HMS Comet (1828)
HMS ''Comus'' was an 18-gun sloop, the name ship of her class, built for the Royal Navy during the 1820s. Description ''Comus'' had a length at the gundeck of and at the keel. She had a beam of , and a depth of hold of . The ship's tonnage was 462 tons burthen.Winfield, p. 903 The ''Comet'' class was armed with a pair of 9-pounder cannon in the bow and sixteen 32-pounder carronades. The ships had a crew of 125 officers and ratings.Winfield & Lyon, p. 117 Construction and career ''Comus'', the second ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,Colledge, p. 311 was ordered with the name of ''Comet'' on 15 May 1821, laid down in October 1826 at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 14 August 1828. She was completed on 28 February 1829 at Plymouth Dockyard and commissioned on November 1828. The ship was renamed ''Comus'' on 31 October 1832. On 17 November 1833, ''Comus'' ran aground on the North Bank in Liverpool Bay during a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, Englan ...
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United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in the British Isles that existed between 1801 and 1922, when it included all of Ireland. It was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into a unified state. The establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 led to the remainder later being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927. The United Kingdom, having financed the European coalition that defeated France during the Napoleonic Wars, developed a large Royal Navy that enabled the British Empire to become the foremost world power for the next century. For nearly a century from the final defeat of Napoleon following the Battle of Waterloo to the outbreak of World War I, Britain was almost continuously at peace with Great Powers. The most notable exception was the Crimean War with the Russian Empire, in which actual hostilities were relatively li ...
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