HMS Hyacinth (1829)
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HMS Hyacinth was an 18-gun Royal Navy ship sloop. She was launched in 1829 and surveyed the north-eastern coast of Australia under Francis Price Blackwood during the mid-1830s. She took part in the Fi
Hyacinth and Volage engage Chinese war junks, 3 November 1839
HMS Volage (1825)
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HMS Volage was a sixth-rate sailing frigate launched in 1825 for the Royal Navy. At one point geologist Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt served aboard her.
HMS Hyacinth (1829)
…surveyed the north-eastern coast of Australia under Francis Price Blackwood during the mid-1830s. She took part in the First Opium War, destroying, with HMS Volage, 29 Chinese junks. She became a coal hulk at Portland in 1860 and was broken up in 1871. Hyacinth was the second of four Favorite-class ship sloops…
HMS Volage depicted on a stamp commemorating the Aden Expedition