HMS Ceylon (launched as Bombay, 1805)
HMS Ceylon (launched as Bombay, 1805)


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NameCeylon (launched as Bombay, 1805)Explanation
TypeFifth rate   
Acquired1805
HullWooden
PropulsionSail
Builders measure672 tons
Displacement 
Guns38
Fate1857
Class 
Ships book
Note1793 launched in Bombay.
1805 purchased.
1808.07.01 = Ceylon
Snippets concerning this vessels career
DateEvent
1 July 1808Renamed Ceylon
28 July 1838Commanded by Lieutenant William Robert Mends, receiving ship, Malta
21 March 1843Commanded by Lieutenant Roger Curtis, receiving ship, Malta
2 April 1846Commanded by Commander Thomas Graves, receiving ship, Malta
23 April 1847Commanded by Captain Thomas Graves, receving ship, Malta
Extracts from the Times newspaper
DateExtract
We 21 November 1855

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 20.

By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Indus, Captain Soy, with the India and Mediterranean mails, we have dates from Alexandria to November 6, Malta 10, and Gibraltar 15.
The Indus brings 52 passengers, and on freight one package of specie, value 100l., and a cargo, consisting of 84 boxes of almonds, 230 boxes of raisins, 47 barrels and six boxes of dates, 10 cases of musk, one case of pictures, two cases of cigars, 718 bales of silk, eight bales of wool, two hogsheads of wine, 50 cases of silk, 30 packages of samples, 21 cases of shawls, 17 packages of effects, nine packages of elephants' teeth, one case of tortoiseshell, and 80 packages of general merchandise.
Her Majesty's ships Hibernia, London, Rodney, Wasp, Niger, Vulcan, Shearwater, and Ceylon, were at Malta.


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