HMS Asia (1824)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Asia.

Asia by John Ward of Hull
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Asia
Ordered22 April 1819
BuilderBombay Dockyard
Laid downJanuary 1822
Launched19 January 1824
FateSold, 1908
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeCanopus-class ship of the line
Tons burthen2289 bm
Length193 ft 10 in (59.08 m) (gundeck)
Beam52 ft 4.5 in (15.964 m)
Depth of hold22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament
  • 84 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders, 2 × 68-pounder carronades
  • Upper gundeck: 32 × 24-pounders
  • Quarterdeck: 6 × 24-pounders, 10 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Forecastle: 2 × 24-pounders, 4 × 32-pounder carronades
Nowrojee Jamsetjee Wadia, the Parsi master shipbuilder. Nowrojee sits with plans of the ship, and wears a shawl as traditionally given to builders by the British East India Company on completion of a new ship

HMS Asia was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 January 1824 at Bombay Dockyard.[1]

HMS Asia (centre) fighting against two Ottoman ships at the Battle of Navarino

She was Codrington's flagship at the Battle of Navarino.

She served in the Syria campaign against Mehemet Ali, in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1840–41

In 1858 she was converted to serve as a guardship, and during several years she was flagship of the Admiral-Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard.

In 1908 she was sold out of the navy.[1]

Sternview of HMS Asia by Edward William Cooke (1811-1880)
  1. ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 190.