HCS Research (1823)
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HCS Research (1823)
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HCS Research was a ship that the British East India Company (EIC) had built for it in 1823 at Fort Gloster (Calcutta) to serve as a survey ship. She is most famous for her 1827 voyage under the command of Captain Peter Dillon that discovered the fate of Count Lapérouse's expedition and its ships Boussole and Astrolabe. During the period 1824-26, the Burmese War diverted Research from her surveying duties. She received ten guns and Captain John Crawford, together with Messrs. C. B. Richardson and
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