HMS Meeanee

Launch of the Meanee, 80 guns, at Bombay
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Meeanee
BuilderWadia Group Cursetjee Rustomjee
Laid downApril 1842
Launched11 November 1848
FateBroken up, 1906
General characteristics [1]
Class & typeVanguard-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 planFull-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 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]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c 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.

References

  • Lavery, Brian (1983) 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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