HMS Malacca (1853)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Malacca and Japanese ship Tsukuba.

HM ships Grappler, Shearwater and Malacca (far right) on the Pacific Station, British Columbia
HM ships Grappler, Shearwater and Malacca (far right) at Esquimalt, Vancouver's Island
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Malacca
Ordered9 November 1847
BuilderMoulmein, Burma
Laid down29 May 1849
Launched9 April 1853
Completed17 August 1854
Commissioned19 June 1854
Decommissioned9 September 1869
FateSold in June 1869, then resold to Japan 1870
Japan
NameTsukuba
Acquired1870
Commissioned1870
Decommissioned1906
ReclassifiedStatic training vessel c. 1900
Honours and
awards		Baltic 1854, Black Sea 1854 - 55
FateBroken up in 1906
General characteristics in British service
Class and type
Tons burthen1,034 28⁄94 bm
Length
  • 192 ft 0 in (58.52 m) gundeck
  • 168 ft 2.5 in (51.270 m) keel reported for tonnage
Beam34 ft 4 in (10.46 m) maximum, 34 ft 0 in (10.36 m) reported for tonnage
Draught15 ft 10 in (4.83 m) forward and 18 ft 10 in (5.74 m) aft
Depth of hold22 ft 8 in (6.91 m)
Installed power
  • 200 nhp/692 ihp (516 kW)
  • After 1862: 707 ihp (527 kW)
Propulsion
  • As built
  • John Penn & Son 2-cylinder (283/8in diameter, 2½ft stroke) inclined single expansion, trunk, high pressure engine
  • Single screw
  • After 1862
  • Humphrys & Tennant 2-cylinder (42¼in diameter, 26in stroke) horizontal single expansion engine
Speed
  • (Under steam)
  • As built: 9.2 kn (10.6 mph)
  • After 1862: 9.5 kn (10.9 mph)
Complement180
Armament
  • 1 × 10-inch 85 cwt shell gun
  • 18 × 32-pounder 32 cwt MLSB guns or
  • 1 × 8 in 65 cwt shell gun
  • 16 × 32-pdr 32 cwt MLSB guns
General characteristics in Japanese service
Armament
  • 6 × 4.5-inch BL guns
  • 2 × 30-pounder guns
  • 2 × 24-pounder guns
  • 4 × 6-inch QF guns (after 1892)

HMS Malacca was a 17-gun wooden sloop of the Royal Navy. She was ordered on 9 November 1847 from Moulmein, Burma to be built of teak. As a Surveyor's Department design, Malacca was based on the Conflict designed sloop which was approved on 9 December 1848.[1] After launching in April 1853 she was commissioned the following month to be sailed to England for the fitting of her engine. She entered British Naval service in 1854 and served three commissions including action in the Russian War 1854 - 55 before being sold in 1869. Her resale to Japan, she served in the Japanese Navy as a training ship until broken in 1906.

Malacca was the second name vessel since it was used for a 36-gun fifth rate launched at Prince of Wales I, Penang in 1809 and broken in March 1816.[2]

  1. ^ Winfield, Chapter 12
  2. ^ Colledge