Five ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dromedary, after the
dromedary:
HMS Dromedary (1777) was a 30-gun
storeship, formerly the British
East India Company's
East IndiamanDuke of Cumberland, launched in 1765. She made four voyages to China or India for the East India Company.[1] The Admiralty purchased her in 1777, for service as an armed escort ship. She was registered as a
fifth rate from 1779. She was broken up in 1783.
HMS Dromedary was a 24-gun storeship, originally launched in 1782 as the 44-gun
fifth rateHMS Janus. She was converted to a storeship and renamed Dromedary in 1788, and was wrecked in 1800.
HMS Dromedary was a 24-gun storeship, formerly the merchant Kaikusroo. She was purchased in 1805 as a 40-gun and named
HMS Howe, and then HMS Dromedary in 1806. In 1809 she carried
Lachlan Macquarie to the colony of NSW, as the replacement governor for
William Bligh. [2] In 1819 she was re-commissioned as a
convict ship and ferried convicts to Tasmania. She was then re-fitted as a timber transport and collected timber spars before returning to England.[2] In the 1830s she sailed for
Bermuda, where she was converted to a
prison hulk, and subsequently broken up in 1864.[2]
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