HMS North Star (1824)
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| Name: | North Star |
| Ordered: | 30 April 1818 |
| Builder: | Woolwich Dockyard |
| Laid down: | April 1820 |
| Launched: | 7 February 1824 |
| Completed: | 26 May 1826 |
| Fate: | Broken up at Chatham Dockyard in 1860 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 28-gun Atholl class corvette sixth-rate post ship |
| Tons burthen: | 501 bm |
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| Beam: | 31 ft 6 in (9.60 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 175 |
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HMS North Star was a 28-gun Atholl class corvette sixth-rate post ship built to an 1817 design by the Surveyors of the Navy. She was launched in 1824.
North Star Bay, a bay in Greenland, was named in honour of this ship.
From 1826 to 1828 under Captain Arabin, North Star was stationed in the West Africa Squadron, whose task was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa. In late 1828 she sailed to England, via the West Indies. From 1829 to 1832 she was stationed in Portsmouth; then from 1832-1833 she became part of the North America and West Indies Station before being paid off. In 1834 she was commissioned for service on the Pacific Station then known as the South American Station. She was in the Pacific off the coast of South and Central America until 1836, when she returned to Portsmouth.
In September 1841 Captain Sir J. E. Home was appointed to North Star. She was then commissioned for service in the East Indies and China Station and in November of that year she conveyed money for the commissariat in China. 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.
At the end of the First Anglo-Chinese War North Star was sent to Calcutta, then Sydney, Australia, and when at Sydney, the Flagstaff War began in New Zealand.
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