Ships
| Name | Ship Builder | Launched | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jaseur | R & H Green, Blackwall Yard | 7 March 1857 | Wrecked on the Bajo Nuevo Bank on 26 February 1859, whilst on passage from Port Royal to Greytown, Nicaragua |
| Jasper | R & H Green, Blackwall Yard | 18 March 1857 | Sold on 2 August 1862 to the Chinese Imperial Customs, renamed Amoy, and sailed in April 1863 (to join Sherard Osborn’s "Vampire Fleet"). Resold to the Egyptian Government on 30 December 1865 |
| Algerine | W & H Pitcher, Northfleet | 24 February 1857 | Sold at Hong Kong on 2 April 1872, became the mercantile Algerine. Broken up in 1894. |
| Lee | W & H Pitcher, Northfleet | 28 February 1857 | Sunk at the Battle of Taku Forts on 25 June 1859 |
| Leven | W & H Pitcher, Northfleet | 7 March 1857 | Sold at Shanghai on 21 July 1873 |
| Slaney | W & H Pitcher, Northfleet | 17 March 1857 | Wrecked in a typhoon in the Paracel Islands near Hong Kong on 9 May 1870 |
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Famous quotes containing the word ships:
“Shuttles in the rocking loom of history,
the dark ships move, the dark ships move,
their bright ironical names
like jests of kindness on a murderer’s mouth;”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)
“I saw three ships come sailing by,
Come sailing by, come sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)
“Haven’t you heard, though,
About the ships where war has found them out
At sea, about the towns where war has come
Through opening clouds at night with droning speed
Further o’erhead than all but stars and angels
And children in the ships and in the towns?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)