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HMS Hastings (1819)

Ship of the line of the Royal Navy

Summary

Ship of the line of the Royal Navy

Field	Value
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	The Hastings seventy four. Lying in Ordinary in the Medway RMG PU6119.tiff
image_caption	The Hastings, lying in Ordinary in the Medway, December 1829
section2	{{Infobox ship/career
country	United Kingdom
flag	[[File:Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg	50px]]
builder	Kyd & Co, Kidderpore
name	Hastings
namesake	Warren Hastings
launched	8 January 1818
fate	Sold to British Admiralty 1819
section3	{{Infobox ship/career
country	United Kingdom
flag	[[File:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg	60px	Royal Navy Ensign]]
name	HMS Hastings
acquired	22 June 1819, from British East India Company
fate	Sold, 1886
section4	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
header_caption
class	74-gun third rate ship of the line
tons_burthen	1732, or 1763 (bm)
length	176 ft (gundeck)
beam	48 ft
hold_depth	21 ft
sail_plan	Full-rigged ship
propulsion	Sails
armament	*Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns

Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades
Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades

'*HMS *Hastings''''' was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built in Calcutta for the Honourable East India Company, but the Royal Navy purchased her in 1819. The Navy sold her in 1886.

East India Company

Hastings was built of the highest quality "saul", "sissoo", "Pegue", and "Java" teak wood, following Sir Robert Seppings's principles, which resulted in a vessel both longitudinal and transverse support. Her construction cost sicca rupees (Sa.Rs.) 8,71,406 (£108,938), which the merchants of Calcutta and other patriotic individuals subscribed via shares. The full cost of getting her ready for sea was Sa.Rs. 8,71,406 (£116,375).

Captain John Hayes sailed Hastings from Calcutta on 28 March 1818. She reached Madras on 13 April, and Port Louis on 2 July. From there she reached St Helena on 15 September, and arrived at The Downs on 3 November.

HMS Hastings

The Admiralty purchased Hastings on 22 June 1819. It paid about half of what the vessel had cost the shareholders in Calcutta that had subscribed to her construction. The belief in Calcutta was that the jealousy of the Thames shipbuilders led to the undervaluation of the ship.

Quebec, with the arrival of HMS ''Hastings'' conveying the Earl Of Durnham Governor General of Canada, May 1838, by Capt. Digby B. Morton

In 1838 the ship took the new governor, Lord John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, to Canada. The ship arrived in Quebec on 27 May 1838.

Destruction of [[Chui A-poo]]'s Pirate Fleet, 30 September 1849

Sailors and marines from Hastings fought Chinese pirates at the Battle of Tonkin River in 20–22 October 1849.

In 1855 she was fitted with screw propulsion. In 1857 the ship was deployed to Liverpool on coastal defence duties before being transferred to the Royal Naval Reserve to be used as a training ship.

Fate

Hastings was sold out of the navy in 1886 .

Notes

Citations

References

Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. .
Lee, Ida (1912) Commodore Sir John Hayes: His Voyage and Life (1767-1831) with Some Account of Admiral D'Entrecasteaux's Voyage of 1792-3. (Longmans, Green).
Phipps, John Phipps (of the Master Attendant's Office, Calcutta) (1840) A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time .... (Scott). (Google eBook)

References

National Archives:''Hastings'' (2),[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/73ffe49b-6162-4265-a163-85bbf7f16528] - accessed 23 November 2014.
Lee (1912), pp.239-40.
Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 191.
(2008). "National Museums Liverpool Blog - Immortalised in wood". National Museums Liverpool.
Phipps (1840), pp.xiii-xiv.
Phipps (1840), p.41.
Patrick Richard Carstens. (31 January 2013). "The Republic of Canada Almost". Xlibris Corporation.

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