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== Summary ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Shannon_(1855) HMS Shannon] was a 51 gun steam frigate launched in Plymouth in 1855. She sailed under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Peel_(VC) Captain William Peel VC] via the Cape of Good Hope and Singapore to join the naval forces in the [[2nd China War]]. At Hong Kong she was diverted to take Lord Elgin to [[Calcutta]] where Peel formed a Naval Brigade to assist the British forces opposing the Indian Mutiny. Steam launches towed the brigade up the Ganges on barges in two contingents. They fought their first engagement at Kujwa and then supported Colin Campbell's forces at [[Lucknow]]. After the second relief of Lucknow they were at the Second Siege of Cawnpore. They then accompanied Colin Campbell's Oude Campaign.
== William Peel ==
'''Captain William Peel''' (1824–1858) was the third son of Sir Robert Peel, prime minister, and his wife, Julia, née Floyd (1795–1859), daughter of Sir John Floyd, was born on 2 November 1824 On 13 September 1856 he commissioned Great Britain. He served with the Shannon, a powerful 50-gun steam-frigate, for service Naval Brigade in China. She did not sail until the following MarchCrimea where he won a Victoria Cross. At Singapore she was met by the news His leadership of the Indian mutiny, and took Lord Elgin up to Hong Kong, arriving on 2 July. Admiral Sir Michael Seymour sent the Shannon back to Calcutta on July 16, with Elgin on board, together with 's Naval Brigade played a detachment of marines and soldiers. At Calcutta, Peel formed a naval brigade. On 14 August he left significant role in the [[Oude Campaign]] where the ship with 450 men, six 24-pounder Bengal artillery guns, and two 8 inch howitzers. At Allahabad on 20 October he was reinforced by a party of 120 men, and from then on was present in all the principal operations. The coolness of his bravery was everywhere remarkable, and his formidable battery gave most efficient service: the huge naval guns were, under his orders, moved and worked as though they were light able to breach fortifications which the field piecesartillery could not penetrate. On 21 January 1858 he He was nominated a KCB and an aide-de-camp to the queen. In 1858 Peel's brigade employed six naval 8 inch guns from the Shannon. Peel mounted these massive weapons, weighing 65 cwt each, on carriages locally constructed by the sailors. They provided the firepower to overcome At the massive walls of Indian forts, and to keep down British casualties. In the second relief final recapture of Lucknow on 9 March 1858 Peel he was severely wounded in the thigh by a musket bullet, which was cut out from the opposite side of the leg. Still very weak, he reached Cawnpore on his way to England, and there, on 20 April, he contracted smallpox, of which he died on 27 April, aged thirty-three. He never married. His services in the field were the highlight of the Lucknow campaigns. His men achieved unparalleled feats of arms and endurance that broke the will of the enemy. Peel was an officer distinguished alike for his bravery and his resourcefulness. He benefited from the rapid promotions provided for the son of a prime minister, although his father never actively solicited them; however, no one ever doubted that he was a worthy recipient. In creating a legendary Victorian hero, concentrating on his courage and tragic death, his hagiographers did scant justice to his professional skill and intellectual achievements. His death deprived the navy of one of its most brilliant officers; his career had only just begun. == Summary ==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Shannon_(1855) HMS Shannon] was smallpox a 51 gun steam frigate launched month later in Plymouth in 1855. She sailed under Captain William Peel VC via the Cape of Good Hope and Singapore to join the naval forces in the [[2nd China War]]. At Hong Kong she was diverted to take Lord Elgin to [[Calcutta]] where Peel formed a Naval Brigade to assist the British forces opposing the Indian Mutiny. Steam launches towed the brigade up the Ganges on barges in two contingents. They fought their first engagement at Kujwa and then supported Colin Campbell's forces Cawnpore at [[Lucknow]]. After the second relief age of Lucknow they were at the Second Siege of Cawnpore. They then accompanied Colin Campbell's Oude Campaign33.
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== Brigade Complement ==
==== First Detachment ====
Left Calcutta 14 September 1857
==== Historical books on-line ====
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=A7XMfkemThoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Shannon's+brigade+in+India&hl=en&ei=Kvg1TMTTIISpsAayqv3MAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false ''The Shannon's Brigade in India''] by Edmund Hope Verney 1862 (Google Books)
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