HMS Jasper (1857)
HMS Jasper was a British Algerine-class gunboat launched in 1857.
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| Name: | HMS Jasper |
| Builder: | R & H Green, Blackwall Yard |
| Launched: | 16 March 1857 |
| Fate: | Sold, 2 August 1862 |
| Lay-Osborn Flotilla | |
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| Namesake: | Amoy |
| Acquired: | 2 August 1862 |
| Decommissioned: | 1863 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Algerine-class gunboat |
| Displacement: | 370 long tons (376 t) |
| Tons burthen: | 301 bm |
| Length: | 125 ft 0 in (38.1 m) |
| Beam: | 23 ft 0 in (7.01 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft 2 in (2.8 m) |
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| Propulsion: | Single shaft |
| Speed: | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
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History
HMS Jasper was purchased by Horatio Nelson Lay, Inspector General of the Qing Dynasty Chinese Maritime Customs Service, on 2 August 1862, as part of an effort to bolster the Qing Dynasty naval force in response to the ongoing Taiping Rebellion.[1][2] Thereafter she was renamed Amoy (Chinese: 廈門; pinyin: Xiàmén; Wade–Giles: Hsia Men; lit. 'Amoy'), and became part of the Lay-Osborn Flotilla commanded by Sherard Osborn.[3] She was put under the command of Lieut. Arthur Salwey.[4] Upon her arrival in China, the Qing government ordered the ship to be renamed as Kuang Wan (Chinese: 廣萬; pinyin: Guǎngwàn).[1][5]
Disagreements between the Qing government and Lay over the command and composition of the Lay-Osborn Flotilla led to its disbandment in 1863, and Amoy was taken to Bombay by Osborn, presumably for sale. Her fate is unknown, possibly sold to Egypt, to Captain Charles Stuart Forbes of Keangsoo, or to Satsuma Domain with Keangsoo.[1][2][5]
Citations
- Chen 2013, p. 13.
- Wright 2000, pp. 16-17.
- Chen 2013, p. 7.
- Clowes 1903.
- Chen 2002, p. 142.
References
- Chen, Zhenshou (2002). Túshuōzhōngguóhǎijūnshǐ: Gǔdài-1955 图说中国海军史: 古代-1955 [A Pictorial History of the Chinese Navy: Antiquity-1955]. Fujian Education Publishing House. ISBN 978-7-5334-3536-3. Archived from the original on 2019-01-12. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
- Chen, Yue (2013). Zhōngguójūnjiàntúzhì 1855-1911 中國軍艦圖誌1855-1911 [Album of Chinese Warships 1855-1911] (in Chinese). Hong Kong: The Commercial Press (Hong Kong). ISBN 9789620703614.
- Clowes, Sir William Laird (1903). The Royal Navy a History from earliest times to the death of Queen Victoria: Volume 7. London, England: Sampson Low Marston and Company. pp. 138–150.
- Wright, Richard (2000). The Chinese Steam Navy, 1862-1945. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 9781861761446.