HMS Hyacinth (1829)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Hyacinth.

History
Hyacinth and Volage engage Chinese war junks, 3 November 1839
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Hyacinth
Ordered:	10 June 1823
Builder:	Plymouth Dockyard
Cost:	£17,361 including fitting^{[Note 1]}^[1]
Laid down:	March 1826
Launched:	6 May 1829
Commissioned:	12 January 1830
Fate:	Coal hulk at Portland, November 1860 Breaking completed in November 1871
General characteristics ^[1]
Class & type:	Favorite-class ship sloop
Tons burthen:	429 40/94 bm
Length:	109 ft 6 in (33.4 m) (gundeck) 86 ft 9 ¹⁄₂ in (26.5 m) (keel)
Beam:	30 ft 9 in (9.4 m) oa
Depth of hold:	12 ft 9 in (3.9 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	125
Armament:	16 × 32-pounder carronades 2 × 9-pounder bow chasers Reduced to 14 guns in 1848

External images
A contemporary 1:60 full hull model of Hyacinth at the National Maritime Museum

HMS Hyacinth was an 18-gun Royal Navy ship 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.

Design and construction

Hyacinth was the second of four Favorite-class ship sloops, which were a ship-rigged and lengthened version of the 1796 Cruizer-class brig-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]

Dimensions

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.

Armament

She was armed with sixteen 32-pounder carronades and two 9-pounder bow chaser guns.^[1]

Service

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 before being broken up in 1871.^[1]

Notes

↑ A total cost accounting for inflation of approximately £1,364,500 in today's money.

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Winfield (2004) p.118

Winfield, Rif & Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.

External links

Career of HMS Hyacinth at William Loney website
"HMS Hyacinth at the naval Database website". Retrieved 2011-09-11.

Royal Navy ship-rigged sloops (1816 - 1847)

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List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy

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