HMS Bombay was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 February 1828 at Bombay Dockyard.
HMS Bombay
HMS Bombay on fire. A hand-coloured, photographic print of a painting by Richard Brydges Beechey, National Maritime Museum collection.
Charles Elliot (1818–1895)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he was involved in the bombardment of Acre during the Egyptian–Ottoman War.
Elliot leading gunboats to attack the Chinese war-junks at the Battle of Escape Creek during the Second Opium War
The base ship HMS Pembroke, Elliot's flagship as Commander-in-Chief, The Nore