Maritime History

HMS Belleisle (1819)

HMS Belleisle was a third-rate Repulse-class ship of the line built for the Royal Navy during the 1810s. Upon completion in 1819, the ship was placed in ordinary. She was not commissioned until 1839 and was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet. Belleisle was converted into a troopship in 1841 and participated in the First Opium War in China. The ship converted into a hospital ship in 1854 and served in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War of 1854–1855. She participated in the Second Opium War of 1856–1860 and was placed in reserve upon her return home. Bellisle was used as a hospital ship for sick sailors in 1866–1868 in Greenwich, before she was broken up in 1872.

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• ▸Erquy
• ▸Concretion
• ▸German auxiliary cruiser Komet

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