38
CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO
264
MILITARY OPERATIONS IN CHINA.
30
No. 30.-
RETURN of REGIMENTS and DETACHMENTS sent to China from India, or from the United Kingdom, in 1841 or 1842, stating the Dates of the Orders given for sending them, and the Dates of their Embarkation and Arrival.
Regiments.
Date of Order.
Date of Embarkation.
Serjeants.
Drummers.
Rank and File.
Date of Arrival.
- No. 31.-
RETURN of the Sums of WAR sent from the United Kingdom to China, in 1841 and 1842; the Dates when they were put in Commission; the Dates when they were reported fit for Sea; together with the Dates of their departure for China, and the Dates of their Arrival at their respective Stations in China, and the Names of those Stations.
SHIP'S NAME.
CLASS.
18th Foot (Det.)
-
29 Mar. 1841
31 Mar. 1841
2
-
305
18 June 1841, from Bombay.
Date of Commissioning.
When reported fit for Sea.
Date of Sailing from England.
Date of Arrival on Station.
Name of Station.
REMARKS.
Endymion
-
5th rate
4 Nov. 1840.
8 Jan. 1841,
from India
26th " (Det.)
4 June 1841
June
2
-
173
5 Aug. 1841, from Bengal,
27
49th " (Det.)
-
ditto
June
1
1
224
14 Aug. 1841, from ; 22 Bengal.
55th " (Regt.).
23 May
42
17
ง
22
796 July 1841, from Bengal.
1
47
181,498
Cornwallis
Siren
3d sloop-
17
19
5 April 1841. 9 June.
16 Aug.
29
3 July
"
23 Oct.
16 Nov.
وو
"
2 Feb. 1841. 31Aug.1841. Bombay
16 Nov.
19Mar.1842.
-
-- did not arrive in China till "" Singapore.
18th Foot (Det.)
Ditto
7 June 1841 26 June 1841
-
162
December 1841.
3 Nov.
29 Nov.
1
43
ō June 1842.
Harlequin
Cambrian
ditto
26
26
25
>>
"
"
**
"
31 May
"
5th rate
23
2 Nov.
9
>>
31
""
**
27 April
Hong Kong.
China,
May 1849.
-not employed in China; but at Moulmein.
*
33
**
26th Foot (Det.)
7 June
26 June
-
130
January 1842.
Thalia
ditto
7 Sept.
"
4 Jan. 1842. 7 Jan. 1842.
31 May »
Hong Kong.
"2
22
Ditto
5 Nov.
1 Dec.
1
-
441
5 June 1842.
Serpent -
sloop -
1
-
27 Nov.1841.
3
30
ditto.
"
"
11
""
13
;
32
1841,
49th Foot (Det.)
7 June
26 June
3
-
252
January 1842.
North Star
6th rate
I Dec.
"
22
17
19 Dec. 1841. 31
ditto.
3y
""
33
23
from
Ditto -
5 Nov.
29 Nov.
"}
England.
55th Foot (Det.)
-
7 June
26 June
སྶ
A
2
1
195
5 June 1842.
Dido
ditto
4
30 Nov,
"
57
23 Jan.1842.
30
ditto.
"J "
1
-
266
December 1841.
Driver
steam vessel
1
-
15 Feb, 1842.
16 Mar.
39
>
ゆう
21 July »
China.
12
Ditto
5 Nov. »
1 Dec.
કો
2
-
102
5 June 1842.
Vixen
ditto
1
-
27 Nov.1841. 15 Jan.
39
"
"}
- May
""
Hong Kong.
"2
98th (6 Companies) | 13 Nov.
11 »
-
86
12
721
ditto.
Hazard
-
sloop
20 Oct.
10 Dec.
2
-
10 June
China.
"
**
""
19
"
**
R1. Artillery (Det.)
11
-
4
123
ditto.
27
22
49
15 2,425
Vindictive
Belleisle -
4th rate
14
31
15 Mar.
19
27
"
多
13
33
23
""
Hong Kong.
troop ship
26
30 Nov.
20 Dec.1841.
3
China.
17
From India and England in 1841
18 May 1842 17 June 1842
ditto
ditto
1
-
06
33 13,923
Apollo
ditto
+
3 Nov.
30
20
4
ditto.
77
"
"
22
Sapphire
ditto
12 Oct. 1839. 25
20
4
ditto.
"
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多功
27
22
39
www
-
1
ditto
ditto
18th Foot (Det.)
-
26th
1842,
» (Det.)
Ditto
25
from
England.
49th Foot (Det.)
155
Wolf
55th
13
(Det.)
-
ditto
ditto
I
-
103
TOTAL in 1842 -
1
1 402
GENERAL TOTAL, 1841 and 1842
97
344,325
Adjutant-General's Office,
(signed)
1
1
96
23
Minden -
Wolverenc
Agincourt
18
*
">
hospital ship 3 Dec. 1841.
sloop-
1 Feb. 1842. | 18Mar. 1842.
16 Aug. "
Chusan.
15
6
29 June
24
"
21
"
Singapore.
3d rate
sloop-
1 Feb. 1842.
15 June
20 April
1 Aug.
27
9 May
22 Sept. "
37
5 Aug.
30 Jan. 1843.
Hong Kong.
China.
5 August 1843.
J. Macdonald,
Adjutant-General.
N. B. The Pelican sloop, ordered to China from Lisbon on 12 June 1841; the Camelion brig, and Clio sloop, from Brazil on 8 June 1841, and the Wanderer sloop, from the Cape of Good Hope on 7 January 1842.
The Plover surveying vessel, and Royalist brig, were purchased in the East Indies; the former, on the 23d May, and the latter on the 11th July 1841, for service on the Coast of China; and the Childers sloop arrived in China on the 29th May 1842 from Moulmein, having been relieved there by the Syren sloop, which sailed from England in November 1841, as above stated.
Admiralty, 12 August 1843.
596.
F 3