HCS Coote (1827)

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Capture of Aden on a 1939 stamp marking the centenary
History
Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg East India Company
OperatorEast India Company
Launched1827 [1]
FateWrecked in 1845, later sank during attempted salvage
General characteristics
TypeSloop of war
Tons burthen420 [2] [1] (bm)
DecksOne
Armament18 cannon [2] [1]

HCS Coote was a sloop-of-war that served the British East India Company (EIC) during the 19th century. [3] The Bombay Dockyard launched Coote in 1827. [4] Though the EIC built Coote, her size and armament were equivalent to the retired Cruizer-class brig-sloops.

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Coote participated in the 1839 Aden Expedition along with HCS Mahi and the frigate HMS Volage and the brig HMS Cruizer of the British Royal Navy. [5]

Fate

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″N75°46′00″E / 11.23333°N 75.76667°E / 11.23333; 75.76667 ). [lower-alpha 1] 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

  1. ↑ One source gives the year of loss as 1846. [6] Two sources give the date of loss as 1 December 1855, [1] or simply as 1855. [4]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 Wadia (1986), p. 342.
  2. 1 2 Phipps (1840), pp. 165 & 169.
  3. ↑ Low (1877), p. 18.
  4. 1 2 Hackman (2001), p. 328.
  5. ↑ Clowes, pg. 277-279
  6. ↑ Colledge & Warlow (2006), p.89.
  7. ↑ Allen's Indian mail and register of intelligence for British and foreign India: 1846, pp.48 & 75.
  8. ↑ Bengal Catholic Herald (3 January 1846), Vol. 10, Issue 1, p.1.
  9. ↑ Allen's Indian mail and register of intelligence for British and foreign India: 1846, p.341.

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