HMS Jasper (1857)

William Henry Pym and served in the North America and West Indies Station.

[1] Her notable actions included the capture of United States[2] slave vessel Emilia (aka Marianna[3]) with HMS Styx off the north coast of Cuba on 22 March 1858.

[2] On 2 August 1862, Jasper was purchased by Horatio Nelson Lay, Inspector General of the Qing Dynasty Chinese Maritime Customs Service, as part of an effort to bolster the Qing Dynasty naval force in response to the ongoing Taiping Rebellion.

[9] Upon her arrival in Tianjin, the Qing government ordered the ship to be renamed as Kuang Wan (Chinese: 廣萬; pinyin: Guǎngwàn).

[5][10] Disagreements between the Qing government and Lay over the command and composition of the Lay-Osborn Flotilla led to its disbandment in 1863, and Amoy was taken to Bombay by Osborn, presumably for sale.