For other ships with the same name, see HMS Hyacinth.
HMS Hyacinth was an 18-gun Royal Navyship sloop. She was launched in 1829 and surveyed the north-eastern coast of Australia under Francis Price Blackwood during the mid-1830s. She took part in the First Opium War, destroying, with HMS Volage, 29 Chinese junks. She became a coal hulk at Portland in 1860 and was broken up in 1871.
Hyacinth and Volage engage Chinese war junks, 3 November 1839
Hyacinth was the second of four Favorite-class ship sloops, which were a ship-rigged and lengthened version of the 1796 Cruizer-classbrig-sloop. All four ships of the class were ordered on 10 June 1823 and Hyacinth was laid down at Plymouth Dockyard in March 1826. She was launched on 6 May 1829 and commissioned for the West Indies Station on 12 January 1830.[1]
Dimensionsedit
Hyacinth measured 109 ft 6 in (33.4 m) along the gun deck by 30 ft 9 in (9.4 m) in the beam, and had a tonnage of 429 40/94 bm.[1] She was flush-decked with a small forecastle and quarterdeck.
During her 42-year career, she was stationed in the West and East Indies from 1829–41, took part in the First Opium War from 1841–42, and from 1843-46 was stationed off the west coast of Africa in the suppression of the slave trade. After being reduced to 14 guns in 1848,[1] she later became a coal hulk at Portsmouth.[1] On 2 October 1871, Hyacinth drove ashore and sank in the Clarence Creek.[2] She was subsequently broken up.[1]
Notesedit
^A total cost accounting for inflation of approximately £1,625,300 in today's money.
^"Naval and Military News". Hampshire Telegraph. No. 4083. Portsmouth. 4 October 1871.
Referencesedit
Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.
External linksedit
Media related to HMS Hyacinth (1829) at Wikimedia Commons
Career of HMS Hyacinth at William Loney website
"HMS Hyacinth at the naval Database website".
January 01, 1970
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