HMS Hindustan

HMS Hindustan

Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS "Hindustan" or "Hindostan", after the old name for the Indian subcontinent:

*HMS "Hindostan" was a former East Indiaman, previously named "Born". She was purchased in 1795 and classed as a 54-gun fifth rate. She was converted into a storeship in 1802 and burnt in an accident in 1804.
*HMS "Hindostan" was another former East Indiaman, previously named "Admiral Rainer". She was purchased in 1804 and classed as a 50-gun fifth rate. She was converted into a 20-gun storeship in 1811, renamed HMS "Dolphin" in 1819, and HMS "Justitia" in 1830, when she became a convict ship. She was sold in 1855.
*HMS "Hindustan" was an 80 gun ship of the line launched in 1841. She became a training ship in 1868 and was renamed "Fisgard III" in 1905. She was renamed "Hindostan" in 1920 and was sold in 1921.
*HMS "Hindustan" was an 18-gun twin-screw pre-dreadnought battleship of the "King Edward VII" class. She was launched in 1903, sold in 1921 and scrapped in 1923.
*HMIS "Hindustan" was a "Hastings" class sloop of the Royal Indian Marine launched in 1930. She was involved in the The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny in 1946 and was sold to the Pakistani Navy in 1948 and renamed "Karsaz". She was broken up in 1951.

Other ships

*"Hindostan" was previously HMS "Cromer", a "Sandown" class minehunter that took the name "Hindostan" when she became a static training ship in Dartmouth in 2002. She is not commissioned and does not carry the prefix 'HMS'
*There was another East Indiaman named "Hindostan", which was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS "Buffalo" in 1813.


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