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The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners and North America in her 113 and became a midshipman in the early part of 1839, He then joined HMS Pylades, 114 under the command of Capt. Talavera Vernon Anson. She was despatched to China shortly after Rooke joined her. 115 Whilest in China he also served in , successively, HMS Wellesley 116 and HMS Blenheim 117 , Whilst in China he was a volunteer HMS Talavera was launched 10 Oct 1815. She had 74 guns, weighed 1718 tons. At the time Rooke served in her she was under the command of Capt. William Bowen Mends She was destroyed by fire at Plymouth, on the 29 th September 1840, the year after Rooke left her company. 113 O’Bryne, W (1849) Naval Biographical Dictionary p1002 114 HMS Pylades was the third Naval vessel to bear the name, being launched 29 th June 1824 at Woolwich dockyard. The NMM has a picture of her at http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/prints/viewRepro.cfm?reproID=PW6105 She carried 18 guns, (2 x 9 pdr, 12 x 32 pdr carronades.) and normally had a crew of 125. She was 110 feet by 30 feet with a draught of 8 feet 2in and weighed just over 431 tons. She was broken up in 1845 http://anglochinesewar42.com/index.php?p=1_46_HMS-PYLADES 115 O’Bryne, W (1849) Naval Biographical Dictionary p1002 116 HMS Wellesley was a 1746 ton ship launched 24 February 1815 at Chatham dockyards. She carried 74 guns. She was commanded by Captain Thomas Maitland from 1837 and while Rooke was serving in her and she was first the flagship of Rear-Admiral Frederick Lewis Maitland, and then Commodore Sir James John Gordon Bremer, and lastly of Rear-Admiral Sir William Parker all in the East Indies. She served there until late 1842 – she is recorded as being out of commission in Plymouth in January 1843. She was sunk in the Thames by enemy bombs in September 1940 after being a training ship from 1868 under the name HMS Cornwall http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=2290 117 HMS Blenheim was a 187 foot long, 1718 tons ship launched 31 st May 1813 at Deptford dockyard. She carried 74 guns and a crew of 600. She served in the China area. Between 9 April 1839 and 14 June 1841 she was commanded by Captain Humphry Fleming Senhouse. After his death, and when Rooke was in her, she was under the command of Captain Thomas Herbert until she was paid off 28 March 1843 and fitted with a screw in 1847. She had to return to England for this and did not serve in the east again. http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=60 39
The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners in two engagements and “for his gallantry he was awarded two special certificates and was twice mentioned in the Gazette 118 ” This was the conflict known as “The Opium War 1839 - 1843” . The Opium War, though named after a single substance, was fought over cultural, diplomatic and trade differences between Britain and China. Simplistically put, British merchants were in a trade deficit in their trade with China because the British bought vast amounts of Chinese spices, silk and tea but the Chinese didn’t want anything like that amount of British goods. British merchants therefore introduced opium from India. The Chinese already had an opium problem, but the Indian material was far more potent and addictive and the merchants “sold it at great profit to an increasingly addicted Chinese populace” 119 . Chinese officials, exactly like the authorities in the UK in modern times and for exactly the same reasons, became increasingly uncomfortable with the problems of crime, fecklessness and social irresponsibility that resulted from opium misuse. An Imperial Commissioner for the Destruction of Opium 120 was appointed. Despite the western merchant’s unhappiness with what they saw as interference with trade, he journeyed to the only port where trade with outsiders was allowed 121 , in March 1839, and set about destroying 20,000 chests of opium. Chinese merchants could not henceforth trade in opium on pain of death. This was seen by Britain as an unwarranted attack on free trade, destruction of British property, and dangerous interference with British subjects. None of which, it was felt, could be tolerated. Troops were sent out from India to reinstate “free trade” and by July 1840, British warships in South China had carried a force of 4,000 men (including an artillery corps, sappers, and engineers as well as 3 regiments of foot), 118 O’Bryne, W (1849) Naval Biographical Dictionary p1002 The London Gazette entries have not yet been located. 119 “The Opium War” at http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/asia/china/opiumwar.ht m upon which this section is largely based. 120 Lin Tse-Hsu 121 Canton 40
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