HMS Malabar was a 74-gun third-rate Repulse-class ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by the Parsi shipbuilder Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia and launched on 29 December 1818 on the Upper Duncan Dock at Bombay Dockyard.

The builder was Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia and the design was by G. Seaton, architect in Bombay Presidency.

[2] Sir W. Montagu was appointed captain on 25 July 1834, fitting for the Mediterranean, where, and off Lisbon, he continued until ordered home at the close of 1837 for the purpose of being paid off.

[3] On 19 October 1838, Malabar ran aground off Prince Edward Island in British North America and was damaged.

[4] On 26–27 August 1843, Malabar, under the command of Sir George Sartorius,[5] assisted in fighting a fire that destroyed the United States Navy sidewheel frigate USS Missouri at Gibraltar and took aboard about 200 of Missouri's survivors.