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Numerous vessels have borne the name Coromandel, named for the Coromandel Coast. Coromandel (1793 ship) was the French sailing ship Modeste, captured in 1793 and repaired at Chittagong, India (now Bangladesh). She made two convict transport voyages to Port Jackson, the first for the British East India Company (EIC). She last appears in Lloyd's Register in 1819. Coromandel (1806) was a sloop of 310 tons (bm), built in Philadelphia. Lloyd's Register for 1813 gives her master's name as E. Hunt, and her owner as Davy & Co. This may have been Coromandel, Messervy, master, that the letter of marque Echo, of Malta, captured on 18 September 1812 while Coromandel was sailing from Mocha, Yemen. Echo may have been the Echo, of 409 tons (bm), James Shaw, master, 35 crewmen, and ten 6-pounder guns, which had received a letter of marque on 4 February 1807. Echo sent Coromandel to Rio de Janeiro, where her own crew recaptured her the next day. They then sailed Coromondel to Salem, Massachusetts, where they arrived on 18 October. Coromandel (1820 ship), of 639 (or 643, or 645) tons burthen (bm), was built at Shields Yard, London, and launched in 1820. In the first mention of her in Lloyd's Register for 1820 in the supplemental pages, her owner is given as "Scott & Co.", and her trade as London to India. She made two voyages on charter to the EIC, at which time her principal managing owner was Joseph Hare. Under the command of Captain William Hunter, she left The Downs on 24 April 1820, bound for Madras. She stopped in at Madeira on 5 May, and reached Madras on 3 August. On her return leg she left Madras on 14 October and stopped at the Cape of Good Hope on 17 December; she arrived at Gravesend, Kent on 6 March 1821. Some years later she made a second voyage for the EIC, this one a one-way to Bengal. Under the command of Captain Thomas Boyes, she left Portsmouth on 12 July 1826. She stopped at Colombo on 19 November, and reached Calcutta on 24 January 1829. Under the command of Captain W. Loader she made a voyage to Australia. leaving Sheerness on 27 June 1838. She reached Hobart on 26 October. According to her surgeon, J. Tweedale, she had embarked 340 convicts, of whom 338 disembarked at Hobart. She was wrecked in 1856, or broken up in 1857. Coromandel (1834 ship) was a sailing ship built at Quebec in 1834. She was the first ship to bring settlers to South Australia after it was proclaimed a colony in 1836 (Coromandel Valley was named for her) and one of the early ships bringing New Zealand Company settlers to Wellington, New Zealand in 1840. She next carried passengers from Sydney to Melbourne, then in January 1841 took livestock and goods from Port Phillip (Melbourne) to Swan River Colony, Western Australia, in early 1841 and thence to Calcutta. She was last listed in Lloyds Register in 1855. Coromandel (1843 ship) was a 660 tons burthen (bm) wood ship built at Greenock in 1843 for Campbell. Her Captain was G. Poole and she sailed on the Glasgow- ...