The
'Seringapatam' was named after a victory by British
troops over Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore in 1798,
which finally gave the East India Company control over
the south-west Indian state. She was one of the first
ships to be built at the Blackwall yard in London after
the East India Company lost its monopoly of trade with
the East in the 1830s. The ships were known as 'Blackwall
frigates' |