HMS Hyacinth (1829) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Hyacinth was a British sixth rate sloop; she fought alongside HMS Volage and destroyed 29 Chinese ships in the First Opium War. Launched at Plymouth in 1829, the Hyacinth measured 109 feet along the gun deck by 30 feet in the beam, and it had a tonnage of 435 burden. It was flush-decked with a small forecastle and quarterdeck, and was armed with sixteen 32-pounder carronades and two 6-pounder guns. During its 42-year career, it was stationed in the West and East Indies from 1829-41, took part in the First Opium War from 1841-42, and from 1843-46 it was stationed off the west coast of Africa in the suppression of the slave trade. After being reduced to 14 guns in 1847, it later became a coal hulk at Portsmouth before being broken up in 1871.