HMS Meeanee (1848)

Career (UK)
Name: HMS Meeanee
Builder: Bombay Dockyard
Laid down: April 1842
Launched: 11 November 1848
Fate: Broken up, 1906
General characteristics [1]
Class and 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
Armament:78 guns:
  • Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 32 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Poop deck: 4 × 18 pdr carronades

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.

Meeanee was fitted with screw propulsion in 1857, and was broken up in 1906.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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.