HMS Pearl (1855)
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| Builder: | Woolwich Dockyard |
| Launched: | 13 September 1855 |
| Fate: | Sold to Castle August 1884 for break up |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2187 tons |
| Length: | 200 ft (61 m) |
| Beam: | 40.5 ft (12.3 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1390 hpi 400 hp |
| Armament: | 20 x 8 in guns, 1 x 68 pdr |
HMS Pearl was a 21-gun screw corvette of the Royal Navy launched in 1855, displacing 2187 tons.
She was captained by John Borlase from 23 August 1859 to 18 June 1864 when the ship was paid off in Portsmouth. HMS Pearl sailed around the East Indies and China and played a part in the Taiping Rebellion and the bombardment of Kagoshima during the Anglo-Satsuma War.
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- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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