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HMS Bombay (1808)

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Name
  
HMS Bombay

Builder
  
Deptford Dockyard

Renamed
  
HMS Blake, 1819

Construction started
  
October 1805

Ordered
  
23 July 1805

Laid down
  
October 1805

Fate
  
Broken up, 1855

Launched
  
28 March 1808

HMS Bombay was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 March 1808 at Deptford.

On 24 January 1813 Bombay, then under the command of Captain Norman Thompson, detained the Dumpteur des Ondts.

Bombay was renamed HMS Blake in 1819 in honour of Admiral Robert Blake, and was converted to harbour service in 1828. She was broken up in December 1855.

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HMS Bombay (1808) Wikipedia