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} |} 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. ==Service with the EIC== The EIC had ''Marquis Cornwallis'' built for long-range convoy escort duties. As such, she was a spar-decked frigate.〔 As of 1 January 1802 she was under the command of Captain Thomas Hardie. In December 1801, she sailed, together with the ''Upton Castle'' (an Indiaman), the ''Betsey'' ( an armed HEIC brig), some other vessels, and 1000 troops to Daman and Diu to persuade the Portuguese governor to resist any French incursion. The expedition was under the command of Captain John Mackellar, of the Royal Navy, whose own vessel, , was not ready for sea.〔Marshall (1824), Vol. 2, Part 1, p.219.〕 The governor accepted the British reinforcements, which, as it turned out, were not needed. ''Marquis Cornwallis'', under the command of Captain Isaac Godsalve Richardson, left Bombay on 7 Feb 1803, reaching St Helena on 12 May, and arriving at the Downs on 1 August.〔 On 8 May 1804, ''Marquis Cornwallis'' sailed from Portsmouth, still under Richardson's command. She sailed via St Helena to Bombay, where the company intended for her to remain.〔Hardy (1811), p.293.〕 She was convoying the ''Marquis of Ely'', the ''Marchioness of Exeter'', the ''Lord Nelson'', the ''Bruswick'', the ''Princess Charlotte'', the ''Marquis of Wellesley'', and the ''Ann''. 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 Cornwallis (1805)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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