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Calcutta

HMS Calcutta

Survived

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
WarSecond Opium War
Main guns30 × 32-pounder guns

84-gun second rate built of teak at Bombay. Rear Admiral Sir Michael Seymour's flagship in China, 1856–59.

HMS Cambridge and HMS Calcutta. Right is HMS Cambridge, to her left is the Calcutta connected by a bridge. Amazingly HMS Cambridge fired inland over a mudflat using cloth targets on wooden struts stuck in the mud. The gunnery school was moved ashore to HMS Drake in 1907, so this picture obviously pr Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

84 guns

  • Gundeck: 30 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 32 × 24 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 6 × 24 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 24 pdrs, 4 × 32 pdr carronades
BuilderBombay Dockyard
Laid downMarch 1828
Launched14 March 1831
Length196 ft 1.66 in (59.7830 m) (gundeck)
Complement720 officers and ratings

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

She isn't listed in any of the fleet actions covered here.

Launched

14 March 1831

Fate

Survived

Sold, 1908