HMS Meeanee (1848)

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. 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. She sailed from Bombay for England in August 1849 with Persian artefacts for the British Museum.

Launch of the Meanee, 80 guns, at Bombay
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Meeanee
BuilderWadia Group Cursetjee Rustomjee
Laid downApril 1842
Launched11 November 1848
FateBroken up, 1906
General characteristics
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

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. personnel.

She was broken up in 1906.

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