HMS Asia (1824)

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Asia by John Ward of Hull
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Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
NameHMS Asia
Ordered22 April 1819
Builder Bombay Dockyard
Laid downJanuary 1822
Launched19 January 1824
FateSold, 1908
General characteristics [1]
Class & type Canopus-class ship of the line
Tons burthen2289 bm
Length193 ft 10 in (59.08 m) (gundeck)
Beam52 ft 4.5 in (15.964 m)
Depth of hold22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Armament
  • 84 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders, 2 × 68-pounder carronades
  • Upper gundeck: 32 × 24-pounders
  • Quarterdeck: 6 × 24-pounders, 10 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 24-pounders, 4 × 32-pounder carronades
Figurehead of the HMS Asia from the collection of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, 2025. HMS Asia Figurehead, 2025.tif
Figurehead of the HMS Asia from the collection of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, 2025.

HMS Asia was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 January 1824 at Bombay Dockyard. [1]

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She was Codrington's flagship at the Battle of Navarino.

She served in the Syria campaign against Mehemet Ali, in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1840–41

In 1858 she was converted to serve as a guardship, and during several years she was flagship of the Admiral-Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard.

In 1908 she was sold out of the navy. [1]

Sternview of HMS Asia by Edward William Cooke (1811-1880) Asia - view of stern PY0836.jpg
Sternview of HMS Asia by Edward William Cooke (1811-1880)

Figurehead

The figurehead was removed from the ship before it was sold in 1909 as it appears in the 1911 Admiralty Catalogue amongst other figureheads, where it was described as a 'Figurehead of a Rajah (bust)'. [2]

The figurehead can be seen on display at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth. [3]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 190.
  2. ↑ Pulvertaft, David (2009). The Warship Figureheads of Portsmouth (1st Colour ed.). UK: The History Press. p. 50. ISBN   978-0752450766.
  3. ↑ "Discover the Royal Navy like never before | National Museum of the Royal Navy". www.nmrn.org.uk. Retrieved 26 June 2025.

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