page_title: HMS Hindostan (1795)
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Hindostan (1795)
caption_attribution_description: English: Oil on canvas, 55.9 x 86.4 cm
context_page_description: HMS Hindostan was a 56-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was originally the East Indiaman Hindostan, launched in 1789, that the Admiralty bought in 1795. She is known for two events, her voyage to China between 1792 and 1794 when she carried Lord George Macartney on a special embassy to China, and her loss in a fire at sea in 1804.
context_section_description: HMS Hindostan (later variously Hindustan) was a 56-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was originally the East Indiaman Hindostan, launched in 1789, that the Admiralty bought in 1795. She is known for two events, her voyage to China between 1792 and 1794 when she carried Lord George Macartney on a special embassy to China, and her loss in a fire at sea in 1804.
caption: The East Indiaman Hindostan, by Thomas Luny, National Maritime Museum
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