outbreak of the First Opium War "was considered an extremely favourable opportunity for testing the advantages or otherwise of iron steam-vessels." She first saw action in the Second Battle of Chuenpi on 7January 1841 against the Chinese fleet at the Bocca Tigris forts. In the Battle of First Bar (27 February), Nemesis sank Cambridge, an old, but re-armed East Indiaman that the Chinese had purchased. Due to Nemesiss shallow draught, Nemesis was able to move through shallow water during the Broadway expedition on 13–15 March and aided in the capture of Canton on 18 March. Based in Chusan, she also saw action at Taisam in February 1842, in a successful skirmish associated with repulse of a much larger Chinese attack on Ningbo. Later career After the First Opium War, Nemesis was tasked with the suppression of pirates near Indonesia and the Philippines. She then operated from Bombay, chiefly to Karachi. Around the end of 1846 as a result of mob rioting in Canton which had started in July, she was posted by Sir John Davis to cover the East India Company's factory there. She was then withdrawn before February 1847, despite protests from traders. In May 1847 she attacked a flotilla of Sooloo pirate prows in the Brunei river, Borneo. In early 1853, she helped the company's steamer Zenobia expel Burmese troops from Bassein province. She sailed from Shanghai on 1 February 1854, bound for Belfast. Laird Brothers displayed a model of the H.E.I.C. "Nemesis" (1839) at the 1893 Chicago Exhibition. References Notes External links The Nemesis – Great Britain's Secret Weapon in the Opium Wars, 1839–60 Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis from 1840 to 1843 by W. D. Bernard at Project Gutenberg 1839 ships First Opium War ships of the United Kingdom Ships built on the River Mersey Ships of the British East India Company