HMS Pearl (1855)

HMS Pearl (1855)

HMS Pearl was a Pearl-class 21-gun screw corvette of the Royal Navy launched in 1855, displacing 2,187 tons.

In September 1857, during the Indian Rebellion, 175 of the ship's crew were formed into Pearl's Naval Brigade. The small force, armed largely with rifles, took part in several actions. It was accompanied in many of these by a similar force formed from the crew of Shannon.

The ship was captained by Edward Southwell Sotheby from its commission in 1855. On 10 March 1858 Pearl left Liverpool carrying the explorer David Livingstone and his river boat Ma Robert, arriving at the Zambesi delta on 14 May 1858 for the Second Zambesi Expedition. John Borlase replaced Sotheby, on the ships return from India in 1859, from 23 August 1859 to 18 June 1864 when the ship was paid off in Portsmouth. Pearl sailed around the East Indies and China and played a part in the Taiping Rebellion and the bombardment of Kagoshima during the Anglo-Satsuma War.

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