HMS Medina (1840)
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag= {{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} |Ship name= Medina |Ship namesake= |Ship ordered=30 March 1838 |Ship builder= Pembroke Dockyard |Ship laid down=June 1839 |Ship launched=18 March 1840 |Ship commissioned=19 October 1848 |Ship completed=April 1840 |Ship reclassified=As survey ship, 7 January 1856 |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship fate=Broken up, March 1864 }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption=(as built) |Ship class={{sclass|Merlin|packet boat}} |Ship tons burthen=889 14/94 bm |Ship length=*{{convert|175|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} (Gun deck)
|Ship beam={{convert|33|ft|2|in|m|abbr=on|1}} |Ship draught= |Ship depth={{convert|16|ft|5|in|m|abbr=on|1}} |Ship power=312 nhp |Ship propulsion=2 × Steam engines |Ship sail plan= |Ship endurance= |Ship complement= |Ship armament=2 × 6-pdr carronades |Ship notes= }} |
HMS Medina was a 2-gun Merlin-class paddle packet boat built for the Royal Navy during the 1830s. The ship remained in ordinary until she was commissioned in 1848. She was converted into a survey ship in 1856 and was broken up in March 1864.
Description
Medina had a length at the gun deck of {{convert|175|ft|m|1}} and {{convert|153|ft|6|in|m|1}} at the keel. She had a beam of {{convert|33|ft|2|in|m|1}}, and a depth of hold of {{convert|16|ft|5|in|m|1}}. The ship's tonnage was 889 {{fraction|14|94}} tons burthen.Winfield, p. 1432 The Medusa class was fitted with a pair of steam engines, rated at 312 nominal horsepower, that drove their paddlewheels. The ships were armed with a pair of 6-pounder carronades.Winfield & Lyon, p. 167
Construction and career
Medina, the twelfth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,Colledge & Warlow, pp. 223–224 was ordered on 30 March 1838, laid down in June 1839 at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 18 March 1840. She was completed in April 1840, but was not commissioned until 19 October 1848 for packet duties in the Mediterranean.
During the Crimean War, she collided with the British barque Agnes Blaikie in the Black Sea off Balaklava, Russia; Agnes Blaikie sank, but her crew were rescued.{{cite web |url=http://www.aberdeenships.com/single.asp?searchFor=blaikie&index=99336 |title=Agnes Blaikie |publisher=Aberdeen City Council |accessdate=22 September 2019}}
Medina was converted into a survey ship on 7 January 1856. On 27 October 1857, she ran aground in the Kilia Channel. She was refloated with the assistance of the Royal Sardinian Navy steamship {{ship|Sardinian steamship|Authion||2}}.{{Cite news |title=Naval and Military |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=28 November 1857 |issue=3600 }} In August 1862, she assisted in the refloating of the British steamship Dalmatian, which had run aground in the Gulf of Smyrna.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=1 September 1862 |issue=4542 }}
Medina was paid off on 10 November 1863 at Malta and scrapped in March 1864.
Notes
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References
- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
- {{cite book |last1=Lyon |first1=David |last2=Winfield |first2=Rif |title=The Sail & Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889 |date=2004 |publisher=Chatham Publishing |location=London |isbn=1-86176-032-9|name-list-style=amp}}
- {{cite book|last1=Phillips|first1=Lawrie; Lieutenant Commander|title=Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy: A Bicentennial History|date=2014|publisher=The History Press|location=Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK|isbn=978-0-7509-5214-9}}
- {{cite book|last1=Winfield|first1=Rif|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793-1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|date=2008|publisher=Seaforth|location=Barnsley, UK|isbn=978-1-84415-700-6}}
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Category:Merlin-class packet boat
Category:Ships built in Pembroke Dock
Category:Maritime incidents in October 1841