HMS Asia (1824)

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John Ward of Hull - HMS Asia.jpg
Overview
Type Canopus class
Shipyard

Bombay Dockyard

Order April 22, 1819
Keel laying January 1822
Launch January 19, 1824
1. Period of service flag
Whereabouts sold 1908
Technical specifications
displacement

2289 bm

length

193 ft 10 in (59.08 m) (gundeck)

width

52 ft 4.5 in (15,964 m)

Armament

84 cannons:

  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Upper gundeck: 32 × 24 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 6 × 24 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 24 pdrs, 4 × 32 pdr carronades
Stern view of the ship of the line HMS Asia by Edward William Cooke (1811-1880)

HMS Asia was stocked with 84 guns Battleship second rank of the British Royal Navy , which in the 19 January 1824 Bombay Dockyard in Bombay from the stack running. She was the flagship of Admiral Edward Codrington in the Battle of Navarino on October 20, 1827.

From 1858 she was only used as a guard ship and in 1908 sold for scrapping.

literature

  • Brian Lavery: The Ship of the Line. Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet, 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press, London 2003, ISBN 0-85177-252-8 .

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