Royal Navy. 3rd rate 74 guns. 1730 tons. Built by Perry at Blackall in 1802. L175ft Compl 590. Stamp shows her in action 20 Oct 1827 Navarino Harbour. Design copied from an engraving in National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Greece SG428. SSS Ency.
Asia HMS
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john sefton
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Re: Asia HMS
HMS ASIA a wooden three masted ship of 2279 tons. Length o/a 196'1", hull 161'11". Breadth 51'5". Depth 22'6".
She was built of teak at Bombay Dockyard and was based on the lines of the French 'CANOPUS' (taken in 1798) but was modified with the stranger round stern designed by Sir Robert Seppings.
Her keel was laid in January 1822 and she was launched on 19th January 1824 as a 'Formidable' class 84 gun two-decked second rate ship of the line for the Royal Navy. Armament· was Gun Deck 32 x 32pdrs. Upper Deck 32 x 24pdrs. Quarter deck 4 x 24pdrs plus 14 x 32pdr carronades. Forecastle 2 x 24pdrs plus 2 x 32pdr carronades. She carried a crew of 700 men.
On 20'" October1827 (Capt. Edward 'Curzonj.) she was the flagship of ViceAdmiral Sir Edward Codrington, the Commander in Chief of the combined British-French-Russian fleet at the Battle of Navarino against a Turkish-Egyptian fleet under the leadership of Ibrahim PASHA. This was the last Naval fleet action fought under sail.
In 1831-2 (Capt. Peter Richards) as a result of the Civil War in Portugal she flew the flag of Rear-Admiral William Parker in command of a squadron which lay in or cruised off the Tagus to protect British interests in the area. In 1840 (Capt. William Fisher) she was part of the fleet engaged in activities off the coast of Syria. By 1858 she was in use as a harbour guardship at Portsmouth. She was finally sold out of the Service on 7th April1908 to the shipbreakers Mervielle of Dunkirk.
Article by Richard Emmerson, Log BookSeptember 2003
She was built of teak at Bombay Dockyard and was based on the lines of the French 'CANOPUS' (taken in 1798) but was modified with the stranger round stern designed by Sir Robert Seppings.
Her keel was laid in January 1822 and she was launched on 19th January 1824 as a 'Formidable' class 84 gun two-decked second rate ship of the line for the Royal Navy. Armament· was Gun Deck 32 x 32pdrs. Upper Deck 32 x 24pdrs. Quarter deck 4 x 24pdrs plus 14 x 32pdr carronades. Forecastle 2 x 24pdrs plus 2 x 32pdr carronades. She carried a crew of 700 men.
On 20'" October1827 (Capt. Edward 'Curzonj.) she was the flagship of ViceAdmiral Sir Edward Codrington, the Commander in Chief of the combined British-French-Russian fleet at the Battle of Navarino against a Turkish-Egyptian fleet under the leadership of Ibrahim PASHA. This was the last Naval fleet action fought under sail.
In 1831-2 (Capt. Peter Richards) as a result of the Civil War in Portugal she flew the flag of Rear-Admiral William Parker in command of a squadron which lay in or cruised off the Tagus to protect British interests in the area. In 1840 (Capt. William Fisher) she was part of the fleet engaged in activities off the coast of Syria. By 1858 she was in use as a harbour guardship at Portsmouth. She was finally sold out of the Service on 7th April1908 to the shipbreakers Mervielle of Dunkirk.
Article by Richard Emmerson, Log BookSeptember 2003
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aukepalmhof
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