HMS Miranda (1851)

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HMS Miranda was a Royal Navy sloop which saw action as part of the Allied Squadron in the Crimea War. Two of its crew were awarded the Victoria Cross for their bravery.

In the autumn 1854, a squadron of three British warships led by HMS Miranda left the Baltic for the White Sea, where they shelled and destroyed Kola. An attempt to storm Arkhangelsk proved abortive, as was the siege of Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka. While the Anglo-French naval squadron successfully shelled the town, a landing of 800 sailors and marines was repulsed.

On 3 June 1855 at Taganrog, Sea of Azov, Crimea, Boatswain Henry Cooper and Lieutenant Cecil William Buckley of HMS Miranda landed destroying equipment and setting fire to government buildings. This despite the town being under bombardment and garrisoned by 3,000 Russian troops.

In 1862 the ship was converted to screw propulsion and redesignated a corvette. It was scrapped in 1869.


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