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{{other ships|Hastings (East Indiaman)|HMS Hastings}}
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|Ship caption=The ''Hastings'', lying in Ordinary in the Medway, December 1829
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|Ship country=United Kingdom
|Ship flag=[[File:Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg|50px]]
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|Ship builder=Kyd & Co, [[Kidderpore]]<ref name=NA>National Archives:''Hastings'' (2),[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/73ffe49b-6162-4265-a163-85bbf7f16528] - accessed 23 November 2014.</ref>
|Ship name=''Hastings''
|Ship namesake=[[Warren Hastings]]
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|Ship launched=8 January 1818<ref>Lee (1912), pp.239-40.</ref>
|Ship fate=Sold to [[British Admiralty]] 1819
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|Ship country=[[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|UK]]
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|Header caption=<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p191">Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p191.</ref>
|Ship class=74-gun [[third rate]] [[ship of the line]]
|Ship tons burthen=1732,<ref name=Phipps/> or 1763 ([[Builder's Old Measurement|bm]])
|Ship length={{convert|176|ft|10+1/2|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (gundeck)
|Ship beam={{convert|48|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}}
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|Ship hold depth={{convert|21|ft|m|1|abbr=on}}
|Ship sail plan=[[Full-rigged ship]]
|Ship propulsion=Sails
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|Ship armament=*Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns
*Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
*[[Quarterdeck|QD]]: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder [[carronade]]s
*[[Forecastle|Fc]]: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades
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[[File:Figurehead from H.M.S. Hastings.jpg|thumb|Figurehead from HMS Hastings{{#tag:ref|The Ship's figurehead is now on display at the [[Merseyside Maritime Museum]].<ref name=guy>{{cite web |url=http://blog.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ImmortalisedInWood.aspx |title=National Museums Liverpool Blog - Immortalised in wood |first1=Stephen |last1=Guy |date=2008 |publisher=National Museums Liverpool |accessdate=13 May 2013}}</ref>|group=Note}}]]
'''HMS ''Hastings''''' was a 74-gun [[third rate]] [[ship of the line]] of the [[Royal Navy]]. She was built in [[Calcutta]] for the [[Honourable East India Company]], but the Royal Navy purchased her in 1819. The Navy sold her in 1886.

==East India Company==
''Hastings'' was built of the highest quality "saul", "sissoo", "Pegue", and "Java" [[teak wood]], following Sir [[Robert Seppings]]'s principles, which resulted in a vessel both longitudinal and transverse support. Her construction cost [[Indian rupee|sicca rupees (Sa.Rs.)]] 8,71,406 (£108,938), which the merchants of [[Kolkatta|Calcutta]] and other patriotic individuals subscribed via shares.<ref name=Phipps>Phipps (1840), pp.xiii-xiv.</ref> The full cost of getting her ready for sea was Sa.Rs. 8,71,406 (£116,375).<ref>Phipps (1840), p.41.</ref>

Captain John Hayes sailed ''Hastings'' from Calcutta on 28 March 1818. She reached [[Chennai|Madras]] on 13 April, and [[Port Louis]] on 2 July. From there she reached [[Saint Helena|St Helena]] on 15 September, and arrived at [[The Downs (ship anchorage)|The Downs]] on 3 November.<ref name=NA/>

==HMS Hastings==
[[File:The arrival of the Dowager Queen Adelaide aboard HMS Hastings at the Grand Harbour, Valletta , 1838 - Anton Schranz.jpg|thumb|The arrival of the Dowager Queen Adelaide aboard HMS Hastings at the Grand Harbour, Valletta, 1838, painted by Anton Schranz]]
The Admiralty purchased ''Hastings'' on 22 June 1819. It paid about half of what the vessel had cost the shareholders in Calcutta that had subscribed to her construction. The belief in Calcutta was that the jealousy of the Thames shipbuilders led to the undervaluation of the ship.<ref name=Phipps/>

In 1838 'the ship
'' took the new governor, Lord [[John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham]], to Canada. The ship arrived in Quebec on 27 May 1838.<ref name="L2013">{{cite book|author=Patrick Richard Carstens|author2=Timothy L|title=The Republic of Canada Almost|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HKPZhzW-AGAC&pg=PA65|date=31 January 2013|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|isbn=978-1-4797-4917-1|page=330}}{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=January 2018}}</ref>
[[File:Destruction of Chuiapoo's Pirate Fleet, 30 September 1849, by Nam-Sing BHC0632.jpg|thumb|Destruction of [[Chui A-poo]]'s Pirate Fleet, 30 September 1849]]
Sailors and marines from ''Hastings'' fought [[China|Chinese]] [[pirate]]s at the [[Battle of Tonkin River]] in 20–22 October 1849.

In 1855 she was fitted with [[propeller#Marine|screw propulsion]].<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p191" /> In 1857 the ship was deployed to [[Liverpool]] on coastal defence duties before being transferred to the Royal Naval Reserve to be used as a training ship.<ref name=guy />

==Fate==
''Hastings'' was sold out of the navy in 1886
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==Notes, citations and references==
'''Notes'''
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'''Citations'''
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'''References'''
*Lavery, Brian (2003) ''The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.'' Conway Maritime Press. {{ISBN|0-85177-252-8}}.
*Lee, Ida (1912) ''Commodore Sir John Hayes: His Voyage and Life (1767-1831) with Some Account of Admiral D'Entrecasteaux's Voyage of 1792-3''. (Longmans, Green).
*Phipps, John Phipps (of the Master Attendant's Office, Calcutta) (1840) ''A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time ...''. (Scott). (Google eBook)

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