HMS Abergavenny (1795)

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• Earl of Abergavenny

East India Company:

• 26 guns ( 12 pounds and 9 pounds )

Royal Navy:

• 26 × 32- pounder carronades
• 30 × 18 -pounder guns

The HMS Abergavenny was originally the Earl of Abergavenny, and was built as an East Indiaman of the East India Company 1788/1789 in Harwich, England. The ship's name is based on the British noble family of that name.

As Earl of Abergavenny took the ship under the command of John Wordsworth senior, the uncle of William Wordsworth, in 1790 their first ride. The ship left Portsmouth on January 30, 1790, drove over Bombay and Penang to Whampoa. On August 17, 1791, she returned to England. With a letter of marquee ( German: Letter of Marque ) equipped, the ship was armed and left Portsmouth under John Wordsworth senior again on 22 May 1793 to sail over Manila to Whampoa. On September 7, 1794 she was back in England.

In April 1795, the Earl of Abergavenny was provided by the Royal Navy in service and renamed after the town in Monmouthshire, Wales, Abergavenny.

The Abergavenny sailed under the command of Captain Edward Tyrell Smith from Portsmouth to Cork and transported troops to Jamaica. From 1796 to 1807 the ship under various commanders was stationed at Port Royal in Jamaica. The Abergavenny brought together with their associated auxiliary ships between November 1798 and July 1799 to thirteen ships. Several ships were still applied under its responsibility in the subsequent time.

1807 Abergavenny was tried and scrapped out of service.