HMS Cornwallis (1813)

HMS Cornwallis (1813)

HMS "Cornwallis" was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 May 1813 at Bombay.

On 27 April 1815, she was engaged by the American sloop USS "Hornet", which had mistaken the "Cornwallis" for a merchant ship. Heavily outgunned, the "Hornet" was forced to throw boats, guns and other equipment overboard in order to escape.

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

"Cornwallis" was fitted with screw propulsion and reduced to 60 guns in 1855, 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, and then used as a base ship from 1916, when she was renamed HMS "Wildfire". After an extended career she was broken up in 1957 at Sheerness.

References


*Lavery, Brian (2003) "The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850." Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
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