HMS Hastings (1819)

For other ships of the same name, see Hastings (East Indiaman) and HMS Hastings.

Career (United Kingdom)
The ship's figurehead^{[Note 1]}
Name:	Hastings
Namesake:	Warren Hastings
Builder:	Kyd & Co, Kidderpore^[2]
Launched:	8 January 1818^[3]
Fate:	Sold to British Admiralty 1819
Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Hastings
Acquired:	22 June 1819, from British East India Company
Fate:	Sold, 1886
General characteristics ^[4]
Class and type:	74-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1763 (bm)
Length:	176 ft 10 ¹⁄₂ in (53.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	48 ft 6 in (14.8 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Hastings was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built in Calcutta for the Honourable East India Company, but the Royal Navy purchased her in 1819. The Navy sold her in 1886.

East India Company

Captain John Hayes sailed Hastings from Calcutta on 28 March 1818. She reached Madras on 13 April, and Port Louis on 2 July. From there she reached St Helena on 15 September, and the Downs on 3 November.^[2]

HMS Hastings

The Admiralty purchased Hastings on on 22 June 1819.

Sailors and marines from Hastings fought Chinese pirates at the Battle of Tonkin River in 1849.

In 1855 she was fitted with screw propulsion.^[4] In 1857 the ship was deployed to Liverpool on coastal defence duties before being transferred to the Royal Naval Reserve to be used as a training ship.^[1]

Fate

Hastings was sold out of the navy in 1886.^[4]

Notes, citations and references

Notes

↑ The Ship's figurehead is now on display at the Merseyside Maritime Museum.^[1]

Citations

↑ 1.0 1.1 Guy, Stephen (2008). "National Museums Liverpool Blog - Immortalised in wood". National Museums Liverpool. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
↑ 2.0 2.1 National Archives:Hastings (2), - accessed 23 November 2014.
↑ Lee (1912), pp.239-40.
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p191.

References

Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
Lee, Ida (1912) Commodore Sir John Hayes: His Voyage and Life (1767-1831) with Some Account of Admiral D'Entrecasteaux's Voyage of 1792-3. (Longmans, Green).

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