HMS Carnatic

Two vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Carnatic after the Carnatic region:

• HMS Carnatic (1783) was a 74-gun Carnatic-class ship of the line launched in 1783. She was renamed Captain in 1815 and broken up in 1825.
• HMS Carnatic (1823) was a 72-gun Cornwallis-class ship of the line launched in 1823 but never commissioned. She was converted into a coal hulk in 1860 and a powder hulk in 1886 before being sold in 1914. She was broken up in Germany.

See also

• HMIS Carnatic (J199), a Royal Indian Navy Bangor-class minesweeper

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.