HMS Madras explained

Several ships that have served the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Madras for Madras:

• was laid down as Lascelles, an East Indiaman being built for the British East India Company. The Royal Navy purchased her on the stocks and had her completed as a 56-gun fourth rate. She was launched as HMS Madras in 1795. She was broken up at Malta in 1807.
• HMS Madras, of 80 guns, was laid down at Bombay in 1842 but renamed in 1846 before her launching in 1848. She was converted to a screw warship in 1856. She became a hospital ship in Hong Kong in 1867 and was sold for breaking up in 1906.
• HMRIM Madras was launched in 1876 as a wood paddle tugboat for the Royal Indian Marine.
• HMS Madras was a naval trawler built in Bombay in 1919. She may have been laid up in 1942 and renamed or sold in 1943.
• was a that served in the Royal Indian Navy during the Second World War.