page_title: HMS Hazard (1837)
section_title: Service in the First Māori War in New Zealand
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Hazard (1837) / Service in the First Māori War in New Zealand
caption_attribution_description: English: Pic taken by a friend of Moriori specifically for use in Wikipedia, and is released under GFDL
context_page_description: HMS Hazard was an 18-gun Favorite-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was one of four Favorite-class ship sloops, which were a ship-rigged and lengthened version of the 1796 Cruizer-class brig-sloop. All four ships of the class were ordered on 10 June 1823. She was launched in 1837 from Portsmouth Dockyard.
context_section_description: Hazard, under Acting-Commander Robertson, operated in the Bay of Islands in New Zealand during the Flagstaff War in 1845. Hazard was in the Bay of Islands on 11 March 1845 when a force of about 600 Māori armed with muskets, double-barrelled guns and tomahawks attacked Kororareka (as Russell was then known). Royal Marines and sailors from Hazard took part in the fighting ashore aiding a detachment of the 96th Regt. during the Battle of Kororāreka. The Hazard lost 6 men killed and 8 wounded. Lieutenant George Philpotts ordered the bombardment of Kororāreka. The next morning, all surviving inhabitants of Kororareka sailed for Auckland in the Hazard, the 21-gun United States corvette USS St. Louis, the Government brigantine Victoria and the schooner Dolphin.
  On 30 June 1845 a small naval brigade from both HMS Hazard and HMS North Star supported the 58th Regt. and other colonial forces at the Battle of Ohaeawai. The colonial forces were repulsed by Māori warriors with serious losses including Lieutenant George Phillpotts.
caption: Memorial at "Christ Church" in Russell, for Royal Navy personnel killed during the fighting in 1845.
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