Talk:HMS Malabar (1818)

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Nicholas Condy edit

Apparently Nicholas Condy painted (Title) "HMS Malabar leaving a harbour-Captain Sir W. Montague", signed N. Condy 1832. William Augustus Montagu took command of HMS Malabar in 1834 and remained on her until 1837 in the Mediterranean. So he may well have commissioned Nicholas Condy the year he assumed command? Can't find this painting though. Broichmore (talk) 18:14, 5 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

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HMS Malabar was a 74-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1818 at Bombay Dockyard. In 1838, Malabar ran aground off Prince Edward Island in British North America and was damaged, with the loss of two crew members. She was refloated later that year and towed into Three Rivers in Lower Canada. In August 1843, Malabar, under the command of Sir George Sartorius, assisted in fighting a fire that destroyed the United States Navy sidewheel frigate USS Missouri at Gibraltar, taking aboard about 200 of that ship's survivors. Malabar was converted to a hulk in 1848, eventually becoming a coal hulk, and was renamed Myrtle in 1883. The hulk was sold out of the navy in 1905. This lithograph from around 1843 shows the crew of Malabar watching as Missouri explodes and burns in the distance.

Lithograph credit: Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton, after Edward Duncan and George Pechell Mends; restored by Adam Cuerden