HMS ''Madagascar'' was a 46-gun fifth-rate , built at Bombay and launched on 15 November 1822. ''Madagascar'' delivered Bavarian Prince Otto, who had been selected as the

King of Greece The Kingdom of Greece was ruled by the House of Wittelsbach between 1832 and 1862 and by the House of Glücksburg from 1863 to 1924, temporarily abolished during the Second Hellenic Republic, and from 1935 to 1973, when it was once more abolishe ...

, to his new capital

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in 1833. In 1843, ''Madagascar'' was assigned to suppress the slave trade, which was illegal in Britain. Operating off the west African coast, it successfully detained the Portuguese slave

schooner A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoo ...

''Feliz'' in 1837, the Brazilian slave ships ''Ermelinda Segunda'' (detained 1842), ''Independencia'' (1843), ''Prudentia'' (1843) and ''Loteria'' (1843), and the Spanish slave

brigantine A brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast). The main mast is the second and taller of the two masts. Ol ...

''Roberto'' (1842), along with two other vessels of which the nationalities were not recorded. In 1848, ''Madagascar'' became a storeship, first in Devonport and then at

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

after 1853. She was sold in 1863.

Commanding officers

* 1815 – Thomas Gwyther RN * 1830 – Sir Robert Spencer, second son of the Earl of Spencer died aboard ship in

Malta Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...

. * 1830–1834 – captain Edmund Lyons * 1838–1839 – Provo Wallis, KCB,

East Indies The East Indies (or simply the Indies), is a term used in historical narratives of the Age of Discovery. The Indies refers to various lands in the East or the Eastern hemisphere, particularly the islands and mainlands found in and around ...

* 1840 – Out of Commission * 1841–1844 – captain John Foote, west coast of

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* 1847 – Robert Mann * 1853 – John William Finch, storeship, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * 1855 – John Ptolemy Thurburn, storeship, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * 1856 – John Mortimer Leycester, storeship, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * 1859–1863 – Vice Admiral Richard Dunning White, CB, storeship, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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