HMS Lee (1857)
HMS Lee (1857)


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NameLee (1857)Explanation
TypeGunboat   
Launched28 February 1857
HullWooden
PropulsionScrew
Builders measure301 tons
Displacement 
Guns3
Fate1859
ClassAlgerine
Ships book
Note1859.06.25 sunk in action with Peiho forts, China
Snippets concerning this vessels career
DateEvent
(20 November 1858)
- 28 June 1859
Commanded by Lieutenant William Henry Jones, China (until sunk during unsuccessful attack on the Peiho forts during the 2nd Anglo-Chinese War)
Extracts from the Times newspaper
DateExtract
Tu 25 July 1871The following vessels of war are now on their passage home for the purpose of being put out of commission and their crew paid off: - The Forte, 24, 2,364 tons, 400-horse power, Capt. H. Fairfax, flagship of Rear-Admiral J.H. Cockburn, commanding the East India squadron, and the Nymph, 4, 1,084 tons, 300-horse power, Commander R. Adams, from the East Indies; the Charybdis, 17, 1,506 tons, 400-horse power, Capt. A.M'L. Lyons, from the Pacific; the Virago, 6, 1,053 tons, 200-horse power, paddlewheel steamer, Commander H.S. Sandys, from Australia; the Jaseur, 5, 427 tons, 80-horse power, Commander C.F. Hotham, and the Lee, 5, 431 tons, 80-horse power, Commander C. S. Fitton, from the Mediterranean; and the Vestal, 4, 1,081 tons, 300-horse power, Commander W.R. Kennedy, and the Myrmidon, 4, 695 tons, 200-horse power, Commander H.L. Holder, for North America and the West Indies. The Dryad, 4, 1,086 tons, 300-horse power, Commander G. Parsons, is to be paid off and re-commissioned at Bombay, and the Rapid, 3, 672 tons, 150-horse power, Commander the Hon. F.L. Wood, at Malta.


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