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| Name | Hastings (1819) | Explanation | |
| Type | Third rate | Type | Blockship |
| Acquired (Sail) | June 1819 | Converted to screw | 5 February 1855 |
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 177 feet |
| Propulsion | Sail | Men | 600 |
| Builders measure | 1763 tons | Builders measure (as screw) | 1763 tons |
| Displacement | Displacement (as screw) | 2948 tons | |
| Guns | 74 | Guns (as screw) | 60 |
| Fate | 1886 | Last in commission | 1866 |
| Class | Class (as screw) | Cornwallis | |
| Ships book | |||
| Snippets concerning career prior to conversion | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 22 June 1819 | Purchased upon arrival in Britain (as 3rd rate sailing ship; built by East India Company at Calcutta as a speculation). | ||
| 7 April 1834 | Commanded by Commanded by Captain Henry Shiffner, flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir William Hall Gage, Lisbon | ||
| 31 January 1838 - 4 June 1839 | Commanded by Captain Francis Erskine Loch, Mediterranean | ||
| 4 June 1839 - 3 February 1842 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain John Lawrence, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840) | ||
| 9 April 1848 - 21 June 1850 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Captain James William Morgan, flagship of Rear-Admiral Francis Augustus Collier, East Indies | ||
| 21 January 1850 - 6 May 1853 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Francis William Austen, flagship of Rear-Admiral Charles John Austen, East Indies | ||
| Career as unarmoured wooden screw vessel | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 5 February 1855 | Undocked as screw at Portsmouth Dockyard. | ||
| 6 February 1855 - 28 August 1855 | Commanded by Captain James Crawford Caffin, the Baltic during the Russian War | ||
| 29 August 1855 - 14 May 1856 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Edward Gennys Fanshawe, the Baltic during the Russian War, then Queenstown | ||
| 3 April 1857 - 1 February 1860 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth until paying off at Liverpool) by Captain William Robert Mends, Coast Guard, Liverpool (replaced by Majestic) | ||
| 4 February 1860 | Commanded by Commander Charles Maxwell Luckraft, Royal Naval Reserve drill ship, Liverpool | ||
| 29 January 1862 | Commanded by Commander John William Whyte, Royal Naval Reserve drill ship, Liverpool | ||
| 8 October 1862 - June 1864 | Commanded (from commissioning) by Captain Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell, flagship of Rear-Admiral Lewis Tobias Jones, Queenstown | ||
| 2 July 1864 - 18 May 1866 | Commanded (until paying off) by Captain John Corbett, flagship of Rear-Admiral Lewis Tobias Jones then Rear-Admiral Frederick Warden, Queenstown | ||
| 1870 | Coal hulk, Devonport. | ||
| September 1885 | Sold. | ||
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