HMS Mutine (1825)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Mutine.

HMS Mutine was laid down in Plymouth, England as a brig and launched in 1825. She spent about 20 years in the Royal Navy. Later she was converted into a barque of 287 tons.

In the 1840s she was sold to Messrs. Bennett of London to be converted into a whaler. They renamed her Aladdin and she spent some years whaling in the South Seas before being sold in 1846 to Charles Seal of Hobart, Tasmania. She continued in the whaling fleet operating out of Hobart until nearly the end of the century, being later purchased for £500 by Captain McArthur in 1860.

She was recoppered in 1867, and a cannonball was discovered beneath her skins. During the 1898 celebration of the centenary of the Battle of the Nile she was decorated with flags, as it was mistakenly believed that she was the French brig La Mutine, renamed HMS Mutine which had been captured during that engagement.

She finished as a powder hulk in the River Derwent in Hobart and was sold for breaking in 1902.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Villiers, Alan (1931). Vanished Fleets, Sea Stories from Old Van Diemen's Land (1974 ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 186–187. ISBN 0 684 14112 4.
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