https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=HMS_BombayHMS Bombay - Revision history2026-09-07T09:02:18ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.6https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Bombay&diff=212236&oldid=prev>Derekbridges: fix sclass2021-11-01T13:47:22Z<p>fix sclass</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}}<br />
{{Use British English|date=December 2017}}<br />
A number of ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have borne the name '''''Bombay''''', after the [[India]]n city of Bombay, now [[Mumbai]]. Among them were:<br />
<br />
* {{HMS|Bombay|1790}} was a storeship in service in 1790.<br />
* {{HMS|Bombay|1805}} was a 38-gun [[fifth rate]] launched in 1793 for the [[East India Company]]. She served as ''Bombay'' until the Royal Navy purchased her in 1805. She served with the Royal Navy as HMS ''Bombay'' and later HMS ''Ceylon'' until she was sold in 1857. <br />
* {{HMS|Bombay|1808}} was a 74-gun ''Leviathan''-class [[third rate]] launched at Bombay in 1808. She was renamed HMS ''Blake'' in 1819 and transferred to harbour service in 1828. She was broken up in 1855.<br />
* {{HMS|Bombay|1828}} was an 84-gun [[second rate]] launched at Bombay in 1828. She was completed in 1861 as an 81-gun screw powered ship and was burnt by accident 14 miles off Montevideo, Uruguay in 1864.<br />
* {{ship|HMIS|Bombay|1919}} was a {{convert|125|ft|m|adj=mid|-long}} composite steam trawler used as a patrol vessel and minesweeper from 1919 to 1931.<br />
* {{ship|HMIS|Bombay|1941}}, later INS ''Bombay'', was a {{sclass|Bathurst|corvette}} launched in 1941 and sold in 1960.<br />
<br />
There was also {{HMS|Bombay Castle|1782|6}}, a 74-gun third rate launched in 1782 and wrecked in 1796. She was ordered under the name ''Bombay'' in 1780, but was renamed before her launch.<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
*1915–19 and 1939–1940 – ''Bombay'' – A Grimsby trawler hired by the [[Royal Navy]] and converted into an unarmed auxiliary patrol vessel. Though in Royal Navy service, she was not commissioned and does not count as an HMS ''Bombay''.<br />
* {{INS|Mumbai|D62}}, named after the same city following that city's name change, seen as the name-successor to HMIS/INS ''Bombay''<br />
* {{ship||Bombay|ship}} for non-Royal Navy and non-[[Royal Indian Navy]] ships of this name<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070809011354/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/Articles/Article14.html INS Mumbai – a photo essay]<br />
*Colledge, ''[[Ships of the Royal Navy]]''<br />
<br />
{{Ship index}}<br />
{{Italic title prefixed|3}}<br />
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bombay, Hms}}<br />
[[Category:Royal Navy ship names]]</div>>Derekbridges