HMS ''Meeanee'' was a two-deck 80-gun

second rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th-century second rates had fewer guns ...

ship of the line of the

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 ...

, launched on 11 November 1842 at

Bombay Dockyard Bombay Dockyard, also known as Naval Dockyard, is an Indian shipbuilding yard at Mumbai. The superintendent of the dockyard is a Naval Officer of the rank Rear Admiral, known as the Admiral Superintendent. Background Shipbuilding was an establi ...

. She was named after the

Battle of Meeanee The Battle of Miani (or Battle of Meeanee, ) was a battle between forces of the Bombay Army of the East India Company, under the command of Charles James Napier, Charles Napier and the Baluch army of Talpur dynasty, Talpur Emir, Amirs of Sindh, ...

. The ''Meanee'' had originally been intended to be named the ''Madras'', and retained the figurehead of a native of Madras, though it no longer appropriate. The head builder at the H.E.I. company dock and shipbuilding yard was Cursetjee Rustomjee. She sailed from Bombay for England in August 1849 with Persian artefacts for the British Museum. ''Meeanee'' was fitted with screw propulsion in 1857. In 1870 she was a hospital ship moored in the centre of Hong Kong Harbour tending to the British Army. personnel. She was broken up in 1906. Cursetjee Rustomjee ILN 1849-0106-0012

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*Lavery, Brian (2003) ''The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.'' Conway Maritime Press. . Ships of the line of the Royal Navy Vanguard-class ships of the line British ships built in India 1848 ships {{UK-line-ship-stub