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| Name | Calcutta (1831) | Explanation | |
| Type | Second rate | ||
| Launched | 14 March 1831 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 2299 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 84 | ||
| Fate | 1908 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1865 gunnery ship | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| (January 1840) | Out of commission at Plymouth | ||
| 22 August 1840 - 17 May 1842 | Commanded (from commissioning) by Captain Samuel Roberts, Mediterranean, and Lisbon (until invallided) | ||
| 18 May 1842 - 21 November 1842 | Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain George Frederick Rich, particular service | ||
| 28 April 1854 - 2 March 1856 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Captain James John Stopford, Devonport, then Portsmouth, then transport to and from the Baltic during the Russian war | ||
| 3 March 1856 - 9 August 1859 | Commanded by Captain William King Hall, flagship of Rear-Admiral Michael Seymour, East Indies (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) | ||
| 26 February 1858 - 12 August 1859 | Commanded by Commander James Graham Goodenough, East Indies and China (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) | ||
| 28 April 1858 - 11 September 1858 | Commanded by Commander Sholto Douglas, East Indies (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Ma 7 February 1842 | The Revenge, 78, Hon. Captain Waldegrave, is expected home every day to be paid off. She was at Lisbon on the 24th ult. with the Indus and Lynx. On the 21st ult. the Malabar, Calcutta, Cambridge and Lizard steamer, were at Gibraltar; and on the 22d the Vernon frigate, with four French ships of war, was at Cadiz. | ||
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