HMS Larne (1829)

HMS Larne was an 18-gun Comet-class sloop built for the Royal Navy during the 1820s.

[1] The Comet class was armed with a pair of 9-pounder cannon in the bow and sixteen 32-pounder carronades.

[2] Larne, the second ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,[3] was ordered with the name of Orestes on 15 May 1821, renamed Lightning on 30 January 1822, laid down in July 1828 at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 2 June 1829.

[2] She was completed on 16 September 1829 at Plymouth Dockyard and commissioned on 25 June 1829.

The ship was again renamed as Larne on 12 September 1832.

EIC ship Nemesis , with boats from the Sulphur , Calliope , Larne and Starling , destroying Chinese war junks in Anson's Bay, on 7 January 1841 .