HMS Meteor (1823)

Meteor
History
United Kingdom
Name	Meteor
Ordered	18 May 1819
Builder	Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down	May 1820
Launched	25 June 1823
Completed	17 June 1824
Renamed	As Beacon, June 1832
Reclassified	As survey ship, July 1832
Fate	Sold, 17 August 1846
General characteristics
Class and type	Hecla-class bomb vessel
Tons burthen	378 bm
Length	106 ft (32.3 m) (gundeck) 87 ft 1 in (26.5 m) (keel)
Beam	28 ft 11 in (8.8 m)
Draught	10 ft 9 in (3.3 m)
Depth	13 ft 10 in (4.2 m)
Complement	67
Armament	2 × 6-pdr cannon 8–10 × 24-pdr carronades 1 × 10 in (254 mm) mortar 1 × 13 in (330 mm) mortar

HMS Meteor was a Hecla-class bomb vessel built for the Royal Navy during the 1820s. In July 1832 she was renamed Beacon and reclassified as a survey ship, and was sold in 1846.