High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HCS Bombay, later HMS Bombay and HMS Ceylon, was a 672 ton fifth rate, 38 gun wooden warship built in the Bombay Dockyard for the Honourable East India Company and launched in 1793. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1805 and renamed her HMS Bombay. She served with them under that name, and from 1 July 1808 as HMS Ceylon, until 1857. On 17-18 September 1810, under the command of Charles Gordon, she was captured by Venus and Victor. The next day, she was retaken by a British squadron composed of HMS Boadicea, HMS Otter and the brig HMS Staunch. Venus was captured, and Victor managed to escape.

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