Two vessels of the
Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Carnatic'' after the
Carnatic region
The Carnatic region is the peninsular South Indian region between the Eastern Ghats and the Bay of Bengal, in the erstwhile Madras Presidency and in the modern Indian states of Tamil Nadu and southern Andhra Pradesh. During the British er ...
:
* was a 74-gun
''Carnatic''-class ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...
launched in 1783. She was renamed ''Captain'' in 1815 and
broken up in 1825.
* was a 72-gun
''Cornwallis''-class ship of the line launched in 1823 but never
commissioned. She was converted into a
coal hulk in 1860 and a
powder hulk
A hulk is a ship that is afloat, but incapable of going to sea. Hulk may be used to describe a ship that has been launched but not completed, an abandoned wreck or shell, or to refer to an old ship that has had its rigging or internal equipment ...
in 1886 before being sold in 1914. She was broken up in Germany.
See also
* , a
Royal Indian Navy ''Bangor''-class minesweeper
References
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Royal Navy ship names