HMS Cornwallis (1805)

History
British East India Company
Name	Marquis Cornwallis[a]
Namesake	Marquess Cornwallis
Operator	British East India Company
Builder	M/Shipwright Jemsetjee Bomanjee, Bombay
Launched	1800
Fate	Sold 1805
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Cornwallis
Acquired	March 1805 (by purchase) Registered on 13 August 1806
Renamed	HMS Akbar in February 1811
Reclassified	Storeship in February 1813 Frigate in March 1813 Troopship in 1817 Quarantine ship in 1824 Lazarette in 1827 Training ship in 1852 Quarantine vessel c. 1858
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal (NGSM) with clasp "Java"[3]
Fate	Sold 1869 for breaking up
General characteristics [4][5][b]
Class and type	Fourth rate
Tons burthen	138717⁄95, or 1360, or 1363[6] (bm)
Length	164 ft 4+1⁄2 in (50.1 m), or 171 ft 4 in (52.2 m) (overall) 140 ft 7+7⁄8 in (42.9 m), or 139 ft 7+3⁄4 in (42.564 m)
Beam	43 ft 1+1⁄4 in (13.1 m), or 42 ft 9+1⁄2 in (13.0 m)
Depth of hold	15 ft 3 in (4.6 m), or 14 ft 10+1⁄2 in (4.5 m)
Complement	430
Armament	Frigate Upper deck (UD): 30 × 24-pounder guns QD: 26 × 42-pounder carronades Fc: 1 × 18- or 24-pounder gun Troopship UD: 22 × 32-pounder carronades + 2 × 9-pounder guns QD: 8 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Cornwallis was a Royal Navy 54-gun fourth rate. Jemsatjee Bomanjee built the Marquis Cornwallis of teak for the Honourable East India Company (EIC) between 1800 and 1801. In March 1805 Admiral Sir Edward Pellew purchased her from the Company shortly after she returned from a voyage to Britain. She served in the Far East, sailing to Australia and the Pacific Coast of South America before returning to India. In February 1811 the Admiralty renamed her HMS Akbar. She captured forts and vessels in the Celebes and Amboyna, and participated in the invasion of Isle de France, and the 1811 invasion of Java. She also served in the West Indies before being laid up at Portsmouth in December 1816. She then stayed in Britain in a number of stationary medical and training capacities until the Admiralty sold her in the 1860s.

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