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HMS ''Coromandel'' was a wooden paddle dispatch vessel of the Royal Navy. She was built for the P&O company as the passenger and cargo steamer ''Tartar''. The Navy purchased her in 1855 and she participated in several battles in Chinese waters, including having been sunk and recovered. The Navy sold her in 1866 and she went through several changes in ownership before she was broken up in 1876.
/ref> On 8 September 1853 she sailed from Southampton for the Far East where she was to provide a feeder service for the P&O Line on the China coast. ''Cadiz'' towed ''Tartar'' for the first four days, but then ''Tartar'' completed the rest of voyage to Singapore mostly under sail. On 4 June 1854 ''Tartar'' sailed to the Paracel Islands to assist , which had run aground there on 26 May. Salvage efforts were abandoned on 10 June.
''Coromandel'' was at all three of the battles of the Pei-ho or Taku Forts: Battle of Taku Forts (1858), First (1858), Battle of Taku Forts (1859), Second (1859), and Battle of Taku Forts (1860), Third Battle of the Taku Forts (1860). In the second, in 1859, she was sunk but was later raised, repaired, and returned to service. On 23 August 1859 she was the flagship of Vice-Admiral James Hope (Royal Navy officer), James Hope.
On 25 October 1861 ''Coromandel'' was under the command of Lieutenant Duncan George Davidson and serving as tender to . From 29 October 1862 she was under the command of lieutenant Robert Peel Denniston and serving as a tender to . From 17 August 1863 she was under the command of Lieutenant George Poole. ''Euryalus'' participated in both the Anglo-Satsuma War, bombardment of Kagoshima on 16 August 1863 and the bombardment of Shimonoseki in September 1864; it is not clear whether ''Coromandel'' was in company.
P&O company
''Tartar'' had a shallow-draught wooden hull, strengthened by diagonal planking and reinforced with iron scantlings.P&O Heritage Ship Fact Sheet: ''Tartar''./ref> On 8 September 1853 she sailed from Southampton for the Far East where she was to provide a feeder service for the P&O Line on the China coast. ''Cadiz'' towed ''Tartar'' for the first four days, but then ''Tartar'' completed the rest of voyage to Singapore mostly under sail. On 4 June 1854 ''Tartar'' sailed to the Paracel Islands to assist , which had run aground there on 26 May. Salvage efforts were abandoned on 10 June.
Royal Navy
Lieutenant Sholto Douglas commissioned ''Coromandel'' in October 1856 for operations on the Pearl River (China), Canton river. She served in the Arrow War (1856–1860) in China, firing the first shot of the war on 23 October 1856 during the Battle of Canton (1856), capture of Canton. On 1 June 1857 she was at the Battle of Fatshan Creek, during which she ran aground. There she served as the flagship for Rear-Admiral Michael Seymour (Royal Navy officer, born 1802), Michael Seymour. From 2 July she served as a Ship's tender, tender to . On 22 September she was under the command of Master William H. Vine.
''Coromandel'' was at all three of the battles of the Pei-ho or Taku Forts: Battle of Taku Forts (1858), First (1858), Battle of Taku Forts (1859), Second (1859), and Battle of Taku Forts (1860), Third Battle of the Taku Forts (1860). In the second, in 1859, she was sunk but was later raised, repaired, and returned to service. On 23 August 1859 she was the flagship of Vice-Admiral James Hope (Royal Navy officer), James Hope.
On 25 October 1861 ''Coromandel'' was under the command of Lieutenant Duncan George Davidson and serving as tender to . From 29 October 1862 she was under the command of lieutenant Robert Peel Denniston and serving as a tender to . From 17 August 1863 she was under the command of Lieutenant George Poole. ''Euryalus'' participated in both the Anglo-Satsuma War, bombardment of Kagoshima on 16 August 1863 and the bombardment of Shimonoseki in September 1864; it is not clear whether ''Coromandel'' was in company.
Later career
The Navy sold ''Coromandel'' in 1866 to R. Byrne & Company, Hong Kong. In 1867 she was sold to Kishu, Japan, where her new owners renamed her ''Naruto''. Glover & Co., of Hong Kong, purchased her in 1868, and converted her to screw propulsion. The company went bankrupt and she was sold to Wright & Co., of Nagasaki, who sold her to Iwatani Shozo, who sold her to Hunt & Co., managers in Japan for the Netherlands Trading Society. She then underwent extensive repairs.Fate
In 1876 Hunt & Co. sold the vessel to shipbreakers. She had been laid up at Yokohama for some time during which her hull had suffered from white ants.Citations
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