HMS Meeanee

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]

Launch of the Meanee, 80 guns, at Bombay
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Meeanee
Builder	Wadia Group Cursetjee Rustomjee
Laid down	April 1842
Launched	11 November 1848
Fate	Broken up, 1906
General characteristics [1]
Class & 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.

On the 5 March 1867 she was lent to the War Department as hospital ship in Hong Kong. She was escorted by HMS Adventure from Java Head starting in August 1868 ^[4] and finally arrived in Hong Kong on the 28 October 1868.^[5] In 1870 she was a hospital ship moored in the centre of Hong Kong Harbour tending to the British Army.^[6] personnel.

She was broken up in 1906.^[1]

Cursetjee Rustomjee, the head builder at the H.E.I. company's dock and shipbuilding yard at Bombay from 1844.