HMS ''Carnatic'' 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).
Rating
When the rating system was f ...
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 tactics in the Age of Sail, naval tactic known as the line of battl ...
of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom ...
, launched on 21 January 1783 at
Deptford Wharf
Deptford Wharf in London, United Kingdom, is on the Thames Path southeast of South Dock, Rotherhithe, South Dock Marina, across the culverted mouth of the Earl's Sluice and north of Aragon Tower. In the late 18th and early 19th century this are ...
.
[ The British ]East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...
paid for her construction and presented her to the Royal Navy.
Sometime prior to 16 September 1799 the American schooner "Violet" was capsized and sunk by a waterspout at (). 14 days later they were rescued by Carnatic. Four perished during the ordeal.
On 11 May 1801 she, in company with HMS Sans Pareil and HMS Cumberland, made contact with USS Ganges in the West Indies, Lat 22.01 N.[
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Citations
References
*Hackman, Rowan (2001) ''Ships of the East India Company''. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society).
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Ships of the line of the Royal Navy
Courageux-class ships of the line
1783 ships
Ships built in Deptford
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