HMS Arrogant (1848)

[2] In 1854 Arrogant was part of the fleet deployed to the Baltic Sea on the outbreak of the Crimean War, and served in that theatre until 1855.

The Arrogant anchoring off the batteries, kept up a furious cannonade, while the Hecla ran in, throwing shells on the enemy, and taking a barque in tow, and steamed away with her.

Three of the ship's company, Lieutenant John Bythesea, Captain of the Mast George Ingouville and stoker William Johnstone won Victoria Crosses.

Ingouville won his VC after heroically saving Arrogant's second cutter under heavy enemy fire off Viborg on 13 July 1855.

Later in the Crimean War, four vessels of the Royal Navy—Arrogant, Cossack, Magicienne, and Ruby—silenced the Russian batteries at a fort on Gogland on 21 July 1855, while the Anglo-French fleet went on to attack Sveaborg before returning home.

Gallant affair of the Hecla and Arrogant
The parson and the pig, an incident at the burning of Kotka barracks, Finland, by Captain Yelverton of the Arrogant , burnt on the night of 26–27 July 1855
The Gun-Boat Ruby, and boats of the Arrogant and Magicienne reconnoitring the Strait of Stralsund , 1855