Ship of the line of the Royal Navy
For other ships with the same name, see
HMS Asia .
History United Kingdom Name HMS Asia Ordered 22 April 1819 Builder Bombay Dockyard Laid down January 1822 Launched 19 January 1824 Fate Sold, 1908 General characteristics [ 1] Class and type Canopus -classship of the line Tons burthen 2289 bm Length 193 ft 10 in (59.08 m) (gundeck) Beam 52 ft 4.5 in (15.964 m) Depth of hold 22 ft 6 in (6.86 m) Propulsion Sails 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
Nowrojee Jamsetjee Wadia, the Parsi master shipbuilder. Nowrojee sits with plans of the ship, and wears a shawl as traditionally given to builders by the British East India Company on completion of a new ship 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]
HMS Asia (centre) fighting against two Ottoman ships at the Battle of Navarino 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)
Notes
^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 190.
References
Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8 .
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