HMS Modeste (1837)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Modeste.
History
Name: HMS Modeste
Ordered: 6 February 1837
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Cost: £15,042
Laid down: May 1837
Launched: 31 September 1837
Commissioned: 10 March 1838
Fate: Sold March 1866
General characteristics
Class & type: Modeste-class corvette
Tons burthen: 562 3094 tons bm
Length:
  • 120 ft (36.6 m) (overall)
  • 98 ft 7 in (30.0 m) (keel)
Beam: 33 ft 1 in (10.1 m)
Depth of hold: 14 ft 2 in (4.32 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Complement: 150
Armament:
  • 16 × 32-pounder carronades
  • 2 × 32-pounder guns

HMS Modeste was a British Royal Navy corvette commissioned in 1838 and sold in 1866.

Operations

The Modeste was a part of the British forces engaged in the First Opium War against the Qing Empire.[1]

References

  1. Bingham, J. Elliot. Narrative of the Expedition to China. Vol. 1. London: Henry Colburn. 1843.

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