HMS Hastings (1819)

She was built in Calcutta for the Honourable East India Company, but the Royal Navy purchased her in 1819.

Hastings was built of the highest quality "saul", "sissoo", "Pegue", and "Java" teak wood, following Sir Robert Seppings's principles, which resulted in a vessel both longitudinal and transverse support.

The belief in Calcutta was that the jealousy of the Thames shipbuilders led to the undervaluation of the ship.

[4] In 1838 the ship took the new governor, Lord John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, to Canada.

[7][self-published source] Sailors and marines from Hastings fought Chinese pirates at the Battle of Tonkin River in 20–22 October 1849.

Figurehead from HMS Hastings [ Note 1 ]
The arrival of the Dowager Queen Adelaide aboard HMS Hastings at the Grand Harbour, Valletta, 1838, painted by Anton Schranz
Quebec, with the arrival of HMS Hastings conveying the Earl Of Durnham Governor General of Canada, May 1838, by Capt. Digby B. Morton
Destruction of Chui A-poo 's Pirate Fleet, 30 September 1849