HMS Calcutta was an 84-gun second-rate ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, built in teak to a draught by Sir Robert Seppings and launched on 14 March 1831 in Bombay. She was the only ship ever built to her draught. She carried her complement of smooth-bore, muzzle-loading guns on two gundecks. Her complement was 720 men.
The hulks of HMS Calcutta (left) and HMS Cambridge (right) off Plymouth, c.1890
The Gallery of H.M.S. 'Calcutta' (Portsmouth), moored at Portsmouth about 1876, painted by Tissot
Calcutta at the capture of the Bocca Tigris forts in 1856
Michael Seymour (Royal Navy officer, born 1802)
Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, GCB was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.
Portrait of Admiral Seymour
1846 July 30, to New York from Raritan River
Approaching La Guaira, Venezuela