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United Kingdom
Name HMS Barrosa
Launched 10 March 1860
Out of service 1873
Fate Broken up in 1887
General characteristics
Class and type Jason-class corvette
Length 225 ft (69 m)
Propulsion Screw
Complement 240
Armament 21
The Red Battery opening fire on the corvettes, Bombardment of Shimonoseki, the War in Japan - ILN 1864 (cropped)
The Red Battery opening fire on the Allied corvettes, including Barrosa, at the Bombardment of Shimonoseki, 1864
The British Flying Squadron leaving False Bay, Cape of Good Hope - ILN 1869
Barrosa and the British Flying Squadron leaving False Bay, Cape of Good Hope on 18 October 1869

HMS Barrosa was a Jason-class corvette launched on 10 March 1860 at Woolwich Dockyard and scrapped in 1877. She was 225 ft long, 41 ft wide and of 1,700 tons builders measurement, and armed with 16 × 8n, 1 × 7in and 4 × 40pdr guns. She bombarded Shimonseki in 1864, and was part of the Flying Squadron between 1869 and 1873.

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