HMS Winchester (1822)
HMS Winchester
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Winchester |
| Ordered: | 23 May 1816 |
| Builder: | Woolwich Dockyard |
| Laid down: | November 1818 |
| Launched: | 21 June 1822 |
| Commissioned: | 16 September 1822 |
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| Fate: | Sold for breaking 8 April 1921 |
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| Class and type: | 60-gun Southampton-class frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 1,468 11/94 bm (as designed) |
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| Beam: | 44 ft 3.25 in (13 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 14 ft 6 in (4 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 450 |
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HMS Winchester was a 60-gun Southampton-class sailing frigate of the Royal Navy. She was laid down in 1816 at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched on 21 June 1822. Although designed for 60 guns, she and the rest of the class carried 52 guns. From 1831 to 1861 she served in North America and South East Asia. In 1861 she became the training ship Conway at Liverpool, and from 1876 she was the training ship Mount Edgcumbe. She was sold in 1921.
Although ordered in 1816 and laid down in 1818, Winchester was not launched until 21 June 1822, and commissioned on 16 September later that year. She served until 1839 as the flagship on the North America and West Indies Station, where she was commanded by Captain Charles Austen, brother of the novelist Jane Austen. From 1842 she served as the flagship on the Cape of Good Hope Station, under the command of Captain Charles Eden.
In 1852 Captiain Granville Gower Loch commissioned the Winchester to relieve Hastings as flagship in China and the East Indies. During 1852 and 1853 she took part in military operations on coast of Burma during the Second Burmese War. Shortly after arriving at Rangoon Rear-Admiral Charles Austen died; Commodore George Lambert was off the coast, and the command on the Irrawaddy River devolved on Loch. The subsequent action resolved itself into keeping the river clear and driving the Burmese out of such positions as they occupied on its banks.
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