HMS Meeanee (1848)

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.

History
UK
Name:	HMS Meeanee
Builder:	Wadia Group
Laid down:	April 1842
Launched:	11 November 1848
Fate:	Broken up, 1906
General characteristics [1]
Class and type:	Vanguard-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	2591 bm
Length:	190 ft (58 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	56 ft 9 in (17.30 m)
Depth of hold:	22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Armament:	78 guns: Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades Upper gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades Quarterdeck: 14 × 32 pdrs Forecastle: 2 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades Poop deck: 4 × 18 pdr carronades

Meeanee was fitted with screw propulsion in 1857, and was broken up in 1906.[1]

Notes

1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p191.

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.