HMS Madagascar (1822)
.JPG) The Figurehead of HMS Madagascar | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name: | HMS Madagascar |
| Ordered: | 5 April 1817 |
| Builder: | East India Company, Bombay |
| Laid down: | October 1821 |
| Launched: | 15 November 1822 |
| Completed: | January 1829 at Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Motto: | – |
| Fate: | Sold 5 May 1863 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Seringapatam-class frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 1,162 bm |
| Length: | 159 ft (48 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam: | 40 ft 5 in (12.32 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
| Speed: | – |
| Range: | – |
| Complement: | 315 |
| Armament: | 46 guns |
HMS Madagascar was a 46-gun fifth-rate Seringapatam-class frigate, built at Bombay and launched on 15 November 1822.
The Bavarian Prince Otto who had been selected as the King of Greece was delivered by the Madagascar to his new capital Nafplion in 1833. In 1843, the Madagascar was assigned to suppress the slave trade, which was illegal in Britain. Operating of the west African coast, it successfully detained the Portuguese slave schooner Feliz (detained 1837), The Brazilian slave ships Ermelinda Segunda (detained 1842), Independencia (1843), Prudentia (1843) and Loteria (1843) and the Spanish slave brigantine Roberto (1842), along with 2 other vessels of which the nationalities were not recorded. In 1848, the ship was made a storeship first in Devonport and then at Rio de Janeiro after 1853. It was eventually sold in 1863.[1]
Commanding officers
- 1830— Sir Robert Spencer, second son of the Earl of Spencer died aboard ship in Malta.
- 1830-1834—Captain Edmund Lyons
- 1838-1839—Provo Wallis, KCB, East Indies
- 1840—Out of Commission
- 1841—1844—Captain John Foote, west coast of Africa
- 1847—Robert Mann
- 1853—John William Finch, storeship, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 1855—John Ptolemy Thurburn, storeship, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 1856—John Mortimer Leycester, storeship, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 1859-1863—Vice Admiral Richard Dunning White, CB, storeship, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil[2]