Английская Википедия:HMS Comus (1828)

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HMS Comus was an 18-gun sloop, the name ship of her class, built for the Royal Navy during the 1820s.

Description

Comus had a length at the gundeck of Шаблон:Convert and Шаблон:Convert at the keel. She had a beam of Шаблон:Convert, and a depth of hold of Шаблон:Convert. The ship's tonnage was 462 Шаблон:Fraction tons burthen.[1] The Comet class was armed with a pair of 9-pounder cannon in the bow and sixteen 32-pounder carronades. The ships had a crew of 125 officers and ratings.[2]

Construction and career

Comus, the second ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,[3] was ordered with the name of Comet on 15 May 1821, laid down in October 1826 at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 14 August 1828.[2] She was completed on 28 February 1829 at Plymouth Dockyard and commissioned on November 1828. The ship was renamed Comus on 31 October 1832.[1]

On 17 November 1833, Comus ran aground on the North Bank in Liverpool Bay during a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, England, to Dublin, Ireland.[4]

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Comus in action at the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado in 1846

On 25 September 1847, Comus was driven ashore and sank near Montevideo, Uruguay.[5] Subsequently refloated, she was repaired and returned to service.[6]

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Comus at the Spithead Fleet Review on 15 July 1853

Comus was broken up on 10 May 1862.

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  1. 1,0 1,1 Winfield, p. 903
  2. 2,0 2,1 Winfield & Lyon, p. 117
  3. Colledge, p. 311
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