HMS Coromandel (1855)
 HMS Coromandel in 1860
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Tartar |
| Namesake | Tatars |
| Operator | Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company |
| Builder | Thomas & Robert White, Cowes, Isle of Wight |
| Cost | £17,567 |
| Launched | 7 July 1853 |
| Fate | Sold to the Royal Navy 28 August 1855 |
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Coromandel |
| Namesake | Coromandel Coast |
| Acquired | 8 January 1855 |
| Fate | Sold 17 August 1866 in Hong Kong |
| General characteristics [1][2] | |
| Tonnage | 171nrt |
| Tons burthen | 303 (bm) |
| Length | 172.8 ft (52.7 m) |
| Beam | 22.6 ft (6.9 m) |
| Depth | 11.6 ft (3.5 m) |
| Propulsion | Sail & paddles driven by a trunk geared steam engine. Her engine was made by Maudsley, Sons & Field, and generated 150nhp and 550, or 557ihp |
| Speed | 12 knots[1] |
HMS Coromandel was a wooden paddle dispatch vessel of the Royal Navy. She was built for the P&O company as the passenger and cargo steamer Tartar. The Navy purchased her in 1855 and she participated in several battles in Chinese waters, including having been sunk and recovered. The Navy sold her in 1866 and she went through several changes in ownership before she was broken up in 1876.
P&O company
Tartar had a shallow-draught wooden hull, strengthened by diagonal planking and reinforced with iron scantlings.[1]
On 8 September 1853 she sailed from Southampton for the Far East where she was to provide a feeder service for the P&O Line on the China coast. Cadiz towed Tartar for the first four days, but then Tartar completed the rest of voyage to Singapore mostly under sail.[1]
On 4 June 1854 Tartar sailed to the Paracel Islands to assist Douro,[1] which had run aground there on 26 May. Salvage efforts were abandoned on 10 June.[3][4]
Lieutenant Sholto Douglas commissioned Coromandel in October 1856 for operations on the
On 1 June 1857 she was at the Battle of Fatshan Creek, during which she ran aground.[6] There she served as the flagship for Rear-Admiral Michael Seymour. From 2 July she served as a tender to HMS Chesapeake. On 22 September she was under the command of Master William H. Vine.[2]
Coromandel was at all three of the battles of the Pei-ho or Taku Forts: First (1858), Second (1859), and Third Battle of the Taku Forts (1860).[2] In the second, in 1859, she was sunk but was later raised, repaired, and returned to service.[1] On 23 August 1859 she was the flagship of Vice-Admiral James Hope.[2]
On 25 October 1861 Coromandel was under the command of Lieutenant Duncan George Davidson and serving as tender to
Later career
The Navy sold Coromandel in 1866 to R. Byrne & Company, Hong Kong. In 1867 she was sold to Kishu, Japan, where her new owners renamed her Naruto.[1]
Glover & Co., of Hong Kong, purchased her in 1868, and converted her to screw propulsion. The company went bankrupt and she was sold to Wright & Co., of Nagasaki, who sold her to Iwatani Shozo, who sold her to Hunt & Co., managers in Japan for the Netherlands Trading Society. She then underwent extensive repairs.[1]
Fate
In 1876 Hunt & Co. sold the vessel to shipbreakers. She had been laid up at Yokohama for some time during which her hull had suffered from white ants.[1]
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g h i P&O Heritage Ship Fact Sheet: Tartar.
- ^ a b c d e f Winfield (2014).
- ^ "Ship News". The Times. No. 21816. London. 10 August 1854. col E, p. 12.
- ^ "China". The Times. No. 21819. London. 14 August 1854. col F, p. 6.
- ^ Kennedy (1900), p. 39.
- ^ "Battle of Fatshan". The Hull Packet and East Riding Times. No. 3787. Hull. 7 August 1857.
References
- Kennedy, William (1900). Hurrah for the Life of a Sailor! Fifty Years in the Royal Navy. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons.
- Winfield, Rif (2014). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817–1863: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-169-4.
External links
Media related to Coromandel (ship, 1853) at Wikimedia Commons
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