Five ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Malabar'', after
Malabar
Malabar may refer to the following:
People
* Malabars, people originating from the Malabar region of India
* Malbars or Malabars, people of Tamil origin in Réunion
Places
* Malabar Coast, or Malabar, a region of the southwestern shoreline o ...
, a region of
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
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* HMS ''Malabar'' was a 54-gun
fourth rate
In 1603 all English warships with a compliment of fewer than 160 men were known as 'small ships'. In 1625/26 to establish pay rates for officers a six tier naval ship rating system was introduced.Winfield 2009 These small ships were divided i ...
, previously the
East Indiaman
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. The
Admiralty
Admiralty most often refers to:
*Admiralty, Hong Kong
* Admiralty (United Kingdom), military department in command of the Royal Navy from 1707 to 1964
*The rank of admiral
* Admiralty law
Admiralty can also refer to:
Buildings
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purchased her in 1795, but she foundered under tow in 1796.
* was a 56-gun fourth rate, previously the East Indiaman ''Cuvera''. The Admiralty purchased her in 1804 and had her rebuilt as a 20-gun storeship in 1806. She was renamed HMS ''Coromandel'' in 1815 and transported convicts to Australia in 1819. From 1828 to 1853, when she was broken up, she served as a
prison hulk
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, beginning a long association between this name and the colony.
* was a 74-gun
third rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third r ...
launched in 1818. She was used as a coal hulk from 1848 and was renamed HMS ''Myrtle'' in 1883. She was sold in 1905.
* was an iron screw
troopship
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launched in 1866. She became a base ship in 1897 and was renamed HMS ''Terror'' in 1901. She was placed on the sale list in 1914 and was sold in 1918.
* was a succession of shore establishments in Bermuda between 1919 and 1951, and 1965 and 1995.
Other
* was a 20-gun
sloop
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in Indian service in 1810.
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