HCS Coote
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| Operator | East India Company |
| Launched | 1827[1] |
| Fate | Wrecked in 1845, later sank during attempted salvage |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Sloop of war |
| Tons burthen | 420[2][1] (bm) |
| Decks | One |
| Armament | 18 cannons[2][1] |
HCS Coote was a 18-gun sloop-of-war of the Bombay Marine and Indian Navy. [3] She was launched at the Bombay Dockyard in 1827.[4] Though the East India Company (EIC) built Coote, her size and armament were equivalent to the retired Cruizer-class brig-sloops. Coote participated in the 1839 Aden Expedition along with HCS Mahi and the frigate HMS Volage and the sloop HMS Cruizer of the Royal Navy.[5]
Fate
[edit]Coote was lost on 1 December 1845. She had left Bombay on 22 November, and wrecked at Calicut, on the Malabar Coast, on what became known as Coote Reef (11°14′00″N 75°46′00″E / 11.23333°N 75.76667°E).[a] Her officers and crew abandoned her as unsalvageable on 3 December. Her captain, Lieutenant J.S. Grieve, his officers, and crew all survived. All her guns, and a great deal of her stores and ammunition were saved.[7][8] The EIC was able, eventually, to get her off the rocks. The company decided to sell the hull at Calicut rather than attempt to tow it to Bombay. A Calicut resident bought the hull for 10,000 rupees, but as she was being towed on shore where her leaks might be repaired, she sank into mud and appeared a total loss.[9]
Notes
[edit]Citations
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Wadia (1986), p. 342.
- 1 2 Phipps (1840), pp. 165 & 169.
- ↑ Low (1877), p. 18.
- 1 2 Hackman (2001), p. 328.
- ↑ Clowes, pg. 277-279
- ↑ Colledge & Warlow (2006), p.89.
- ↑ Allen's Indian mail and register of intelligence for British and foreign India: 1846, pp.48 & 75.
- ↑ Bengal Catholic Herald (3 January 1846), Vol. 10, Issue 1, p.1.
- ↑ Allen's Indian mail and register of intelligence for British and foreign India: 1846, p.341.
References
[edit]- Clowes, W. Laird; et al. (1897–1903). The Royal Navy: A history from the earliest times to the present. Vol. 4. Boston / London: Little, Brown and Co. / S. Low, Marston and Co.
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (3rd Rev ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
- Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.
- Low, Charles Rathbone (1877). History of the Indian Navy: (1613-1863). R. Bentley and son.
- 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.
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