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| Name | Asia (1824) | Explanation | |
| Type | Second rate | ||
| Launched | 19 January 1824 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 2289 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 84 | ||
| Fate | 1908 | ||
| Class | Canopus | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1858 guard ship | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 21 June 1828 - 8 May 1830 | Commanded by Captain William James Hope Johnstone, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, Mediterranean | ||
| 25 December 1831 - 28 July 1834 | Commanded by Captain Peter Richards, flagship of Rear-Admiral William Parker, Lisbon | ||
| 18 March 1836 - May 1841 | Commanded by Captain William Fisher, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840) | ||
| 25 August 1847 - 24 May 1851 | Commanded by Captain Robert Fanshawe Stopford, flagship of Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby, Pacific | ||
| 25 April 1859 - 18 May 1861 | Commanded by Captain George Thomas Gordon, guard ship of Ordinary, Portsmouth (replacing Hannibal) | ||
| 19 May 1861 - 27 February 1864 | Commanded by Captain Henry Broadhead, guard ship of Ordinary, Portsmouth (replacing Hannibal) | ||
| 26 February 1864 - 7 May 1866 | Commanded by Captain Henry Caldwell, guard-ship of Ordinary, Portsmouth | ||
| 11 June 1866 - 2 December 1868 | Commanded by Captain William Charles Chamberlain, Portsmouth (flag-ship of Admiral Superintendent) and captain of the Steam Reserve | ||
| 3 December 1868 - 31 December 1871 | Commanded by Captain Edward Bridges Rice, Portsmouth (flag-ship of Admiral Superintendent) and captain of the Steam Reserve | ||
| 1 January 1872 - 5 March 1874 | Commanded by Captain Richard James Meade, flagship of Rear-Admiral Francis Leopold McClintock, Admiral Superintendent, Portsmouth | ||
| 14 March 1876 - 14 May 1877 | Commanded by Captain Charles Lodowick Darley Waddilove, Guardship of Reserve, Portsmouth | ||
| 15 May 1877 - 15 October 1877 | Commanded by Captain George Henry Parkin, and Captain of the Steam Reserve, Portsmouth | ||
| 31 August 1880 - 20 June 1881 | Commanded by Captain William Codrington, and Captain of the Steam Reserve, Portsmouth | ||
| 20 June 1881 - 1 July 1884 | Commanded by Captain Philip Howard Colomb, and captain of the steam reserve, Portsmouth | ||
| 21 June 1884 - 16 July 1885 | Commanded by Captain Henry Frederick Nicholson, flagship of Rear-Admiral Frederick Anstruther Herbert, Guardship of Reserve, Portsmouth | ||
| 27 July 1885 - 31 December 1887 | Commanded by Captain Richard Edward Tracey, captain of the Steam Reserve, Portsmouth | ||
| 14 November 1889 - 31 July 1891 | Commanded by Captain Albert Hastings Markham, flagship of Rear-Admiral William Elrington Gordon, Admiral Superintendent, Portsmouth | ||
| 28 June 1899 - 23 June 1901 | Commanded by Captain Alfred Arthur Chase Parr, guard ship of Reserve, flag ship of the Admiral Superintendant, Portsmouth | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Ma 12 April 1841 | (From the Hampshire Telegraph of Saturday.) The St. Vincent, Madagascar, and Fair Rosamond, were put out of the basin on Monday, and the Vindictive and Warspite on Tuesday, in order that the basin might be run dry, to repair the works of the wood-mills.The Mercury sailed to-day for Sheerness, with a lieutenant of the Indus on board, to volunteer men from the Asia for that ship. The Emerald sailed yesterday for Devonport, with seamen gunners for the Cornwallis. The keel of a second class steamer, to be called the Thunderbolt, was laid down in this dockyard on Wednesday last. | ||
| Fr 23 April 1841 | Portsmouth.— There is a report that the Warspite, 50, is to be forthwith commissioned here, for the broad pendant of Commodore Sir Charles Napier, who is to have the command in the Pacific. The line-of-battle ships, Edinburgh, 72, Captain Henderson, and Bellerophon, 78, Captain C.J. Austen, are ordered home from the Mediterranean to be paid off, and may shortly be expected to arrive. The Hastings, 72, Captain Lawrence, will leave Malta for England, for the same purpose, in May next. The transport Belle Alliance, in command of Lieutenant Densten, has put into Plymouth from Deptford, with naval and ordnance stores for the squadron in the China seas. The Fair Rosamond schooner has been commissioned at this port by Lieutenant Bulman, for service on the coast of Africa. The Bonetta brigantine, Lieutenant Austen, fitting out at Chatham, is to go to the same station, and to be at Spithead by the 23th inst. The Stag, 46, Commodore Thomas Sullivan, recently from the Brazils, will haul down the pendant on Friday at Plymouth, and be hauled into dock to be surveyed as to her fitness for re-commissioning. The surveying vessel Thunder, Commander G. Barnett, according to private letters, will be in England in July next, to be paid on, from the Bahamas. The brig Acorn, 16, Commander Adams, has reached Plymouth from the Cape station, and is ordered to be refitted there without delay. She left Simon's-bay on the 28th of January, at which date Rear-Admiral Elliot had not arrived from China on his homeward voyage. Rear-Admiral Sir Edward King, K.C.B., was daily expected to arrive at the Cape from the Rio Plata in the Southampton frigate. The Acorn brought no news. The steam frigate Salamander, Commander Henry, returned to Sheerness on Monday, being ordered for some special service forthwith. The Asia, 84, recently from the Mediterranean, is to be forthwith reported upon, for recommissioning at Sheerness. Several large frigates and steamships are in active progress of completion for commission, should any emergency arise. — Brighton Gazette. | ||
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