HMS Hindostan ( 1804 ) HMS " Hindostan " ( variously " Hindustan " ) was a 50 - gun two - decker fourth rate of the Royal Navy . She was originally a teak - built East Indiaman named " Admiral Rainier " that the Royal Navy brought into service in May 1804 . Perhaps her best known voyage was her trip to Australia in 1809 when she and " Dromedary " brought Governor Lachlan Macquarie to replace Governor William Bligh after the Rum Rebellion . East India Company . Hudson , Bacon & Co . built " Admiral Rainier " in Calcutta and launched her in 1799 . She originally carried 52 guns . In 1800 , she made one round trip to England under Captain William Lay , who was also her captain on her second , incomplete trip . She arrived in England for a second time in September 1803 . On 30 May 1804 the Admiralty purchased her from the East India Company and renamed her " Hindostan " . An earlier " Hindostan " had just been lost in April in a fire at sea , with almost no loss of life . Naval Service . Captain Mark Robinson commissioned her in July , and then Captain Alexander Fraser took command in August . He sailed her for the East Indies in early 1805 . There , together with , she fought the inconclusive Action of 21 April 1806 against " Canonnière " . " Tremendous " carried the brunt of the action but suffered no casualties . The French lost seven men killed and 25 wounded . Captain Bendall Littehalles recommissioned " Hindostan " in December 1806 . A year later she was repaired at Woolwich in January 1807 . Then in February Captain Thomas Bowen took command . On 28 June she sailed as a convoy escort to the Mediterranean , returning towards the end of the year . On 11 November , the Admiralty ordered her to be converted to a storeship and her guns were reduced from 54 to 22 , primarily by the removal of the guns on her lower deck . Commander Lewis Hole took command in December . In April 1808 her captain was Commander Fitzowen Skinner and she was with a squadron operating off Lisbon . Australia . In November 1808 she was recommissioned as a troopship under Commander John Pasco . On 29 March 1809 , " Hindostan " and " Dromedary " recaptured the " Gustavus " , of Charlestown . Pasco sailed " Hindostan " to New South Wales on 3 May 1809 . " Hindostan " and " Dromedary " brought with them Governor Lachlan Macquarie and the 1st Battalion of Macquarie ' s own regiment , the 73rd Regiment of Foot . Macquarie ' s first task was to restore orderly , lawful government and discipline in the colony following the Rum Rebellion against Governor William Bligh . The 73rd Foot was there to replace the New South Wales Corps . The vessels arrived on 28 December . " Hindostan " and " Dromedary " departed from Sydney on 12 May 1810 with a contingent of the 102nd Regiment of Foot ( New South Wales Corps ) and Governor Bligh and his family . Late career and fate . " Hindostan " was converted to a storeship in 1811 under Duncan Weir . " Hindostan " shared with , , , and in the American " droits " for " Phoenix " , " Margaret " , " Allegany " and " Tyger " , captured on 8 August 1812 . " Hindostan " was in the Mediterranean in 1815 , and then reverted to being a storeship in Woolwhich . On 22 September 1819 she was renamed " Dolphin " . She was hulked at Woolwich March 1824 as a prison ship . She was renamed " Justitia " in 1831 . She was finally sold on 24 October 1855 .