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== Summary ==
HMS Pearl was a 21-gun screw corvette of the Royal Navy launched in 1855. During a voyage under Captain Edward Sotheby which took her round the world she was in action in the [[2nd China War]]. At Hong Kong Pearl was ordered to [[Calcutta]] to assist the British forces opposing the Indian Mutiny. Sotheby formed 175 of the ship's crew into Pearl's Naval Brigade in September 1857. The small force, armed largely with rifles, took part in several actions. It was accompanied in many of these by a similar force formed from the crew of HMS Shannon.

== Edward Sotheby ==


== Pearl's Officers ==
A list of the officers is given on the [http://www.pdavis.nl/Mutiny.htm this web site] where there are also more details of the following individuals:
*[http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=733 Captain Edward Southwell Sotheby]
*[http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=1396 Lieutenant Nicholas Edward Brook Turnour]
*[http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=1366 Lieutenant Henry Duncan Grant]
*[http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=1516 Lieutenant Hawkesworth Fawkes]
*[http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=1380 Midshipman Lord Charles Thomas Montagu Douglas Scott]
*[http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=1494 Midshipman Hon. Victor Alexander Montagu]
*[http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=1501 Midshipman Henry Frederick Stephenson]
*[http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=1454 Midshipman Charles Edward Foot]
*[http://www.pdavis.nl/Williams.php Rev Edward Adams Williams MA]

== External links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Pearl_(1855) HMS Pearl] Wikipedia<br>
[http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1224 HMS Pearl] www.pdavis.nl<br>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl%27s_Naval_Brigade Pearl's Naval Brigade] Wikipedia<br>
[http://www.pdavis.nl/Mutiny.htm Description of the Brigade's service]  www.pdavis.nl<br> 
[http://books.google.com/books?id=BWLypQe-OsEC&pg=PA357&dq=Sotheby+Clifton+Portsmouth&lr=&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=Sotheby%20Clifton%20Portsmouth&f=false Short biography of Captain Edward Sotheby RN] Google Books<br>

==== Historical books on-line ====
''The Cruise of the Pearl round the World'' by Rev E A Wiliams MA 1859 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hsVGAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA54&dq=The+Cruise+of+HMS+Pearl#v=onepage&q=The%20Cruise%20of%20HMS%20Pearl&f=false The Naval brigade in India] Google Books

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