HMS Maeander (1840)
HMS Meander was launched at Chatham on 5 May 1840. She was a Seringapatam-class frigate, armed originally with 16 32-pounder carronades and 28 18-pounder carronades. The length of her keel was 133 feet and her beam 42 feet; her burthen was 1221 tons.[1] As a frigate her complement was 222 seamen, 39 boys and 60 marines.
From 1 November 1847 to 1851 her captain was Henry Keppel. She served in the East Indies, cooperating with James Brooke in the suppression of piracy, and then in Australia and the Pacific. On 14 July 1852 Captain Charles Talbot took command of Maeander. On 30 May 1854 Captain Thomas Baillie took command. She served in the White Sea in 1855 during the Russian War.
On 2 December 1856, James Robert Drummond was appointed captain of Maeander, for coast guard service. In 1859 she was commanded by Commander Malcolm MacGregor.
In 1860 she was converted into a stores' ship and served in the West Coast of Africa Squadron at Ascension as a replacement for Tortoise. From 1 November 1859 to July 1861 she was under the command of Captain William Farquharson Burnett. On 23 February 1861 Captain Frederick Lamport Barnard took command. From 24 December 1864 to January 1866 her commander was Captain Joseph Grant Bickford.
By 1864 she was reduced to 10 guns.
Fate
In July 1870 Maeander was wrecked in a gale. Her remains are at 14 metres in position 07 54 45S, 14 24 24W bows, on to the shore. She lies on her port side and has opened up. Timber, copper sheathing, knees supporting her gun deck and the tiller have been located.
References
- ↑ Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475., p. 211
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