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These ships were constructed of wood in traditional shipbuilding fashion, although iron braces and trusses were used for increased longitudinal strength. They were armed with a traditional arrangement of broadside, smoothbore muzzle-loading guns, and in common with contemporary Royal Navy practice
313:(with the exception of a pair of small long guns on the focsle as chasers). Twenty 32-pounder carronades were mounted on the upper deck and a further six 18-pounder carronades were placed on the quarterdeck. The sail plan was an entirely conventional 370:'s letters and specimens back to the United Kingdom. She paid off in 1835, recommissioning the next year for the East Indies. This commission saw her travel as far as Australia and New Zealand, and during this time she saw action in the 346:. She returned to England in 1835 and was recommissioned for the South America station in 1836. In 1840 she was placed in reserve and was destroyed by fire on 27 September 1840. 378:. In 1842 she carried home the United Kingdom's share of the $ 6,000,000 indemnity paid by the Chinese at the end of the war. From 1843 to 1847 she served on the 366:
was commissioned in 1832 for the North Sea, Lisbon, and South America. She recommissioned in 1835 for the Pacific, and during this time she carried some of
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in County Cork). She was lent to the Mercantile Marine Association of Liverpool in February 1859 to act as a training ship for boys, and gave her name to
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was commissioned in 1831 for the East Indies. She travelled as far as New South Wales and saw action in China in 1834 against the
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Cancelled on 14 September 1832, when the frame was nearly complete. Broken up later the same year
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and transferred to Aberdeen Royal Naval Reserve on 28 August 1861. Broken up at Sheerness in 1871
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took her place as the training ship in 1861, the two ships swapped names. Under her new name of
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she became the Aberdeen Royal Naval Reserve ship on 28 August 1861. She was broken up in 1871.
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Lent as training ship in February 1859 to the Mercantile Marine Association, renamed
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She was transferred to Pembroke Dockyard and laid down again in January 1832
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The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889
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accidentally burnt in 1840, leaving the sole survivor of the class,
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All three ships of the class were ordered on 9 June 1825.
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List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy
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Accidentally burnt at Plymouth on 27 September 1840
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Index

HMS Conway
Chatham Dockyard
Pembroke Dockyard
Deptford Dockyard
Royal Navy
Corvette
bm
Full-rigged ship
carronades
Royal Navy
Sir Robert Seppings
HMS Tyne
sixth rates
captain
carronades
ship rig
HMS Imogene (1831)
Bogue forts
HMS Conway (1832)
Charles Darwin
First Opium War
capture of Chusan
Cape of Good Hope Station
Cobh
HMS Conway
Imogene
Pembroke Dockyard
Conway
Chatham Dockyard
Deptford Dockyard

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