HMS Madagascar (1822) explained
HMS Madagascar was a 46-gun fifth-rate, built at Bombay and launched on 15 November 1822.
Madagascar delivered Bavarian Prince
Otto, who had been selected as the
King of Greece, to his new capital
Nafplion in 1833. In 1843,
Madagascar was assigned to suppress the slave trade, which was illegal in Britain. Operating off the west African coast, it successfully detained the Portuguese slave
schooner Feliz in 1837, the Brazilian slave ships
Ermelinda Segunda (detained 1842),
Independencia (1843),
Prudentia (1843) and
Loteria (1843), and the Spanish slave
brigantine Roberto (1842), along with two other vessels of which the nationalities were not recorded. In 1848,
Madagascar became a storeship, first in
Devonport and then at
Rio de Janeiro after 1853. She was sold in 1863.
[1] Commanding officers
- 1830 – Sir Robert Spencer, second son of the Earl of Spencer died aboard ship in Malta.
- 1830–1834 – captain Edmund Lyons
- 1838–1839 – Provo Wallis, KCB, East Indies
- 1840 – Out of Commission
- 1841–1844 – captain John Foote, west coast of Africa
- 1847 – Robert Mann
- 1853 – John William Finch, storeship, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 1855 – John Ptolemy Thurburn, storeship, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 1856 – John Mortimer Leycester, storeship, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 1859–1863 – Vice Admiral Richard Dunning White,[2] CB, storeship, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil[3]
Notes and References
- Web site: HMS [Ship]]. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20051017000718/http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/M/02814.html . 17 October 2005 .
- For more on Richard Dunning White see: White, Richard Dunning.
- Web site: HMS Madagascar.
