Английская Википедия:HMS Cornwallis (1813)

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HMS Cornwallis was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 May 1813 at Bombay.[1] She was built of teak. The capture of Java by Шаблон:USS delayed the completion of Cornwallis as Java had been bringing her copper sheathing from England.[2]

Cornwallis arrived at Deal, Kent on 31 May 1814, having escorted several East Indiamen (including Шаблон:Ship, Шаблон:Ship, and Шаблон:Ship), and two whalers (including Шаблон:Ship).[3]

On 27 April 1815, Cornwallis engaged the American sloop Шаблон:USS, which had mistaken Cornwallis for a merchant ship. Heavily outgunned, Hornet was forced to retreat. The crew threw boats, guns and other equipment overboard in order to escape.[4]

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Cornwallis and the British squadron in Nanking

After China's defeat in the First Opium War, representatives from the British and Qing Empires negotiated a peace treaty aboard Cornwallis in Nanjing. On 29 August 1842, British representative Sir Henry Pottinger and Qing representatives, Qiying, Yilibu and Niujian, signed the Treaty of Nanking aboard her.

Cornwallis was fitted with screw propulsion and reduced to 60 guns in 1855,[1] and took part in the Crimean War, where she was commanded by George Wellesley, future admiral and First Sea Lord, and the nephew of the Duke of Wellington.

She was converted to a jetty at Sheerness in 1865. In 1916 she was renamed Шаблон:HMS and used as a base ship. She was finally broken up in 1957 at Sheerness, some 144 years after her launching.[1]

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  1. 1,0 1,1 1,2 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок Lavery, SoLv1 p189 не указан текст
  2. Parkinson (1954), p. 421.
  3. "Ship News" The Times (London, England), June 2, 1814; pg. 2; Issue 9236.
  4. James (1837), Vol.6, p.387.