HMS Meeanee (1848)
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HMS Meeanee was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 11 November 1842 at Bombay Dockyard.[1] She was named after the Battle of Meeanee. The Meanee had originally been intended to be named the Madras, and retained the figurehead of a native of Madras, though it no longer appropriate. The head builder at the H.E.I. company dock and shipbuilding yard was Cursetjee Rustomjee.[2] She sailed from Bombay for England in August 1849 with Persian artefacts for the British Museum.[3]
Meeanee was fitted with screw propulsion in 1857.
In 1870 she was a hospital ship moored in the centre of Hong Kong Harbour tending to the British Army.[4] personnel.
She was broken up in 1906.[1]
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- Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. Template:ISBN.