HMS President (1829)
HMS President in South West India Dock, London, ca. 1880
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Ordered | 25 May 1818 |
Builder | Portsmouth Dockyard |
Laid down | June 1824 |
Launched | 20 April 1829 |
Fate | Sold for breaking up, 7 July 1903. |
General characteristics | |
Tons burthen | 1,53457⁄94 bm |
Length | 173 ft 5+1⁄2 in (52.870 m) |
Beam | 44 ft 10+3⁄4 in (13.684 m) |
Depth of hold | 14 ft 2 in (4.32 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 450 |
Armament |
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HMS President was a large frigate in the British Royal Navy (RN). She was built to replace the previous HMS President, redesignated from the heavy frigate USS President built in 1800 as the last of the original six frigates of the United States Navy under the Naval Act of 1794. The first President had been the active flagship of the U.S. Navy until captured while trying to escape the Royal Navy blockade around New York in 1815 at the end of the War of 1812, and then served in the RN until broken up in 1818. The new British President was built using her American predecessor's exact lines for reference, as a reminder to the United States of the capture of their flagship – a fact driven home by President being assigned as the flagship of the North America and West Indies Station in the western Atlantic Ocean under the command of Admiral Sir George Cockburn (1772–1853), who had directed raids throughout the Chesapeake Bay in 1813–1814 that culminated in the 1814 burning of official buildings in the American capital, Washington, D.C.
The second President was laid down at
Service
After her first two years' commission on the North America and West Indies Station, she was refitted between February and May 1834. The years 1835–1838 were spent on the South American station. Thereafter she was at Portsmouth for several years before being fitted out as a flagship in 1845 and sent to the Cape of Good Hope for the next two-year commission.
Operations in support of the suppression of the slave trade led to President sending her boats in 1847 to attack an Arab stockade at Anjoxa, Mozambique Channel in East Africa. The fighting, however, was not major.[1]
Returning from South Africa in 1847 to
Between 11 May and 7 September 1854, when news was received of the declaration of war at the start of the
Fate
After serving in the Pacific, President was laid up in reserve at Chatham for three years before being converted at Woolwich to an
Citations
References
- Clowes, W. Laird, et al. (1897-1903) The royal navy: a history from the earliest times to the present. (Boston: Little, Brown and Co.; London: S. Low, Marston and Co.).
- Lyon, David (1993) The Sailing Navy List, (London: Conway Maritime Press). ISBN 0-85177-617-5.
- Lyon, David and Rif Winfield (2004) The Sail and Steam Navy List (London:Chatham Publishing). ISBN 1-86176-032-9.
External links
- Media related to HMS President (ship, 1829) at Wikimedia Commons