HMS Alligator (1821)

History
Name:	HMS Alligator
Ordered:	5 June 1819
Builder:	Cochin
Laid down:	November 1819
Launched:	29 March 1821
Completed:	By 3 September 1822
Reclassified:	Depot ship in June 1841 Troopship in July 1842 Seamen’s hospital in December 1846
Fate:	Sold on 30 October 1865
General characteristics
Class and type:	28-gun Atholl-class sixth rate
Tons burthen:	499 91/94 bm (as designed)
Length:	113 ft 8 in (34.65 m) (gundeck) 94 ft 8.75 in (28.8735 m) (keel)
Beam:	31 ft 6 in (9.60 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	175
Armament:	28 guns: Upper Deck: 20 × 32-pounder carronades Quarterdeck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades Forecastle: 2 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Alligator was a 28-gun Atholl-class sixth rate of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Cochin, British India on 29 March 1821.

The Alligator, under the command of Captain Lambert, operated in the Bay of Islands in New Zealand during the 1830s. In March 1834, the Alligator, was on hand (and fired the 21-gun salute) at the first hoisting of the first national flag of New Zealand, at Waitangi.

She eventually became a depot ship at Trincomalee in June 1841, and was then converted to a troopship in July 1842. Alligator was finally hulked as seamen’s hospital at Hong Kong in December 1846.

She was sold at Hong Kong on 30 October 1865.'

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