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PORTLAND
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Built in 1822, Plymouth.
Sold in 1862. |
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- Her keel was laid in August 1817.
- 1822 Plymouth.
- 1834 Capt. David PRICE, 05/1834, Mediterranean.
In 1837 she carried King Otto of Greece to Athens and a political crisis.
From 1838 to 1850 she remained out of commission in Plymouth. - She was commissioned by Capt. Henry CHADS on 26 August 1850.
In November she sailed for the Pacific as the Flag Ship of Rear Ad. Fairfax Moresby, with COCKATRICE (4) as her tender. - After the the agreement between Britain and the USA in 1846 by which the territories of Oregon, Washington and Idaho became American while Britain acquired Vancouver Island, there were worries that settlers from Oregon would try and take over the new colony by infiltration.
PORTLAND's visit to Esquimalt, now a major Canadian Naval Base, was the first by a British Flagship, and was designed to forestall this.
From May 1854 she remained out of commission at Plymouth until she was sold in May 1862.
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