HMS Rainbow (1823)

HMS Rainbow was a frigate of the Royal Navy, built in 1823. It was a sixth rate sloop with 26 guns.[1][2]

It was commanded by Henry John Rous from 1825 to 1829. From 1825 to 1827 it served under the Commander-in-Chief, East Indies. In February 1827 it arrived in Sydney in the colony of New South Wales where it was used to conduct a number of explorations of the (now) Queensland and New South Wales coasts.[2]

The Rainbow Reach of the Macleay River in New South Wales was named after the ship and the locality Rainbow Reach in the Kempsey Shire was named after the reach.[2]

  1. ^ "HMS Rainbow (1823); Warship; Sixth rate sloop; 28 guns". Royal Museums Greenwich. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  2. ^ a b c Daley, Louise T., "Rous, Henry John (1795–1877)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 12 November 2019