History
British East India Company
BuilderBombay Dockyard
Launched1793
FateFoundered 1809
General characteristics [1][2]
Tons burthen68 (bm)
Sail planKetch
Armament12 × 3-pounder guns

HCS Strombolo (or Stromboli) was a ketch launched in 1793 Bombay Dockyard for the Bombay Marine.[3] Later she became a floating battery at Salsette Harbour, having been condemned as unseaworthy.

Still, she was pressed into service and sailed from Bombay in 1809 as part of an expedition against the pirates in the Persian Gulf. She foundered on 18 September or 15 October between Bombay and Gujarat while under tow by the British East India Company's cruizer Mornington. Her bottom dropped out and she sank quickly, taking with her all her stores and most of her officers and crew. Boats from Morington succeeded in rescuing her commander Lieutenant Hall, and 16 crew members; the rest drowned.[4] Another report gives the loss of lives as 2 officers and 14 men.[5]

Citations

  1. ↑ Phipps (1840), p. 164.
  2. ↑ Wadia (1986), p. 335.
  3. ↑ Hackman (2001), p. 341.
  4. ↑ "POSTSCRIPT". Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser (Exeter, England), 31 May 1810; Issue 2330.
  5. ↑ "East Indies". The Morning Chronicle. No. 12804. 24 May 1810.

References

  • Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.
  • Phipps, John (1840). A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time ... Scott.
  • Wadia, R. A. (1986) [1957]. The Bombay Dockyard and the Wadia Master Builders. Bombay.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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