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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=[1] | Canopus|ship of the line|3}} | Ship tons burthen=2279 bm | 193|ft|10|in|m|abbr=on}} (gundeck) | 52|ft|4.5|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 22|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship sail plan=Full rigged ship | Ship propulsion=Sails | Ship complement= | Ship armament=*84 guns:- Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders, 2 × 68-pounder carronades
- Upper gundeck: 32 × 24-pounders
- Quarterdeck: 6 × 24-pounders, 10 × 32-pounder carronades
- Forecastle: 2 × 24-pounders, 4 × 32-pounder carronades
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}} | HMS Bombay was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 February 1828 at Bombay Dockyard.[1]She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1861. On 8 December 1864, members of the crew fielded a rugby side to play against the Buenos Aires Cricket Club in their first official rugby game and opening of the BACC's new game field in Parque Tres de Febrero in Palermo, Buenos Aires, located where the Galileo Galilei planetarium is today. That day the BACC defeated the Bombay team by 85 runs to 31.[2] The ship would be destroyed in a fire on the River Plate, in a freak target practice accident. Her efficient ventilation system spread the fire of unknown origin during the target practice off Uruguay near Isla da Floes near Montevideo in the River Plate on 14 December 1864, destroying her and costing the lives of 93 of her crew of 619.[3][4] Notes1. ^1 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 190.
2. ^"Historia del Club" at BACRC official website
3. ^Gossett (1986), p.117.
4. ^{{cite web |last1=Davis |first1=P. |title=Loss of Her Majesty's ship Bombay |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/Bombay.php |website=William Loney RN - Life and Career |accessdate=30 September 2018}}
References{{refbegin}}- {{cite book|last=Gossett|first=William Patrick|year=1986|title=The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900|publisher=Mansell|isbn=0-7201-1816-6}}
- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. {{ISBN|0-85177-252-8}}.
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