Drawing of the Starling, 1835
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Starling
NamesakeStarling
Ordered8 December 1828
BuilderPembroke Dockyard
Laid downJune 1829
Launched31 September 1829
ReclassifiedConverted to survey ship, 1834
FateSold, February 1844
General characteristics
Class and typeLark-class cutter
Tons burthen107 73⁄94 tons bm
Length
  • 60 ft 9 in (18.5 m) (gundeck)
  • 49 ft 5 in (15.1 m) (keel)
Beam20 ft 3 in (6.2 m)
Depth of hold9 ft (2.7 m)
Sail planSchooner rig
Complement34
Armament
EIC ship Nemesis, with boats from the Sulphur, Calliope, Larne and Starling, destroying Chinese war junks in Anson's Bay, on 7 January 1841.

HMS Starling was a 4-gun schooner of the British Royal Navy, one of the two ships in an expedition led by Edward Belcher to survey the Pacific coast of the Americas.[1]Henry Kellett was captain of the ship in the First Opium War with China.[2]

References

  1. ^ 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. 136.
  2. ^ Barr, William (2007). Arctic Hell-Ship: The Voyage of HMS Enterprise, 1850–1855. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-88864-472-5.


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