HMS Malacca (1853)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Malacca and Japanese ship Tsukuba.

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Malacca
Ordered	9 November 1847
Builder	Moulmein, Burma Begun by Mr Mould Completed by Mr Ladd
Laid down	29 May 1849
Launched	9 April 1853
Completed	17 August 1854
Commissioned	7 May 1853
Decommissioned	1869
Out of service	Sold in June 1869
Japan
Name	Tsukuba
Commissioned	1869
Decommissioned	1906
Reclassified	Static training vessel c. 1900
Fate	Broken up in 1906
General characteristics in British service
Class and type	Sloop (as built) Corvette (from 1862)
Displacement	1758 tons
Tons burthen	1,034 28⁄94 bm
Length	192 ft (59 m) (gundeck) 168 ft 2.5 in (51.270 m) (keel)
Beam	34 ft 4 in (10.46 m)
Depth of hold	22 ft 8 in (6.91 m)
Installed power	200 nhp/692 ihp (516 kW) After 1862: 707 ihp (527 kW)
Propulsion	As built John Penn & Son 2-cylinder (283/8in diameter, 2½ft stroke) inclined single expansion, trunk, high pressure engine Single screw After 1862 Humphrys & Tennant 2-cylinder (42¼in diameter, 26in stroke) horizontal single expansion engine
Speed	(Under steam) As built: 9.2 kn (10.6 mph) After 1862: 9.5 kn (10.9 mph)
Armament	1 × 8-inch (65cwt) gun 16 × 32-pounder (32cwt) guns
General characteristics in Japanese service
Armament	6 × 4.5-inch BL guns 2 × 30-pounder guns 2 × 24-pounder guns 4 × 6-inch QF guns (after 1892)

HM ships Grappler, Shearwater and Malacca (far right) on the Pacific Station, British Columbia

HMS Malacca was a 17-gun sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1853. She later served as the Tsukuba of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Malacca was built to a design drawn up by the Surveyor’s Department and approved in 1848. She was ordered on 9 November 1847 from a Mr. Mould, at Moulmein, Burma and was laid down on 29 May 1849. She was launched on 9 April 1853, and completed by Mr. Ladd, the Government Inspector, the original builder, Mr. Mould, having failed in the meantime. She was sailed to Britain in May 1853, where she was given her engines and her fitting out was completed at Chatham Dockyard. She was undocked on 8 August 1854.

In January 1857, she rescued the survivors from the Royal Sicilian Navy ship Carlo III, which suffered a boiler explosion and sank in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of more than half of her 100 crew. After several years of service she was re-engined in 1862, and reclassified as a corvette at about this time. After serving for a further seven years, she was sold in June 1869 to E. Bates. Bates sold her later that year to the Imperial Japanese Navy, who took her into service as the Tsukuba. She served as a stationary training ship after about 1900, and was broken up in 1906.

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