China War of 1856-58

[Kuba]

Hi, I'm translating a biographical note about Samuel Beal and I'm stuck
with word "Sybile". The text goes:

"After some time had passed, he became a chaplain in the Royal Navy. He
was on the Sybile during the China War of 1856-58."

The word "Sybile" is italic. Do you know what the Sybile is? Is it a
ship maybe?

Regards,
Kuba

[Stephen Graham]

It's presumably a ship of the Royal Navy. Standard convention is to
italicize ship names in written material.

[Eric Stevens]

You will find that Sybile was a 44 gun Frigate.

Eric Stevens

[Mark Brader]

Kuba:

> > "After some time had passed, he became a chaplain in the Royal Navy. He
> > was on the Sybile during the China War of 1856-58."
> >
> > The word "Sybile" is italic. Do you know what the Sybile is? Is it a
> > ship maybe?

Stephen Graham:

> It's presumably a ship of the Royal Navy.

Specifically, it's presumably this ship:

http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=2150

Note the spelling with two L's, used here and in a few other mentions
on the Web. There were other ships of the same name before and after
this one, also spelled with two L's.
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[Steve Hayes]

That would seem the most probable meaning.

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[Kuba]

Stephen Graham pisze:

Thank you.