HMS Coromandel

"HMS Coromandel" has been the name of at least three ships in the British Royal Navy, the name coming from the Coromandel Coast of India

*"Coromandel" was the ex-Indiaman "Winterton". She was bought by the Admiralty in 1795, converted to a third rate 64-gun ship and renamed Coromandel. [http://www.eicships.info/ships/shipdetail.asp?sid=1265 East India Company ships: Winterton] ] In 1807 she was hulked in Jamaica and sold in 1813, on condition she was broken up.

*"Coromandel" was a tender to HMS "Dromedary". She gave her name to the town of Coromandel, New Zealand and the peninsula on which it is situated near the Hauraki Gulf when she visited the area in 1820 to acquire kauri spars. [ [http://www.thepeninsula.co.nz/coromandel/history.htm Coromandel Town web site] ] In 1827, she became a convict ship. [ [http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1283 Mid-Victorian ships: Coromandel (1)] ]

*"Coromandel" was a paddle-driven gunboat, formerly the P&O paddle-steamer "Tartar", built in 1833, and acquired by the Royal Navy in 1856. [ [http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1284 Mid-Victorian ships: Coromandel (2)] ] She served as the yacht of the commander-in-chief of the China Station from 1856-1865 and was the first vessel commanded (albeit briefly) by Admiral of the Fleet "Jackie" Fisher. [ Mackay, Ruddock F. "Fisher of Kilverstone". London: Oxford University Press, 1973. pp 14 & 20.]

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