HMS Barrosa (1860)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Barossa.

History
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 Allied corvettes, including Barrosa, at the Bombardment of Shimonoseki, 1864

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 Shimonoseki in 1864, and was part of the Flying Squadron between 1869 and 1873.