HMS Hyacinth (1829)

Hyacinth and Volage engage Chinese war junks, 3 November 1839
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Hyacinth
Ordered	10 June 1823
Builder	Plymouth Dockyard
Cost	£17,361 including fitting[Note 1][1]
Laid down	March 1826
Launched	6 May 1829
Commissioned	12 January 1830
Fate	Coal hulk at Portland, November 1860 Breaking completed in November 1871
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Favorite-class ship sloop
Tons burthen	429 40/94 bm
Length	109 ft 6 in (33.4 m) (gundeck) 86 ft 9+1⁄2 in (26.5 m) (keel)
Beam	30 ft 9 in (9.4 m) oa
Depth of hold	12 ft 9 in (3.9 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	125
Armament	16 × 32-pounder carronades 2 × 9-pounder bow chasers Reduced to 14 guns in 1848

External image
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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