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.

In 1870 she was a hospital ship moored in the centre of Hong Kong Harbour tending to the British Army.[4] personnel.

She was broken up in 1906.[1]

Cursetjee Rustomjee, the head builder at the H.E.I. company's dock and shipbuilding yard at Bombay from 1844.

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. ^ 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.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Meeanee_(1848)
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