HMS Topaze (1858)

HMS Topaze (1858)

HMS "Topaze" was a 24-gun "Liffey" class wooden screw frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 1858-05-12, at Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth. Her crew assisted in the building of the Race Rocks Lighthouse in British Columbia, Canada, and laid a bronze tablet in 1863 at the Juan Fernández Islands commemorating the stay of marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk. [Kraske (2005), p.100] The voyage to Easter Island in 1868 saw the crew remove the Moai "Moai Hava" and Hoa Hakananai'a and ship them to Britain, where Hoa Hakananai'a can now be seen in the British Museum.

"Topaze" was sold on 14 February 1884 and broken up at Charlton.

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References

*Colledge
*Paul Davis. "William Loney RN - Victorian naval surgeon, [http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=96 Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Topaze] " Retrieved: 2008.01.21.
*Van Tilburg, Jo Anne, (2006), "Remote Possibilities: Hoa Hakananai'a and HMS Topaze on Rapa Nui". British Museum Research Papers. ISBN 0861591585.
* Robert Kraske. (2005). Marooned: The Strange But True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk. Clarion Books. ISBN 0618568433.

External links

* [http://www.bridgeman.co.uk/search/view_image2.asp?image_id=33870 Image of the Voyage of HMS Topaz to the Pacific 1865-69.]


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