Bombay (ship)
Bombay grab, unknown artist c. 1780, British Library
Several ships have been named after Bombay (now Mumbai):
- c. 1700 - Merchant ship of the British East India Company attacked by Kanhoji Angre
- Bombay was a 90-foot, 24-gun grab launched in 1739 and burnt by accident in 1789 at Bombay. She was built at the Bombay Dockyard of teak from Malabar for the British East India Company's naval forces. She was the second largest ship in the EIC's Bombay Marine at the time.
- 1742 - Sloop of the Bengal Pilot Service as a non-combatant vessel
- 1750 - Grab armed 90-foot (27 m) cruiser of 32 guns
- 1808-1870 - A 26-gun, 1228 ton armed merchantman trading with China that fought at the Malacca Straits in 1810, and was broken up in Bombay in 1870
- 1821 - Gunboat of the British East India Company
- 1835 - 62-tonne schooner involved in coastal trade
- 1872-1905 - Light vessel at the outer limits of Bombay Harbour
- Several instances of HMS Bombay and HMIS/INS Bombay
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