HMS Hazard (1837)
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Hazard |
| Ordered: | 10 June 1823 |
| Builder: | Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Cost: | £10,500 |
| Laid down: | May 1829 |
| Launched: | 21 April 1837 |
| Completed: | 5 July 1837 |
| Fate: | Broken up by 12 February 1866 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 18-gun Favorite-class sloop |
| Tons burthen: | 431 bm |
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| Beam: | 30 ft 9 in (9.37 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 125 |
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HMS Hazard was an 18-gun Favorite-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was one of four Favorite-class ship sloops, which were a ship-rigged and lengthened version of the 1796 Cruizer-class brig-sloop. All four ships of the class were ordered on 10 June 1823. She was launched in 1837 from Portsmouth Dockyard.
In July 1837 Hazard sailed for the coast of Senegal to protect British shipping and to patrol the coast of West Africa. In October 1837 she was in the Mediterranean. She took part in the Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–1841), also known as the Second Syrian War, when the British Mediterranean Fleet under Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, supported the Ottoman Empire and took action to compel the Egyptians to withdraw from Beirut. During the Oriental Crisis of 1840 Hazard was involved in the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre on 3 November 1840.
In September 1841, she returned to Portsmouth then sailed to Hong Kong to serve in the East Indies and China Station. During the period 1841–42 she served with Sir William Parker's ships in the First Anglo-Chinese War (1839–42), known popularly as the First Opium War.
Hazard, under Acting-Commander Robertson, operated in the Bay of Islands in New Zealand during the Flagstaff War in 1845. Hazard was in the Bay of Islands on 11 March 1845 when a force of about 600 Māori armed with muskets, double-barrelled guns and tomahawks attacked Kororareka (as Russell was then known). Royal Marines and sailors from Hazard took part in the fighting ashore aiding a detachment of the 96th Regt. during the Battle of Kororāreka. The Hazard lost 6 men killed and 8 wounded. Lieutenant George Philpotts ordered the bombardment of Kororāreka. The next morning, all surviving inhabitants of Kororareka sailed for Auckland in the Hazard, the 21-gun United States corvette USS St. Louis, the Government brigantine Victoria and the schooner Dolphin.
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