HMS Hindustan
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Five ships of the Royal Navy
have been named HMS Hindustan or Hindostan, after the old name
for the Indian subcontinent
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
have been named HMS Hindustan or Hindostan, after the old name
Hindustan
Hindustan or Indostan, literal translation "Land of River Sindhu ", is one of the popular names of South Asia. It can also mean "the land of the Hindus"...
for the Indian subcontinent
Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent, also Indian Subcontinent, Indo-Pak Subcontinent or South Asian Subcontinent is a region of the Asian continent on the Indian tectonic plate from the Hindu Kush or Hindu Koh, Himalayas and including the Kuen Lun and Karakoram ranges, forming a land mass which extends...
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- HMS HindostanHMS Hindostan (1795)HMS Hindostan was a 56-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was originally the East Indiaman Hindostan, and was bought by the Admiralty in 1795...
was a former East Indiaman by the same name. The Admiralty purchased her in 1795 and classed as a 54-gun fifth rate. She was converted into a storeship in 1802 and burnt in an accident in 1804. - HMS HindostanHMS Hindostan (1804)HMS Hindostan was a 50-gun two-decker fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She was originally a teak-built East Indiaman named Admiral Rainier that the Royal Navy brought into service in May 1804...
was another former East Indiaman, previously named Admiral Rainier. She was purchased in 1804 and classed as a 50-gun fifth rate. She was converted into a 20-gun storeship in 1811, renamed HMS DolphinHMS DolphinNumerous Royal Navy vessels have been named HMS Dolphin after the dolphin.* The first seven Dolphins were small ketches and fireships., launched in 1731, was a 20-gun post ship, renamed Firebrand in 1755 and Penguin in 1757., launched in 1751, was a 24-gun post ship...
in 1819, and HMS JustitiaHMS JustitiaFour ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Justitia, after the goddess Justitia, of Roman mythology:* HMS Justitia was a prison ship, formerly a merchant vessel, purchased in 1777 and in service until at least 1795....
in 1830, when she became a convict shipConvict shipThe term convict ship is a colloquial term used to describe any ship engaged on a voyage to carry convicted felons under sentence of penal transportation from their place of conviction to their place of exile.-Colonial practice:...
. She was sold in 1855. - HMS HindustanHMS Hindustan (1841)HMS Hindustan was an 80-gun two-deck second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 August 1841. Her design was based on an enlarged version of the lines of .She was used as a training ship from 1868, and was sold out of the navy in 1921....
was an 80 gun ship of the line launched in 1841. She became a training ship in 1868 and was renamed Fisgard III in 1905. She was renamed Hindostan in 1920 and was sold in 1921. - HMS HindustanHMS Hindustan (1903)HMS Hindustan was a King Edward VII class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy . Like all ships of the class she was named after an important part of the British Empire, namely the Indian Empire.-Technical characteristics:...
was an 18-gun twin propeller pre-dreadnoughtPre-dreadnoughtPre-dreadnought battleship is the general term for all of the types of sea-going battleships built between the mid-1890s and 1905. Pre-dreadnoughts replaced the ironclad warships of the 1870s and 1880s...
battleshipBattleshipA battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a...
of the King Edward VII classKing Edward VII class battleshipThe King Edward VII class was a class of pre-dreadnought battleships launched by the Royal Navy between 1903 and 1905.-Armament:By 1901, the 29 British battleships of the Majestic, Canopus, Formidable, London, Queen, and Duncan classes then in service or under construction, all following the same...
. She was launched in 1903, sold in 1921 and scrapped in 1923. - HMIS Hindustan (1930) was a Hastings classHastings class sloopThe Hastings class, also known as the Folkestone class, was a class of sloop which were built for the Royal Navy and the Royal Indian Navy in the interwar period...
sloopSloopA sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....
of the Royal Indian Marine launched in 1930. She was involved in the The Royal Indian Navy MutinyThe Royal Indian Navy MutinyThe Royal Indian Navy mutiny encompasses a total strike and subsequent mutiny by Indian sailors of the Royal Indian Navy on board ship and shore establishments at Bombay harbour on 18 February 1946...
in 1946. She was sold to the Pakistani Navy in 1948 and renamed Karsaz. She was broken up in 1951.
Other ships
- Hindostan was previously HMS CromerHMS Cromer (M103)HMS Cromer was a Sandown class minehunter commissioned by the Royal Navy in 1992. She was named after the North Norfolk seaside town of the same name....
, a Sandown classSandown class minehunterThe Sandown class is a class of minehunter originally built for the British Royal Navy). Sandown-class vessels also serve with the Royal Saudi Navy and the Estonian Navy...
minehunterMinehunterMinehunters are mine countermeasure vessels that actively detect and destroy individual naval mines. Minesweepers, on the other hand, clear mined areas as a whole, without prior detection of mines...
that took the name Hindostan when she became a static training ship in DartmouthDartmouth, DevonDartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is a tourist destination set on the banks of the estuary of the River Dart, which is a long narrow tidal ria that runs inland as far as Totnes...
in 2002. She is not commissioned and does not carry the prefix 'HMS' - There was an East Indiaman named HindostanHindostan (East Indiaman)Hindostan was an East Indiaman of the East India Company. She was a large vessel of 1,248 tons, built in 1796 to replace a previous Hindostan that the Royal Navy had bought and turned into a Fourth Rate ship of the line...
that was launched in 1789 and that made three trips to the Far East. She was wrecked while outbound in 1803. - There was another East Indiaman named Hindostan that was commissioned into the Royal NavyRoyal NavyThe Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
as HMS BuffaloHMS Buffalo (1813)HMS Buffalo was a storeship of the Royal Navy, originally built in India as the merchant vessel Hindostan. She later served as a convict ship and as transport for immigrants to Australia before being wrecked in 1840.-Launch and purchase:...
in 1813. - SS Hindostan (1842) was a P&OPeninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation CompanyThe Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, which is usually known as P&O, is a British shipping and logistics company which dated from the early 19th century. Following its sale in March 2006 to Dubai Ports World for £3.9 billion, it became a subsidiary of DP World; however, the P&O...
side paddle-wheel steamer that sank in a cyclone in Calcutta in 1864 while employed as a storeship. - SS Hindostan (1869) was a P&OPeninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation CompanyThe Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, which is usually known as P&O, is a British shipping and logistics company which dated from the early 19th century. Following its sale in March 2006 to Dubai Ports World for £3.9 billion, it became a subsidiary of DP World; however, the P&O...
steamer that was wrecked on a reef near Madras in 1879. - SS Hindostan (1863) was built for British & Eastern Shipping Co., which sold it in 1873 to the New Zealand Shipping Co. That company renamed it the Waitara. She sank in 1883 following a collision with Hurunui in the English Channel, with a loss of 20 lives.