HMS Samarang (1822)

{{Short description|1822–1883 Royal Navy ship}}

{{other ships|HMS Samarang}}

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{{Infobox ship begin}} {{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Immersion of H.M.S. Samarang in the Sarawak RMG PU6128.jpg |Ship caption=Immersion of HMS Samarang in the Sarawak }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} |Ship name= HMS Samarang |Ship builder=Cochin |Ship original cost= |Ship ordered=5 June 1819 |Ship laid down= March 1821 |Ship launched=1 January 1822 |Ship completed=By 7 June 1824 |Ship commissioned= |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified=Guard ship in May 1847 |Ship refit= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport= |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship fate=Sold in November 1883 |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= 28-gun {{sclass|Atholl|corvette|0}} sixth rate |Ship tons burthen=499 {{frac|91|94}} bm (as designed) |Ship length=*{{convert|113|ft|8|in|m|abbr=on}} (gundeck) {{convert|94|ft|8+3/4|in|m|abbr=on}} (keel) |Ship beam= {{convert|31|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} |Ship height= |Ship depth in hold= {{convert|8|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}} |Ship sail plan=Full-rigged ship |Ship speed= |Ship range= |Ship complement=175 |Ship armament=*Upper Deck: 20 × 32-pounder carronades QD: 6 × 18-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns |Ship notes= }}

HMS Samarang was a 28-gun, teak, {{sclass|Atholl|corvette|0}} sixth rate of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Cochin in 1822 by the East India Company.

The first application of cathodic protection was to HMS Samarang in 1824. Sacrificial anodes made from iron attached to the copper sheathing of the hull below the waterline dramatically reduced the corrosion rate of the copper. However, a side effect of the cathodic protection was to increase marine growth. Copper, when corroding, releases copper ions which have an anti-fouling effect. Since excess marine growth affected the performance of the ship, the Royal Navy decided that it was better to allow the copper to corrode and have the benefit of reduced marine growth, so cathodic protection was not used further.

{{stack|File:H.M.S. Samarang 26 Guns In a gale crossing the Bay of Biscay on her passage home on the 23rd December 1846 RMG PY0820.jpg}}

Samarang served in various stations around the world until seeing action in the First Opium War, and was then employed, under Edward Belcher, in surveying the coasts of the East Indies and southern China from 1843 to 1846.[https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6953637M/ Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during 1843-1846 (1848)] On 17 July 1843, she struck a rock in the Sarawak river at Kuching and capsized, but her crew survived;{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval Intelligence |date=14 October 1843 |page=3 |issue=18427 |column=E }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=16 October 1843 |page=7 |issue=18428 |column=A-B }}{{Cite news |title=Loss of the Samarang Surveying Ship |newspaper=The Examiner |location=London |date=14 October 1843 |issue=264 }} she had been refloated by 13 August and was returned to service.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=11 November 1843 |issue=19315 }} English zoologist Arthur Adams, who was assistant surgeon on the ship for this voyage later edited Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang (1850), an account of the survey. She later became a guardship at Gibraltar before being sold for breaking in 1883.[http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=2023 "William Loney"]{{Cite web |url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/S/04072.html |title=Naval database |access-date=17 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614222934/http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/S/04072.html |archive-date=14 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}[http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/66666.html National Maritime Museum]