HMS Euryalus (1853)

HMS Euryalus (1853)

::"See HMS "Euryalus" for other ships of this name."HMS "Euryalus" was a 35-gun wooden screw frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Chatham in 1853, displaced 2,371 tons and had a complement of 515.

She arrived at Yokohama on 14 September 1862, the date of the Namamugi Incident, and served as Admiral Sir Augustus Kuper's flagship during the bombardment of Kagoshima in August 1863 and the bombardment of Shimonoseki in September 1864, where Duncan Gordon Boyes won his Victoria Cross at the remarkably young age of 17.


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