HMS Iris (1840)
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HMS Iris was a 26-gun sixth-rate frigate launched on 14 July 1840 from Devonport Dockyard. She spent some time with the West Africa Squadron suppressing the slave trade and later with the East Indies
The old Frigate Iris with her freight of Cable alongside Great Eastern at Sheerness in 1865. The cable passing from the hulk to Great Eastern.
HMS Iris 1845- Regatta Hong Kong
Alongside the "Great Eastern"
Rodney Mundy
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Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Rodney Mundy, was a Royal Navy officer. As a commander, he persuaded the Dutch to surrender Antwerp during the Belgian Revolution and then acted as a mediator during ne
HMS Iris (1840)
…was part of an expedition along the Brune River in Borneo under Rear-Admiral Thomas John Cochrane to destroy forts and batteries there. Her captain G. Rodney Mundy led a returning force of 476 men from six Royal Navy vessels along the Borneo River later that month. She was the flagship of the Australian Squadron…
Sir Rodney Mundy
The second-rate HMS Nile in which Mundy secured Björkö Sound in operations against Russia during the Crimean War
Giuseppe Garibaldi setting off at the start of the Expedition of the Thousand
Monument erected by Mundy to the crew of HMS Royal Albert that died at Halifax, Royal Navy Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)