HMS ''Modeste'' was a British

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

corvette A corvette is a small warship. It is traditionally the smallest class of vessel considered to be a proper (or " rated") warship. The warship class above the corvette is that of the frigate, while the class below was historically that of the slo ...

commissioned in 1838 and sold in 1866.

Operations

The ''Modeste'' was a part of the British forces engaged in the

First Opium War The First Opium War (), also known as the Opium War or the Anglo-Sino War was a series of military engagements fought between Britain and the Qing dynasty of China between 1839 and 1842. The immediate issue was the Chinese enforcement of the ...

against the

Qing Empire The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...

.Bingham, J. Elliot
''Narrative of the Expedition to China.''
Vol. 1. London: Henry Colburn. 1843.

References

*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. 120.

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