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} |} HMS ''Calcutta'' was the East Indiaman ''Warley'', converted to a Royal Navy 56-gun fourth rate. This ship of the line served for a time as an armed transport. She also transported convicts to Australia in a voyage that became a circumnavigation of the world. The French 74-gun ''Magnanime'' captured ''Calcutta'' in 1805. In 1809, after she ran aground during the Battle of the Basque Roads and her crew had abandoned her, a British boarding party burned her. ==East Indiaman== The East Indiaman ''Warley'' was built at John Perry's Blackwall Yard in 1788, the first vessel of the name that Perry built for the East India Company. She made two trading voyages to the Far East for the East India Company. ''Warley''s captain for her two voyages was Charles Wilson.〔National Archives: ''Warley'' (1),() - accessed 10 December 2014〕 Her letter of marque was issued on 7 September 1793.〔Letter of Marque,() – accessed 15 May 2011.〕 On her second voyage, in July 1793, ''Warley'', ''Triton'', and ''Royal Charlotte'', together with , participated in the capture of Pondicherry by maintaining a blockade of the port.〔''Universal Magazine'', January 1794, p. 60.〕 The Indiamen then sailed for China in early September. On their way to China, the same East Indiamen participated in an action in the Straits of Malacca. They came upon a French frigate, with some six or seven of her prizes, replenishing her water casks ashore. The three British vessels immediately gave chase. The frigate fled towards the Sunda Strait. The Indiamen were able to catch up with a number of the prizes, and after a few cannon shots, were able to retake them. The British restored the prizes to their crews and took the French prize crews as prisoners of war.〔''Monthly Magazine'', July 1812, p.595, referenced in: Kilpatrick & Crawley, p. 127.〕 Had they not carried letters of marque, such behaviour might well have qualified as piracy. When ''Warley'' was at Whampoa that December she joined other East Indiamen there, among which were several that on their return to Britain the Admiralty would purchase: ''Royal Charlotte'', ''Ceres'', ''Earl of Abergavenny'', and ''Hindostan''.〔Anderson (1795), p.448.〕 The British Government had chartered ''Hindostan'' to take Lord Macartney to China in an unsuccessful attempt to open diplomatic and commercial relations with the Chinese empire. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Calcutta (1795)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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