HMS Winchester

To Edward Griffith Colpoys Esqr. Vice Admiral of the White. This Plate of H.M.S. WINCHESTER Is respectfully dedicated to Captain C. J. Austen and Officers of that Ship.

MODERN RESTRIKE, with hand colour, of an aquatint by E. Duncan after the painting by W.J. Huggins. Originally published 1 January 1830 by W.J. Huggins, Leadenhall Street, London.

Image size: 11 7/8" x 18 1/2"

Framed size: 21" x 27"

HMS Winchester was launched on 21 June 1822 and commissioned on 16 September. In 1828, Charles Austen, brother of novelist Jane, was nominated by Sir Edward Griffith Colpoys to be his flag captain aboard HMS Winchester at the North America and West Indies Station. Austen was invalided home after a severe accident in December 1830. In the 1840s, Winchester was the flagship on the Cape of Good Hope Station. In 1854 during the the Second Opium War, some of her crew were involved in the attack on Canton. In 1861 she was renamed Conway when she became the training ship of the port of Liverpool, and in 1876 she was yet again renamed, becoming Mount Edgcumbe, the training ship for the homeless boys of Plymouth. She was finally broken up in 1921.

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