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HMS Cornwallis was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 May 1813 at Bombay. She was built of teak. The capture of Java by USS Constitution delayed the completion of Cornwallis as Java had been bringing her copper sheathing from England. On 27 April 1815, Cornwallis engaged the American sloop USS Hornet, which had mistaken the Cornwallis for a merchant ship. Heavily outgunned, the Hornet was forced to throw boats, guns and other equipment overboard in order to escape.

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  • HMS Cornwallis was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 May 1813 at Bombay. She was built of teak. The capture of Java by USS Constitution delayed the completion of Cornwallis as Java had been bringing her copper sheathing from England. On 27 April 1815, Cornwallis engaged the American sloop USS Hornet, which had mistaken the Cornwallis for a merchant ship. Heavily outgunned, the Hornet was forced to throw boats, guns and other equipment overboard in order to escape.
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  • The Treaty of Nanking is signed in the Great Cabin of HMS Cornwallis
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  • HMS Cornwallis was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 May 1813 at Bombay. She was built of teak. The capture of Java by USS Constitution delayed the completion of Cornwallis as Java had been bringing her copper sheathing from England. On 27 April 1815, Cornwallis engaged the American sloop USS Hornet, which had mistaken the Cornwallis for a merchant ship. Heavily outgunned, the Hornet was forced to throw boats, guns and other equipment overboard in order to escape. After China's defeat in the First Opium War, representatives from the British and Qing Empires negotiated a peace treaty aboard Cornwallis in Nanjing. On 29 August 1842, British representative Sir Henry Pottinger and Qing representatives, Qiying, Ilibu and Niujian, signed the Treaty of Nanking aboard her. Cornwallis was fitted with screw propulsion and reduced to 60 guns in 1855, and took part in the Crimean War, where she was commanded by George Wellesley, future admiral and First Sea Lord, and the nephew of the Duke of Wellington. She was converted to a jetty at Sheerness in 1865. In 1916 she was renamed HMS Wildfire and used as a base ship. She was finally broken up in 1957 at Sheerness, some 144 years after her launching.
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