1839 Coringa cyclone

On 25 November 1839, the port city of Coringa in present-day Andhra Pradesh on the southeastern coast of British India was battered by a tropical cyclone that destroyed the harbour.

Coringa is a harbour city situated on the Bay of Bengal, near the mouth of the Godavari River.

[1] Large ships sank in the rough waters off the Bay of Bengal and rice fields were destroyed by floods and wave surges.

[1] Many ships passing through or near the port city started to observe a rainy pattern on 24 November 1839, a day before the cyclone made landfall.

[2] On 25 November 1839, the cyclone struck Coringa, generating a large 40-foot storm surge that completely destroyed the area.

[1] An official of the British East India Company, Henry Piddington, coined the term cyclone in his reports for the first time while observing the swath of destruction made by the 1789 and 1839 storms.