HMS Belleisle (1819) explained

HMS Belleisle was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 April 1819 at Pembroke Dockyard.

Belleisle was converted to serve as a troopship in 1841 and sailed for China in Dec. 1841 for the First Opium War. She stayed in China until the Treaty of Nanking was signed in 1842.[1] On 10 June 1856, she ran aground on the Englishman's Shoal, in the Bosphorus. She was refloated on 13 June.[2]

Belleisle was subsequently used as a hospital ship at Chatham. In June 1866, she was lent by the Admiralty to the Seamen's Hospital Society for use as a hospital ship in London for seamen suffering from cholera. Whilst being towed up the River Thames by the tug Medusa, she ran aground, but was refloated on the next tide.[3] Belleisle was broken up in 1872.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Carradice, Phil. The Ships of Pembroke Dockyard. 15 August 2013. Amberley Publishing Limited. 38. 9781445613109 . Google Books.
  2. News: Devon . The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser . Truro . 1 August 1856 . 2771 . 5 .
  3. Naval and Military Intelligence . 7 June 1866 . 12 . 25518 . E-F .