Launch of the Meanee, 80 guns, at Bombay
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Meeanee
BuilderWadia Group Cursetjee Rustomjee
Laid downApril 1842
Launched11 November 1848
FateBroken up, 1906
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeVanguard-class ship of the line
Tons burthen2591 bm
Length190 ft (58 m) (gundeck)
Beam56 ft 9 in (17.30 m)
Depth of hold22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament
  • 78 guns:
  • Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 32 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Poop deck: 4 × 18 pdr carronades

HMS Meeanee was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 11 November 1842 at Bombay Dockyard.[1] She was named after the Battle of Meeanee. The Meanee had originally been intended to be named the Madras, and retained the figurehead of a native of Madras, though it no longer appropriate. The head builder at the H.E.I. company dock and shipbuilding yard was Cursetjee Rustomjee.[2] She sailed from Bombay for England in August 1849 with Persian artefacts for the British Museum.[3]

Meeanee was fitted with screw propulsion in 1857.

In 1870 she was a hospital ship moored in the centre of Hong Kong Harbour tending to the British Army.[4] personnel.

She was broken up in 1906.[1]

Cursetjee Rustomjee, the head builder at the H.E.I. company dock and shipbuilding yard at Bombay from 1844.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p191.
  2. ↑ "The "Meanee" Line-Of-Battle Ship". No. Volume: 14, Issue: 352. The Illustrated London News. 6 January 1849. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "Ashurnasirpal II artefacts". British Museum. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  4. ↑ Ray, S. K. (November 1912). "The Meanee Hospital ship, Hong Kong". BMJ Military Health. 19 (5): 658. Retrieved 31 August 2021.

References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.


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