HMS Asia (1824)

HMS Asia was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 January 1824 at Bombay Dockyard.

[1] She was Codrington's flagship at the Battle of Navarino.

She served in the Syria campaign against Mehemet Ali, in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1840–41 In 1858 she was converted to serve as a guardship, and during several years she was flagship of the Admiral-Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard.

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Nowrojee Jamsetjee Wadia, the Parsi master shipbuilder. Nowrojee sits with plans of the ship, and wears a shawl as traditionally given to builders by the British East India Company on completion of a new ship
HMS Asia (centre) fighting against two Ottoman ships at the Battle of Navarino
Sternview of HMS Asia by Edward William Cooke (1811-1880)