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13-685: In July 1856 Captain Charles Codrington Forsyth of HMS Hornet named the bay "Port Michael Seymour" in honour of Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour , the commander-in-chief of the East Indies and China Station (in office: 1856-1859). In July 1857 Captain Nikolay Matveevich Chikhachyov  [ ru ] of the Russian corvette Amerika named this "new bay, not [...] marked on maps" as

26-812: A broadside arrangement. Hornet served in the Baltic in 1854 during the Crimean War , and from 1854 until 1859 she served in the East Indies and in China, taking part in the Second Opium War . After a refit in 1859–1860 she recommissioned for the Cape of Good Hope Station and served both there and on the East Indies Station. Under Commander Frederick Archibald Campbell Hornet served in

39-461: A draught by Sir Robert Seppings and launched on 14 March 1831 in Bombay . She was the only ship ever built to her draught. She carried her complement of smooth-bore, muzzle-loading guns on two gundecks. Her complement was 720 men (38 officers, 69 petty officers, 403 seamen, 60 boys and 150 marines). In 1855 the ship had been in reserve, but was recommissioned due to the Crimean War and sailed for

52-613: A reef of rocks. The Hornet ' s commander at the time, Charles Codrington Forsyth , noted in the ship's log: We could discern no dangers lying off them and the waters appear to be deep close to the shore. They are barren, without exception of a few patches of grass on their sides and landing would be difficult except in very calm weather. The height of the NW island was ascertained to be 410 ft above sea level On 12 November 1856, in company with Calcutta , Nankin , Encounter , Barracouta and Coromandel , she bombarded and captured

65-655: Is highly protected from winds and waves . This Primorsky Krai location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . HMS Hornet (1854) HMS Hornet was a 17-gun wooden screw sloop of the Cruizer class of the Royal Navy , launched in 1854 and broken up in 1868. Originally ordered in April 1847 as a "Screw Schooner", she was suspended in August 1847 and re-ordered on 1 November 1850 to

78-674: The Bogue forts and the next day, the Anunghoy forts. Christmas 1856 was spent as Guardship at Canton (now Guangzhou). In 1857 she spent much of her time at Hong Kong and in the Canton River , culminating in the capture of Canton on 28 December 1857 under Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour . In February 1859 she sailed for England, decommissioning in Portsmouth on 14 July 1859. On 20 July 1860 Hornet recommissioned for service on

91-557: The "Bay of Saint Olga" after Saint Olga of Kiev . (The previous day Chikhachyov had visited the "Bay of Saint Vladimir" (now "Vladimir Bay") to the north-east of Olga Bay, naming it after Saint Olga's grandson Saint Vladimir .) The port town of Olga stands on the northern coast of the bay; the Avvakumovka River flows into the bay's western part. The northern part of Olga Bay - Tihaya Pristan ( Russian : Тихая Пристань , lit.   'Calm or Quiet Wharf') -

104-549: The Baltic campaign of 1854 during the Russian War . On 25 April 1855 Hornet , along with HMS Sybille and HMS Bittern , under Commodore The Hon. Charles Elliot discovered Liancourt Rocks in the Sea of Japan , at 37°14′22″N 131°52′10″E  /  37.23944°N 131.86944°E  / 37.23944; 131.86944 . It was about a mile in extent, running in a NW by W and SE by E direction and formed together by

117-480: The Baltic. After two months she was sent home again, as being useless for modern naval actions. She saw action in the Second Opium War as the flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Michael Seymour , under the command of Captain William King-Hall . In 1858 Calcutta visited Nagasaki where she stayed for one week, becoming the first ship-of-the-line to visit Japan . After returning to home waters, Calcutta

130-450: The Cape of Good Hope Station under Commander William Buller Fullerton Elphinstone . She also served during this period on the East Indies Station. Hornet decommissioned at Portsmouth on 22 September 1864 and was broken up by White of Cowes in 1868. HMS Calcutta (1831) HMS Calcutta was an 84-gun second-rate ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy , built in teak to

143-684: The same design as HMS Cruizer . The wooden sloops of the Cruizer class were designed under the direction of Lord John Hay , and after his "Committee of Reference" was disbanded, their construction was supervised by the new Surveyor of the Navy , Sir Baldwin Walker . Hornet was laid down at the Royal Dockyard, Deptford in June 1851. Her two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine, which

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156-546: Was placed back into reserve at Devonport, Devon . In 1865, she was moved to Portsmouth where she served as an Experimental Gunnery Ship, moored ahead of HMS Excellent . In 1889, the HMS Excellent gunnery school was turned into a shore establishment, and Calcutta returned to Devonport where she was attached via a bridge to HMS  Cambridge as part of the Devonport Gunnery School . She

169-419: Was supplied by James Watt & Company at a cost of £5,450, generated an indicated horsepower of 233 hp (174 kW); driving a single screw, this gave a maximum speed of 7.75 knots (14.35 km/h; 8.92 mph). The class was given a barque -rig sail plan. All the ships of the class were provided with one 32-pounder (56 cwt) long gun on a pivot mount and sixteen 32-pounder (32 cwt) carriage guns in

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