HMS Meeanee
 Launch of the Meanee, 80 guns, at Bombay | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Meeanee |
| Builder | Wadia Group Cursetjee Rustomjee |
| Laid down | April 1842 |
| Launched | 11 November 1848 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1906 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class & 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 |
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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 August 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]
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Notes
- 1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 191.
- ↑ "The "Meanee" Line-Of-Battle Ship". Vol. 14, no. 352. The Illustrated London News. 6 January 1849. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ↑ "Ashurnasirpal II artefacts". British Museum. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ↑ "China Mail 1868-08-26".
- ↑ "HMS Meeanee (1847)".
- ↑ Ray, S. K. (November 1912). "The Meanee Hospital ship, Hong Kong". BMJ Military Health. 19 (5): 658. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben & Bush, Steve (2020). Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (5th revised and updated ed.). Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5267-9327-0.
- Lavery, Brian (1984). The Ship of the Line. Vol. 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650-1850. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
- Winfield, Rif (2014). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817–1863: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-169-4.