HMS Wellington (1816)

HMS Wellington was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 September 1816 at Deptford Dockyard.^[1]

The ship had originally been named HMS Hero, but was renamed Wellington on 4 December 1816. She became a training ship in 1862, and Wellington was eventually sold out of the Navy in 1908.^[1]

In 1826, HMS Wellington introduced mosquitos to the Hawaiian Islands. These mosquitoes were introduced to a stream on Maui when sailors seeking fresh water rinsed out their water barrels in the stream. Prior to this, no mosquitoes lived in Hawaii.^[2]

Fate

Wellington was converted to a training ship and named Akbar on 10 May 1862.^[3] In January 1877, she was driven ashore at Rock Ferry, Cheshire. She was refloated on 4 January.^[4] Akbar served in as a training ship until 1908. She arrived at Thos. W. Ward, Morecambe on 8 April 1908 for breaking up.^[3]

Notes

^ a b c Lavery 2003, p.189.
^ Patterson 2009, p.162
^ a b Colledge & Warlow 2006, p.162
^ "Latest Shipping Intelligence". The Times. No. 28832. London. 6 January 1877. col F, p. 7.

References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy. London: Chatham Press. ISBN 978-1-93514-907-1.
Lavery, Brian (2003). The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
Patterson, Gordon (6 April 2009). The Mosquito Crusades: A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813547008. Retrieved 5 April 2011.

External links

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