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'''HCS ''Mahi''''' (or '''''Mahé''''') was a schooner that the [[Bombay Dockyard]] launched in 1834 for the British [[East India Company]] (EIC).{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=334}}

''Mahi'' participated in the 1839 [[Aden Expedition]] along with the frigate {{HMS|Volage|1825|6}}, the sloop [[HCS Coote (1827)|HCS ''Coote'']], and the brig {{HMS|Cruizer|1828|6}}.<ref>Clowes, pg. 277-279.</ref> The British attack began on 19 February and ''Mahé'', under the command of Lieutenant Daniels, provided fire support. She sustained the only naval casualty of the expedition when Midshipman Nesbitt sustained a wound.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=26 March 1839| issue=19719|pages=669–671}}</ref>

On 7 April 1855 ''Mahi'', Lieutenant W.S. King, IN, commanding, delivered to [[Berbera]] Sir [[Richard F. Burton]] and his expedition to discover the source of the Nile. An attack by Somali warriors outside Berbera wounded Burton, killed one of the British officers on the expedition, and forced the cancellation of the expedition.{{sfnp|Burton|1856|pp=449–458}} (King died at sea on 24 November 1855.)

On 27 June 1856 ''Mahi'', Lieutenant Walker, commanding, was at Massawa, investigating the slave trade across the Red Sea to Jeddah, Hodeida, etc.

On 13 January 1857 ''Mahi'' took a party of sappers and miners to [[Perim]] to establish a British military outpost there. The move was to forestall the French navy brig ''Nissus'' from claiming the island for France.

==Fate==
After her release from official service, ''Mahé'' became a country ship trading on the Malabar Coast. She was still trading in 1870.{{sfnp|Low|1877|p=572}}

==Note==
[[Charles Rathbone Low]], the author of the history in the references below, was a midshipman on ''Mahi'' in 1855.{{sfnp|Low |1877|p=582}}

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*{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/firstfootstepsi00burtgoog|title=First Footsteps in East Africa|last=Burton|first=Richard|publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans|year=1856|edition=1st|pages=[https://archive.org/details/firstfootstepsi00burtgoog/page/n511 449]–458}}
*  Clowes, William (1901). ''The Royal Navy: A history from the earlierst times to the present Volume VI''. London, England: William Clowes & Sons
* {{cite book |last1=Hackman |first1=Rowan |year=2001 |title=Ships of the East India Company |location=Gravesend, Kent |publisher=World Ship Society |isbn=0-905617-96-7}}
* {{Cite book|url=|title=History of the Indian Navy: (1613-1863)|last=Low|first=Charles Rathbone|date=1877|publisher=R. Bentley and son|language=en}}

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