HMS Hyacinth (1829)

Hyacinth and Volage engage Chinese war junks, 3 November 1839
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Hyacinth
Ordered10 June 1823
BuilderPlymouth Dockyard
Cost£17,361 including fitting[Note 1][1]
Laid downMarch 1826
Launched6 May 1829
Commissioned12 January 1830
Fate
  • Coal hulk at Portland, November 1860
  • Breaking completed in November 1871
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeFavorite-class ship sloop
Tons burthen429 40/94 bm
Length
  • 109 ft 6 in (33.4 m) (gundeck)
  • 86 ft 9+12 in (26.5 m) (keel)
Beam30 ft 9 in (9.4 m) oa
Depth of hold12 ft 9 in (3.9 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement125
Armament
External image
image icon A contemporary 1:60 full hull model of Hyacinth at the National Maritime Museum

HMS Hyacinth was an 18-gun Royal Navy ship sloop. She was launched in 1829 and surveyed the north-eastern coast of Australia under Francis Price Blackwood during the mid-1830s. She took part in the First Opium War, destroying, with HMS Volage, 29 Chinese junks. She became a coal hulk at Portland in 1860 and was broken up in 1871.


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  1. ^ a b Winfield (2004) p.118