HMS Modeste (1837)
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| Name: | HMS Modeste |
| Ordered: | 6 February 1837 |
| Builder: | Woolwich Dockyard |
| Cost: | £15,042 |
| Laid down: | May 1837 |
| Launched: | 31 September 1837 |
| Commissioned: | 10 March 1838 |
| Fate: | Sold March 1866 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Modeste-class corvette |
| Tons burthen: | 562 30⁄94 tons bm |
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| Beam: | 33 ft 1 in (10.1 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 14 ft 2 in (4.32 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Complement: | 150 |
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HMS Modeste was a British Royal Navy corvette commissioned in 1838 and sold in 1866.
The Modeste was a part of the British forces engaged in the First Opium War against the Qing Empire.
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