Name | Menai (1814) | Explanation | |
Type | Sixth rate | ||
Launched | 5 April 1814 | ||
Hull | Wooden | ||
Propulsion | Sail | ||
Builders measure | 449 tons | ||
Displacement | |||
Guns | 26 | ||
Fate | 1853 | ||
Class | |||
Ships book | |||
Note | 1831 h.s. 1851 target | ||
Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
Date | Event | ||
8 October 1814 - February 1817 | Commanded by Captain Watkin Owen Pell, Ireland, then North America | ||
26 April 1819 - 23 September 1823 | Commanded by Captain Fairfax Moresby, guard ship at St Helena, then Cape of Good Hope, then Mauritius | ||
21 October 1823 - December 1826 | Commanded by Captain Houston Stewart, North America (and in command of Halifax dockyard) | ||
9 January 1827 | Commanded by Captain Michael Seymour, South America | ||
12 September 1827 - 7 October 1829 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Bourchier, South west coast of America | ||
(January 1840) | Receiving ship at Portsmouth |