Service History
In December 1853 G. Ramsay was appointed captain, and the ship served in the Baltic Campaign in 1854-1855. Under the command of J.W. Tarleton, she served in the Mediterranean in 1858.
She arrived at Yokohama on 14 September 1862, the date of the Namamugi Incident, and served as Admiral Sir Augustus Kuper's flagship during the bombardment of Kagoshima in August 1863 and the bombardment of Shimonoseki in September 1864. During the bombardment of Kagoshima the captain of Euryalus, John James Steven Josling, was killed, as was his second-in-command, Commander Wilmot, both decapitated by the same cannonball. It was at Shimonoseki that Duncan Gordon Boyes won his Victoria Cross at the remarkably young age of 17. The captain and commander of the ship at Shimonoseki was Captain John Hobhouse Inglis Alexander, who was severely wounded in the ankle as he led the assault on the batteries onshore.
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