HMS Modeste (1837)

HMS Modeste was a British Royal Navy corvette commissioned in 1838 and sold in 1866.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Modeste.

Modeste
History
Name: HMS Modeste
Ordered: 6 February 1837
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Cost: £15,042
Laid down: May 1837
Launched: 31 September 1837
Commissioned: 10 March 1838
Fate: Sold March 1866
General characteristics
Class and type: Modeste-class corvette
Tons burthen: 562 ​30⁄94 tons bm
Length:
  • 120 ft (36.6 m) (overall)
  • 98 ft 7 in (30.0 m) (keel)
Beam: 33 ft 1 in (10.1 m)
Depth of hold: 14 ft 2 in (4.32 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Complement: 150
Armament:
  • 16 × 32-pounder carronades
  • 2 × 32-pounder guns

Operations
Mouth of the Peiho, from the pinnace of HMS Modeste, 11 August 1840.

The Modeste was a part of the British forces engaged in the First Opium War against the Qing Empire.[1]

References
  • Lyon, David and Rif Winfield. The Sail and Steam Navy List: All of the Ships of the Royal Navy, 1815-1889. London: Chatham Publishing. 2004, p. 120.
  1. Bingham, J. Elliot. Narrative of the Expedition to China. Vol. 1. London: Henry Colburn. 1843.
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