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HMS ''President'' was ordered in May 1818 to be built as a 58-gun frigate to the exact lines of the previous ''President'', captured from the Americans in January 1815; this prize ship was re-classed as a 60-gun fourth rate in February 1817 but was taken to pieces in June 1818. The new replacement was laid down at Portsmouth Dockyard in June 1824 and launched on 20 April 1829; she was completed in 1830 but not commissioned until February 1832. Rather than being armed identically to her namesake, her design was amended to complete her as a 52-gun frigate with an unarmed spar deck. She was later re-armed with thirty-two 32-pounder guns on the upper deck, and twenty 32-pounder carronades on the quarterdeck and forecastle. ==Service== After her first two years' commission on the North America and West Indies Station, she was refitted between February and May 1834. The years 1835–1838 were spent on the South American station. Thereafter she was at Portsmouth for several years before being fitted out as a flagship in 1845 and sent to the Cape of Good Hope for the next two-year commission. Operations in support of the suppression of the slave trade led to ''President'' sending her boats in 1847 to attack an Arab stockade at Anjoxa, Mozambique Channel. The fighting, however, was not of a very serious description.〔Clowes ''et al.'' (1901), p.366.〕 Returning from South Africa in 1847 to Chatham, she was refitted there in 1853 and sent to the Pacific Station. There she served as flagship until 1857. Between 11 May and 7 September 1854, when news was received of the declaration of war at the start of the Crimean War, the British force on the China and Japan station consisted of ''President'', Captain Richard Burridge, HMS ''Pique'', Captain Sir Frederick William Erskine Nicolson, Bart., HMS ''Amphitrite'', Captain Charles Frederick, HMS ''Trincomalee'', Captain Wallace Houstoun, and HMS ''Virago'', Commander Edward Marshall, all under Rear-Admiral David Price on ''President''. The French force, under Rear-Admiral Auguste Febvrier-Despointes, consisted of ''Forte'', ''Eurydice'', ''Artemise'', and ''Obligado''. ''President'' participated in the Siege of Petropavlovsk and in a number of operations, none of which were carried through to a satisfactory conclusion.〔Clowes ''et al.'' (1901), p.429-32.〕 During the exchange of fire with the Russian batteries, Price retired to his cabin and shot himself.〔 After suffering heavy casualties in a ground attack, the Allies withdrew, although ''President'' and ''Virago'' managed to capture and burn a Russian transport, the ''Sitka'', of 10 guns, and take a small schooner, the ''Avatska'', laden with stores. The Allies then left the area on 7 September.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS President (1829)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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