HMS Coromandel (1855)

HMS Coromandel in 1860
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Coromandel
Namesake:	Coromandel Coast
Acquired:	8 January 1855
Fate:	Sold 17 August 1866 in Hong Kong. Renamed Naruto, the ship was broken up in 1876
General characteristics
Displacement:	303 builder's measure tons
Length:	172 ft (52 m)
Beam:	24 ft (7.3 m)

HMS Coromandel was a wooden paddle dispatch vessel of the Royal Navy. The ship was called Tartar before its purchase by the Navy in 1855, and was sold out of service in 1866. She served in the Arrow War (1856–1860) in China, firing the first shot of the war on 23 October 1856 during the capture of Canton. She later served in the Battle of Fatshan Creek (1857), and the First and Third Battles of the Taku Forts in 1858 and 1860.

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