HMS Meeanee
| File:Launch of the Meanee, 80 guns, at Bombay - ILN 1849.jpg Launch of the Meanee, 80 guns, at Bombay | |
| History | |
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| Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Meeanee |
| Builder | Wadia Group Cursetjee Rustomjee |
| Laid down | April 1842 |
| Launched | 11 November 1848 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1906 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class & type | Vanguard-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen | 2591 bm |
| Length | 190 ft (58 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam | 56 ft 9 in (17.30 m) |
| Depth of hold | 22 ft 6 in (6.86 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
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HMS Meeanee was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 11 November 1842 at Bombay Dockyard.[1] She was named after the Battle of Meeanee. The Meanee had originally been intended to be named the Madras, and retained the figurehead of a native of Madras, though it no longer appropriate. The head builder at the H.E.I. company dock and shipbuilding yard was Cursetjee Rustomjee.[2] She sailed from Bombay for England in August 1849 with Persian artefacts for the British Museum.[3]
Meeanee was fitted with screw propulsion in 1857.
On the 5 March 1867 she was lent to the War Department as hospital ship in Hong Kong. She was escorted by HMS Adventure from Java Head starting in August 1868 [4] and finally arrived in Hong Kong on the 28 October 1868.[5] In 1870 she was a hospital ship moored in the centre of Hong Kong Harbour tending to the British Army.[6] personnel.
She was broken up in 1906.[1]
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Notes
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References
[edit | edit source]- Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
