HMS Nabob explained

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Nabob, an earlier spelling for Nawab, a deputy provincial governor in the Mughal Empire. not the current usage which refers to an Anglo-Indian term for a conspicuously wealthy man who made his fortune in the Orient, especially in the Indian subcontinent.

• HMS Nabob was the East Indiaman, launched in 1766, which the Navy bought in 1777 for use as a storeship, converted to a hospital ship in 1780, and then sold in 1783.^[1]
• was the ex-USS Edisto, an escort carrier launched in 1943 and provided to the United Kingdom on Lend-Lease. She was torpedoed in 1944, not repaired, and sold to the Netherlands for breaking up in 1947, resold in 1951, and finally broken up in Taiwan in 1977.

References

Bibliography

• • Book: Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793 - 1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. 2008. 978-1-86176-246-7.

Notes and References

1. Winfield (2007), p.359.