HMS Meeanee (1848)

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Launch of the Meanee, 80 guns, at Bombay - ILN 1849.jpg
Launch of the Meanee, 80 guns, at Bombay
History
Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
NameHMS Meeanee
Builder Wadia Group Cursetjee Rustomjee
Laid downApril 1842
Launched11 November 1848
FateBroken up, 1906
General characteristics [1]
Class & type Vanguard-class ship of the line
Tons burthen2591 bm
Length190 ft (58 m) (gundeck)
Beam56 ft 9 in (17.30 m)
Depth of hold22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
PropulsionSails
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. The Meanee had originally been intended to be named the Madras, and retained the figurehead of a native of Madras, though it no longer appropriate. The head builder at the H.E.I. company dock and shipbuilding yard was Cursetjee Rustomjee. [2] She sailed from Bombay for England in August 1849 with Persian artefacts for the British Museum. [3]

Meeanee was fitted with screw propulsion in 1857.

On the 5 March 1867 she was lent to the War Department as hospital ship in Hong Kong. She was escorted by HMS Adventure from Java Head starting in Agust 1868 [4] and finally arrived in Hong Kong on the 28 October 1868 [5] . In 1870 she was a hospital ship moored in the centre of Hong Kong Harbour tending to the British Army. [6] personnel.

She was broken up in 1906. [1]

Cursetjee Rustomjee, the head builder at the H.E.I. company's dock and shipbuilding yard at Bombay from 1844. Cursetjee Rustomjee ILN 1849-0106-0012 (no caption).jpg
Cursetjee Rustomjee, the head builder at the H.E.I. company's dock and shipbuilding yard at Bombay from 1844.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 191.
  2. ↑ "The "Meanee" Line-Of-Battle Ship". Vol. 14, no. 352. The Illustrated London News. 6 January 1849. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "Ashurnasirpal II artefacts". British Museum. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  4. ↑ "China Mail 1868-08-26".
  5. ↑ "HMS Meeanee (1847)".
  6. ↑ Ray, S. K. (November 1912). "The Meanee Hospital ship, Hong Kong". BMJ Military Health. 19 (5): 658. Retrieved 31 August 2021.

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