HMS Asia (1824)
Overview | |
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Type | Canopus class |
Shipyard | |
Order | April 22, 1819 |
Keel laying | January 1822 |
Launch | January 19, 1824 |
1. Period of service | |
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:
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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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