a British boarding party burned her.
The East Indiaman Warley was built at John Perry's Blackwall Yard in 1788, the first vessel of the name that Perry built for the East India Company. She made two trading voyages to the Far East for the East India Company. Warley's captain for her two voyages was Henry Wilson. He received a letter of marque on 7 September 1793.
Captain Henry Wilson sailed from Falmouth on 8 March 1789, bound for [{Chennai|Madras]] and China. Warley reached Madras on 22 June, left on 9 August, and arrived at Whampoa on 28 September. Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 11 February 1790, reached St Helena on 28 April, and arrived at the Downs on 23 June.
Captain Henry Wilson sailed from the Downs on 19 January 1793, again bound for Madras and China. Warley reached the Cape of Good Hope on 3 April, and arrived at Madras on 30 May.
By 6 July Warley was off Pondicherry with Admiral Cornwallis's squadron.Warley, Triton, and Royal Charlotte, together with HMS Minerva, participated in the capture of Pondicherry by maintaining a blockade of the port. By 28 August Warley was back at Madras. The Indiamen then sailed for China in early September.
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