HASTINGS HMS 1819

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HASTINGS HMS 1819

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Sep 21, 2016 9:00 pm

Maritime Malta - Series IV
This issue consists of a miniature sheet bearing one stamp portraying a lithograph of a drawing by Charles von Brocktorff, circa 1838.
It shows the entry of the dowager Queen Adelaide on board the HMS Hastings into the Valletta Grand Harbour on 30 November 1838.
Queen Adelaide married William IV in 1818. Together they helped to restore the popularity of the Royal Family at a time when Republicanism was taking over in Europe. Queen Adelaide outlived her husband, and remained the Dowager Queen until her death in 1849. She fell ill after her husband's passing away in 1837 and was advised that she needed to enjoy a good climate such as that found in the Mediterranean.
The news that the Queen Dowager Adelaide of England was to visit Malta was published in the Government Gazette (no. 1455) on 24 October 1838. This information stated that the Queen had left England on her way to the Mediterranean on 3 October in the 'Hastings'. On 14 November the Government Gazette informed that the 'Hastings' had arrived in Naples, and finally on 26 November news about the programme of the Queen's arrival was announced.
On the day, the 'Rhadamanthus' was ordered to prepare to tow the 'Hastings' into the harbour. The squadron was under the command of Admiral Sir Robert Stoppford and consisted of a total of eight ships; the Princess Charlotte 104, the Asia 84, the Vanguard 80, the Bellerophon 80, the Minden 74, theBarham 50, the Carysfort 26 and the Wolverene 16.
The entrance of the Queen into harbour was marked by a royal salute fired from Fort Ricasoli and Fort Saint Elmo, and afterwards twenty-one guns were fired from each of the man-of-war.
Battalions of soldiers assembled on the most prominent batteries in order to cheer the Queen as she passed by. People were overjoyed with the arrival of the Queen it being the first time that the flag of a crowned head had entered within Grand Harbour.
The Queen left Malta on 1 April 1939. The Anglican Cathedral of St. Paul in Valletta remains known as a monument to this visit as during her visit the Dowager Queen contributed £10,000 for the construction, furnishing and endowing of the Cathedral. The foundation stone was laid in 1839 to the final designs of William Scamp.
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Built as a wooden sailing vessel by Kyd & Co in Bombay as speculation for the British East India Company.
08 January 1818 launched as the HASTINGS, named after Warren Hastings who was at that time Governor General of India.
Tonnage 1,763 ton (bm.), dim. Length of gundeck 53.9 x 14.8 x 6.4m.
Armament: Lower deck 28 – 32pdrs, upper deck 28 – 18 pdrs, quarter deck 4 – 12 pdrs and 10 – 32pdrs. Carronades, forecastle 2 – 12 pdrs, and 2 – 32 pdrs carronades.
Crew 600.
HASTINGS was built of the highest quality "saul", "sissoo", "Pegue", and "Java" teak wood, following Sir Robert Seppings's principles, which resulted in a vessel both longitudinal and transverse support. Her construction cost Sicca ruppees (Sa.Rs.) 8,71,406 (£108,938), which the merchants of Calcutta and other patriotic individuals subscribed via shares. The full cost of getting her ready for sea was Sa.Rs. 8,71,406 (£116,375).
Captain John Hayes sailed HASTINGS from Calcutta on 28 March 1818. She reached Madras on 13 April, and Port Louis on 2 July. From there she reached St Helena on 15 September, and arrived at The Downs on 3 November
The Admiralty purchased HASTINGS on 22 June 1819. It paid about half of what the vessel had cost the shareholders in Calcutta that had subscribed to her construction. The belief in Calcutta was that the jealousy of the Thames shipbuilders led to the undervaluation of the ship.
In Woolwich she was bought by the Royal Navy for £ 56,320, who registered the vessel on 22 June 1819.
Sailed to Chatham in June 1819 and was laid up, housed over from poop forwards.
February 1833 till April 1834 fitted out for sea service.
07 April 1834 commissioned as HMS HASTINGS under command of Captain Henry Shiffner as flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir William Hall Gage based at Lisbon.
31 January 1838 under command of Captain Francis Erskine Loch she sailed to the Mediterranean.
01 April 1838 sailed from the U.K. to convoy Lord Durham and his entourage to Canada.
07 October 1838 she was fitted out at Portsmouth to convey the Queen Dowager to Malta.
04 June 1839 under command of Captain John Lawrence took part in the Mediterranean operations on the coast of Syria in 1840.
15 September 1840 took part in the capture of Batroun, Lebanon
03 February 1842 paid off at Portsmouth.
10 April 1848 recommissioned under command of Captain James William Morgan and fitted out for sea.
04July 1848 Flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Augustus Collier and sailed for the East Indies.
Sailors and marines from HASTINGS fought Chinese pirates at the Battle of Tonkin River in 1849.
21 January 1850 under command of Captain Francis William Austen as flagship of his uncle Rear-Admiral Charles John Austen in the East Indies in the Second Anglo-Burmese War from September till October 1852.
06 May 1853 paid off at Portsmouth.
1853-1855 Converted to a 60 gun screw block ship at the Portsmouth Dry-dock.
A steam engine installed, manufactured by Maudslay, Sons & Field, 597 ihp.
12 May 1855 work completed.
06 February 1855 commissioned under command of Captain James Crawford Caffin and she sailed for the Baltic. Later based at Queenstown, Ireland.
12 May 1856 paid off at Portsmouth.
Fitted out for coastguard duties, and on 03 April 1857 recommissioned at Liverpool.
01 February 1860 paid off at Liverpool and was again recommissioned on 04 February 1860 as a RNR drill-ship at Liverpool.
08 October 1862 as flagship of Rear-Admiral Lewis Tobias Jones at Queenstown, Ireland.
18 May 1866 paid off and used as a coal hulk in 1870 at Devonport.
September 1885 sold, and broken up in 1886.

Malta 2016 3.50 Euro sgMS?, scott?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hastings_(1819) British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817-1863 by Rif Winfield.
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