Maritime History

HMS Rodney (1833)

HMS Rodney was the lead ship of her class of 90-gun, second-rate ships of the line built for the Royal Navy (RN) during the 1830s. Completed in 1835 as a sailing ship, she spent most of her early career assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet where she played a minor role in the Oriental Crisis of 1840. The ship participated in the Crimean War of 1854–1856 with the Russian Empire, including the bombardment of Sevastopol in 1854. The ship spent extensive time in reserve, or "in ordinary" as the RN termed it, during her career. Rodney was converted to screw propulsion in 1859–1860. She served as a flagship on the China Station where she was used to intimidate Chinese officials after the Yangzhou riot in 1868 and helped to suppress piracy the following year. The ship was the last wooden ship of the line to serve on active duty when she returned home in 1870. Rodney was broken up for scrap in 1882.

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• ▸Conakry
• ▸Fukuyama Castle (Sōja)
• ▸Bob Brown

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