HMS Bombay

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Bombay", after the Indian city of Bombay, now Mumbai:

*HMS "Bombay" (1739) was a 24-gun ship launched in 1739 and burnt by accident in 1789 at Bombay. A Grab-armed cruiser - Designed by one Maratha Ghurab, and built at the Bombay dockyard out of teak from Malabar for an Indian prince, this ship had 24 guns and was 90 feet long. It was ordered in 1716 but captured by the British in 1706 and joined to the British East India Company's naval forces as HCS "Bombay" (the second largest ship in its Bombay fleet).
*HMS "Bombay" (1790) was a storeship in service in 1790.
*HMS "Bombay" (1805) was a 38-gun fifth rate of 639 tonnes launched in 1793. Ordered by the British East India Company in 1789 from the Bombay dockyard, she served as HCS "Bombay" until purchased by the Royal Navy in 1805. They rearmed her and she served with them as HMS "Bombay" and later HMS "Ceylon".
*HMS "Bombay" (1808) was a 74-gun Leviathan-class third rate launched at Bombay in 1808. She was renamed HMS "Blake" in 1819 and transferred to harbour service in 1828. She was broken up in 1855.
*HMS "Bombay" (1828) was an 84-gun second rate launched at Bombay in 1828. She was completed in 1861 as an 81-gun screw powered ship and was burnt by accident 14 miles off Montevideo, Uruguay in 1864.
*HMIS "Bombay" (1919) was a 125 ft long composite steam trawler used as a patrol vessel and minesweeper from 1919 to 1931.
*HMIS "Bombay" (1941), later INS "Bombay", was a "Bathurst" class corvette launched in 1941 and sold in 1960.

There was also HMS "Bombay Castle" (1782), a 74-gun third rate launched in 1782 and wrecked in 1796. She was ordered under the name "Bombay" in 1780, but was renamed before her launch.

ee also

*1915-19 and 1939-1940 - "Bombay" - A Grimsby trawler hired by the Royal Navy and converted into an unarmed Auxiliary Patrol Vessel. Though in Royal Navy service, she was not commissioned and does not count as an HMS "Bombay".
*INS "Mumbai" (D62), named after the same city following that city's name change, seen as the name-successor to HMIS/INS "Bombay"
*"Bombay" (ship) for non-Royal Navy and Royal Indian Navy ships of this name

ources

* [http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/Articles/Article14.html INS Mumbai - a photo essay]
*Colledge, "Ships of the Royal Navy"