HMS Calliope

Survived

Type	Frigate
War	First Opium War
Main guns	Upperdeck: 20 × 32-pdr gunnades

26-gun sixth rate. Led the attack on Chuenpi and the push up the Pearl River to the First Bar. Later served in the New Zealand Wars.

Garden Reach, Calcutta, HMS Calliope saluting 1841, by Francis Meynell R.N. Calliope is being towed by a naval paddle wheel tugboat Meynell entered the navy as midshipman during the campaign in China, on board the Calliope. He was mentioned for the assistance rendered at the capture on 13 March 1841 Photo: Lieutenant Francis Meynell R.N. 1821-1870, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

Upperdeck: 20 × 32-pdr gunnades
Quarterdeck: 6 × 32-pdr gunnades
Foc's'le: 2 × 32-pdr gunnades

Builder	Sheerness Dockyard
Laid down	January 1831
Launched	5 October 1837
Commissioned	10 October 1837
Length	130 ft 2 in (39.7 m) (gundeck) 109 ft 3 in (33.3 m) (keel)
Complement	175

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

5 October 1837

Second Battle of Chuenpi

Survived

7 January 1841

Battle of the Bogue

Survived

23–26 February 1841

Battle of First Bar

Survived

27 February 1841

Captain Herbert's ship

Fate

Survived

Broken up at Plymouth in November 1883