HMS Sulphur (1826)
{{short description|British naval bomb vessel}}
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HMS Sulphur was a 10-gun {{sclass|Hecla|bomb vessel}} of the British Royal Navy, famous as one of the ships in which Edward Belcher explored the Pacific coast of the Americas.
Ship history
File:Edward Belcher, View of Honolulu, Oahu, Sandwich Islands.jpg
Sulphur was launched in 1826, and in 1829 carried Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Irwin, officers, passengers and a detachment of troops from the 63rd Regiment of Foot to the Swan River Colony.{{cite web|url=http://www.wags.org.au/shipping/passulf.htm |title=HM Sloop "Sulpher" |publisher=The Western Australian Genealogical Society Inc. |access-date=27 January 2017 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070625115011/http://www.wags.org.au/shipping/passulf.htm |archive-date=25 June 2007 }} On 23 July 1830 boats and men from {{HMS|Cruizer|1828|6}} and Sulphur pulled {{ship||Medina|1811 ship|2}} off the Parmelia Reef near the Swan River. Medina had grounded while delivering immigrants.{{sfnp|Henderson|1980|p=172}}
Sulphur was converted into a survey ship in 1835 together with {{HMS|Starling|1829|6}} sailed to the Pacific Ocean. Captain Frederick Beechey commanded the expedition under orders to survey the Pacific coast "from Valparaíso to 63°30' N."Blecher, Edward. [https://archive.org/details/narrativeofvoyag01belc Narrative of a Voyage round the World performed in H.M.S. Sulphur, 1836-1842.] Vol. 1. London: Henry Colburn. 1843, p. 3. By the time the ship reached Valparaíso on 9 June 1836 however, Beechey became too ill to continue leading the vessel and departed for the United Kingdom. Henry Kellett replaced Beechey and sailed for Panama City where the expedition waited for a replacement officer. Edward Belcher arrived at the port in March 1837 as the new officer and the expedition continued its operations, sailing for the Federal Republic of Central America.
Sulphur reached the capital of Russian America New Archangel, on 11 September where Governor Ivan Kupreyanov greeted the British with a colonial ball. After departing south, Sulphur reached the site of the first Nootka Convention, Yuquot, on 3 October.Belcher (1843), p. 107. After meeting with local Nuu-chah-nulth dignitaries, the British vessel then went to the mouth of the Columbia River. Bad weather prevented the ship from visited from Fort Vancouver and instead sailed south for Yerba Buena in Alta California.Belcher (1843), p. 114. Sulphur returned to the Columbia River on 28 July 1839.Belcher (1843), p. 288. After visiting Fort Vancouver the expedition went south, reaching San Blas on 24 November,Belcher (1843), p. 338. where it remained until December. Sailing for the Marquesas Islands, Sulphur reached the archipelago in January 1840.
File:Destroying Chinese war junks, by E. Duncan (1843).jpg ship Nemesis, with boats from the Sulphur, Calliope, Larne and Starling, destroying Chinese war junks in Anson's Bay, on 7 January 1841.]]
She participated in the First Opium War between 1840 and 1841.
On 21 July 1841, HMS Sulphur was damaged in the 1841 Hong Kong typhoon resulting in her total dismasting.{{cite book |date=1842 |title=The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1842: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected With Maritime Affairs |chapter=The Typhoon of July 21st, 1841, in the Canton River. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IxdAjfTE7poC |location=London |publisher=Simpkin, Marshall & Company |pages=513–518 |volume=1842}}
The ship was used to survey the harbour of Hong Kong in 1841 and returned to England in 1842. She was used for harbour service from 1843, and was broken up by 20 November 1859, by then the last bomb vessel on the Navy List.
Richard Brinsley Hinds (1811-1846) served as surgeon on Sulphur 1835-42. He was a naturalist, and collected numerous samples of plants and marine animals for study. He edited {{Interlanguage link multi|The Botany of the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur|es}} and The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur (1844).{{cite web |url=http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E002231b.htm |website=Royal College of Surgeons |title=Hinds, Richard Brinsley (1812?{{ndash}}1847) |access-date=2 May 2016}}{{cite book |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/15490#page/1/mode/1up |title=The Botany of the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur |editor-first=Richard Brinsley |editor-last=Hinds |others=Bentham, George (botanical descriptions) |publisher=Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty |year=1844 |access-date=2 May 2016}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IPRAAAAAcAAJ |title=The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur: Volume I, Mammalia, Birds and Fish |first1=J. E. |last1=Gray |author-link1=John Edward Gray |first2=J. |last2=Gould |author-link2=John Gould |first3=J. |last3=Richardson |author-link3=John Richardson (naturalist) |editor-first=Richard Brinsley |editor-last=Hinds |publisher=Smith, Elder & Co. |location=London |year=1844 |access-date=2 May 2016}}{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/zoologyvoyagehm00admigoog |via=archive.org |title=The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur: Volume II, Mollusca |editor-first=Richard Brinsley |editor-last=Hinds |publisher=Smith, Elder & Co. |location=London |year=1844 |access-date=2 May 2016}} The introduction to Zoology, Volume 1 provides a detailed description of the voyage.
Sulphur Channel on the north shore of Hong Kong Island was named after the ship.{{cite book
|year=2002
|last=Bard
|first=Solomon
|chapter=Introduction
|title=Voices from the Past: Hong Kong, 1842-1918
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mXtFBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1
|publisher=Hong Kong University Press
|isbn=9622095747
|oclc=49785200
|page=1}}
See also
Notes
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References
- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
- {{cite book |last1=Henderson |first1=Graeme |title=Unfinished Voyages: 1622-1850 |date=1980 |publisher=University of Western Australia Press|volume=1 |isbn=978-0-85564-176-4 |language=en}}
External links
- {{Commons category-inline|HMS Sulphur (ship, 1826)}}
- [http://www.swaen.com/antique-map-image-WP.php?id=6725 Zoomable image of Belcher's Map of Hong Kong]
- Blecher, Edward. [https://archive.org/details/narrativeofvoyag02belc Narrative of a Voyage round the World performed in H.M.S. Sulphur, 1836-1842. Vol. 2]
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Category:Bomb vessels of the Royal Navy
Category:Exploration ships of the United Kingdom