HMS Wellington (1816) explained

HMS Wellington was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 September 1816 at Deptford Dockyard.

The ship had originally been named HMS Hero, but was renamed Wellington on 4 December 1816. She became a training ship in 1862, and Wellington was eventually sold out of the Navy in 1908.

In 1826, HMS Wellington introduced mosquitos to the Hawaiian Islands. These mosquitoes were introduced to a stream on Maui when sailors seeking fresh water rinsed out their water barrels in the stream. Prior to this, no mosquitoes lived in Hawaii.^[1]

Fate

Wellington was converted to a training ship and named Akbar on 10 May 1862.^[2] In January 1877, she was driven ashore at Rock Ferry, Cheshire. She was refloated on 4 January.^[3] Akbar served in as a training ship until 1908. She arrived at Thos. W. Ward, Morecambe on 8 April 1908 for breaking up.^[2]

References

• Book: Colledge . J. J. . Ben . Warlow . Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy . London . Chatham Press . 2006 . 978-1-93514-907-1 . J. J. Colledge.
• Book: Lavery, Brian . 2003 . The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850 . Conway Maritime Press . 0-85177-252-8.
• Book: Patterson, Gordon . The Mosquito Crusades: A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day . 6 April 2009 . Rutgers University Press . 9780813547008 . 5 April 2011.

Notes and References

1. Patterson 2009, p.162
2. Colledge & Warlow 2006, p.162
3. Latest Shipping Intelligence . 6 January 1877 . 28832 . 7 . F .