HMS_Starling_(1829)

HMS <i>Starling</i> (1829)

HMS Starling (1829)

Cutter of the Royal Navy

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Starling.

HMS Starling was a 4-gun schooner of the British Royal Navy, one of the two ships in an expedition led by Edward Belcher to survey the Pacific coast of the Americas.[1]Henry Kellett was captain of the ship in the First Opium War with China.[2]

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EIC ship Nemesis, with boats from the Sulphur, Calliope, Larne and Starling, destroying Chinese war junks in Anson's Bay, on 7 January 1841.

References

  1. [1]
    Lyon, David and Rif Winfield. The Sail and Steam Navy List: All of the Ships of the Royal Navy, 1815-1889. London: Chatham Publishing. 2004, p. 136.
  2. [2]
    Barr, William (2007). Arctic Hell-Ship: The Voyage of HMS Enterprise, 1850–1855. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-88864-472-5.


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