- North Star Affair
- References
- External links
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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Pearl|corvette}} | Ship tons burthen=1469 bm[1] | 2115|LT|t|0}}[1] | 225|ft|3|in|m|abbr=on}} oa- {{convert|200|ft|m|abbr=on}} (gundeck)
| 40|ft|4|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | 16|ft|2|in|m|abbr=on}} (forward)- {{convert|19|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}} (aft)
| 23|ft|11|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship depth= | Ship power=*400 nominal horsepower- {{convert|1324|ihp|kW|lk=in|abbr=on}}[1]
| Ship propulsion=*2-cylinder trunk engine[1] | Ship sail plan=Full-rigged ship | 11.3|kn|km/h|lk=in}} (under steam) | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship complement= | Ship armament=- 20 × 8-inch (42cwt) muzzle-loading smoothbore cannons on broadside trucks
- 1 × 10-inch/68pdr (95cwt) muzzle-loading smoothbore cannons pivot-mounted at bow
| Ship armour= | Ship notes=
}} | HMS Pearl was a Pearl-class 21-gun screw corvette of the Royal Navy launched in 1855, displacing 2,187 tons. In September 1857, during the Indian Rebellion, 175 of the ship's crew were formed into Pearl{{'}}s Naval Brigade. The small force, armed largely with rifles, took part in several actions. It was accompanied in many of these by a similar force formed from the crew of {{HMS|Shannon|1855|2}}. The ship was captained by Edward Southwell Sotheby from its commission in 1855. John Borlase replaced Sotheby, on the ships return from India in 1859, from 23 August 1859 to 18 June 1864 when the ship was paid off in Portsmouth. Pearl sailed around the East Indies and China and played a part in the Taiping Rebellion and the bombardment of Kagoshima during the Anglo-Satsuma War. North Star AffairIn May 1861 the Pearl was involved in an incident involving a British merchant ship named North Star and Chinese pirates. On 13 May, pirates in a junk attacked the North Star off the coast of Hong Kong Island. They killed or mortally wounded at least five members of the crew and stole over 4,000 dollars worth of gold before abandoning the ship. Only two survivors remained on the ship and they hid from the pirates until they left the North Star and then they set sail for the port of Hong Kong. HMS Pearl was anchored off Green Island at the time and she eventually recovered both the merchantman and the survivors.[2] References- Notes
1. ^1 2 3 Winfield (2004) p.209
2. ^{{cite news |title=News and Notes CLXIV |author=A Sydney Man |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4600092 |newspaper=The Courier |publisher= |location=Brisbane |date=23 July 1861 |page=3 |accessdate=3 January 2012}}
- Bibliography
- {{cite book|last=Clowes|first=William Laird|title=The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen Victoria: Volume VII|date=1903|publisher=Sampson Low, Marston and Company|url=https://archive.org/details/royalnavy07clow}}
- {{colledge}}
- {{cite book|last=Williams|first=E.A.|title=The Cruise of the Pearl Round the World: With an Account of the Operations of the Naval Brigade in India|year=1859|publisher=Richard Bentle|location=London|url=https://archive.org/details/cruiseofpearlrou00willrich}}
- {{winfield}}
External links- Record of service at the Naval Database website
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