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HMS Cornwallis (1805)

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History
Great Britain
Name: Marquis Cornwallis
Namesake: Marquess Cornwallis
Operator: Honourable East India Company
Builder: M/Shipwright Jemsetjee Bomanjee, Bombay
Launched: 1801
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
Name: HMS Cornwallis
Acquired:
  • March 1805 (by purchase)
  • Registered on 13 August 1806
Renamed: HMS Akbar in February 1811
Reclassified:
  • Storeship in February 1813
  • Frigate in March 1813
  • Troopship in 1817
  • Quarantine ship in 1824
  • Lazarette in 1827
  • Training ship in 1852
  • Quarantine vessel c. 1858
Honours and
awards:		 Naval General Service Medal (NGSM) with clasp "Java"
Fate: Sold 1869 for breaking up
General characteristics
Class and type: Fourth rate
Tons burthen: 1387  17⁄95, or 1360, or 1363 (bm)
Length:
  • 164 ft 4 1⁄2 in (50.102 m), or 171 ft 4 in (52.22 m) (overall)
  • 140 ft 7 7⁄8 in (42.872 m), or 139 ft 7 3⁄4 in (42.564 m)
Beam: 43 ft 1 1⁄4 in (13.138 m), or 42 ft 9 1⁄2 in (13.043 m)
Depth of hold: 15 ft 3 in (4.65 m), or 14 ft 10 1⁄2 in (4.534 m)
Complement: 430
Armament:
  • Frigate
  • Upper deck (UD): 30 x 24-pounder guns
  • QD: 26 x 42-pounder carronades
  • Fc:1 x 18 or 24-pounder gun
  • Troopship
  • UD: 22 x 32-pounder carronades + 2 x 9-pounder guns
  • QD: 8 x 32-pounder carronades
  • Fc:2 x 9-pounder guns

HMS Cornwallis was a Royal Navy 54-gun fourth rate. Jemsatjee Bomanjee built the Marquis Cornwallis of teak for the Honourable East India Company (EIC) between 1800 and 1801. In March 1805 Admiral Sir Edward Pellew purchased her from the Company shortly after she returned from a voyage to Britain. She served in the Far East, sailing to Australia and the Pacific Coast of South America before returning to India. In February 1811 the Admiralty renamed her HMS Akbar. She captured forts and vessels in the Celebes and Amboyna, and participated in the invasion of Isle de France, and the 1811 invasion of Java. She also served in the West Indies before being laid up at Portsmouth in December 1816. She then stayed in Britain in a number of stationary medical and training capacities until the Admiralty sold her in the 1860s.

The EIC had Marquis Cornwallis built for long-range convoy escort duties. As such, she was a spar-decked frigate. As of 1 January 1802 she was under the command of Captain Thomas Hardie.

In December 1801, she sailed, together with the Upton Castle (an Indiaman), the Betsey ( an armed HEIC brig), some other vessels, and 1000 troops to Daman and Diu to persuade the Portuguese governor to resist any French incursion. The expedition was under the command of Captain John Mackellar, of the Royal Navy, whose own vessel, Terpsichore, was not ready for sea. The governor accepted the British reinforcements, which, as it turned out, were not needed.

Marquis Cornwallis, under the command of Captain Isaac Godsalve Richardson, left Bombay on 7 Feb 1803, reaching St Helena on 12 May, and arriving at the Downs on 1 August. On 8 May 1804, Marquis Cornwallis sailed from Portsmouth, still under Richardson's command. She sailed via St Helena to Bombay, where the company intended for her to remain. She was convoying the Marquis of Ely, the Marchioness of Exeter, the Lord Nelson, the Bruswick, the Princess Charlotte, the Marquis of Wellesley, and the Ann.


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