Name HMS Alligator Builder Cochin Completed By 3 September 1822 Launched 29 March 1821 | Ordered 5 June 1819 Laid down November 1819 Construction started November 1819 | |
Reclassified Depot ship in June 1841Troopship in July 1842Seamen’s hospital in December 1846 | ||
HMS Alligator was a 28-gun Atholl-class sixth rate of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Cochin, British India on 29 March 1821.
The Alligator, under the command of Captain Lambert, operated in the Bay of Islands in New Zealand during the 1830s. In March 1834, the Alligator, was on hand (and fired the 21-gun salute) at the first hoisting of the first national flag of New Zealand, at Waitangi.
She eventually became a depot ship at Trincomalee in June 1841, and was then converted to a troopship in July 1842. Alligator was finally hulked as seamen’s hospital at Hong Kong in December 1846.
Fate
She was sold at Hong Kong on 30 October 1865.'
References
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