Coromandel (ship)

Numerous vessels have borne the name Coromandel, named for the Coromandel Coast.

• Coromandel (1793) was the French sailing ship Modeste, captured in 1793 and repaired at Chittagong, India (now Bangladesh). She made two convict transport voyages to Port Jackson, the first for the British East India Company (EIC). She last appears in Lloyd's Register in 1819.
• Coromandel (1806) was a sloop of 310 tons (bm), built in Philadelphia. Lloyd's Register for 1813 gives her master's name as E. Hunt, and her owner as Davy & Co. This may have been the Coromandel, Messervy, master, that the letter of marque Echo, of Malta, captured on 18 September 1812 while Coromandel was sailing from Mocha, Yemen. Echo may have been the Echo, of 409 tons (bm), James Shaw, master, 35 crewmen, and ten 6-pounder guns, which had received a letter of marque on 4 February 1807.^[1] Echo sent Coromandel to Rio de Janeiro, where her own crew recaptured her the next day. They then sailed Coromondel to Salem, Massachusetts, where they arrived on 18 October.^[2]
• Coromandel (1820), of 639 (or 643, or 645) tons burthen (bm), was built at Shields Yard, London, and launched in 1820.^[3] In the first mention of her in Lloyd's Register for 1820 in the supplemental pages, her owner is given as "Scott & Co.", and her trade as London to India. She made two voyages on charter to the EIC, at which time her principal managing owner was Joseph Hare. Under the command of Captain William Hunter, she left The Downs on 24 April 1820, bound for Madras. She stopped in at Madeira on 5 May, and reached Madras on 3 August. On her return leg she left Madras on 14 October and stopped at the Cape of Good Hope on 17 December; she arrived at Gravesend, Kent on 6 March 1821. Some years later she made a second voyage for the EIC, this one a one-way to Bengal. Under the command of Captain Thomas Boyes, she left Portsmouth on 12 July 1826. She stopped at Colombo on 19 November, and reached Calcutta on 24 January 1829.^[4] Under the command of Captain W. Loader she made a voyage to Australia. leaving Sheerness on 27 June 1838. She reached Hobart on 26 October. According to her surgeon, J. Tweedale, she had embarked 340 convicts, of whom 338 disembarked at Hobart. She was wrecked in 1856,^[3] or broken up in 1857.^[5]
• Coromandel (1834) was a sailing ship built at Quebec in 1834. She was the first ship to bring settlers to South Australia after it was proclaimed a colony in 1836 (Coromandel Valley was named for her) and one of the early ships bringing New Zealand Company settlers to Wellington, New Zealand in 1840. She next carried passengers from Sydney to Melbourne, then in January 1841 took livestock and goods from Port Phillip (Melbourne) to Swan River Colony, Western Australia, in early 1841 and thence to Calcutta.^[6] She was last listed in Lloyds Register in 1855.
• Coromandel (1843) was a 660 tons burthen (bm) wood ship built at Greenock in 1843 for Campbell. Her Captain was G. Poole and she sailed on the Glasgow- Adelaide service.
• SS Coromandel (1872), of 1986 grt, was an iron, compound steam-engined merchant vessel built by Pile, William & Co., of Sunderland, and owned by J. & J. Wait. She foundered on a voyage to Liverpool after having left Bombay 30 June 1875.
• Coromandel (1875) was an 849-ton barque built at Glasgow in 1875 for John Fairlie. Shaw Savill Co chartered the boat to bring immigrants to New Zealand. She made seven voyages and was then sold in 1884 for use on the intercolonial trade. After being retired she was damaged and sank at the Railway Wharf in Wellington. The ship was refloated after 12 months by Thomas Carmichael and converted to a coal hulk.
• Coromandel (1885), was a 4,016-ton passenger liner built by Caird & Company Ltd, Greenock in 1885 for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O company) and used on the United Kingdom India route. She served as a transport and hospital ship in the Ashanti War from 1895-1896. She was sold and renamed Shah Noor in 1906, and scrapped in 1908.
• Coromandel (1948) was an 8,720-ton general cargo liner built by Barclay Curle & Co Ltd, Whiteinch, Glasgow for the P&O Company and used on the Europe India route until relocating to the Far East. She was sold and renamed Shun Hing in 1969. She was sold and renamed Hop Sing in 1973. She was scrapped 1973.

Royal Navy

• HMS Malabar was a 56-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She had previously been the East Indiaman Cuvera, which the Navy bought in 1804. The Navy converted her to a storeship in 1806. After being renamed HMS Coromandel she became a convict ship and made a trip carrying convicts to New South Wales in 1819. She spent the last 25 years of her career as a receiving ship for convicts in Bermuda before being broken up in 1853.
• Three other Royal Navy vessels have borne the name: HMS Coromandel

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References

• Hackman, Rowan (2001) Ships of the East India Company. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society). ISBN 0-905617-96-7