Name | Vernon | Explanation |
Type | 4th rate |
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Launched | 1 May 1832 |
Hull | Wooden |
Propulsion | Sail |
Builders measure | 1832 tons |
Displacement | 2388 tons |
Guns | 50 |
Fate | 1923 |
Class | |
Ships book | |
Note | 1876 torpedo school. 1886 = Actaeon |
Snippets concerning this vessels career |
Date | Event |
1832 - 1832 | Commanded by Captain Francis Augustus Collier, particular service |
(January 1840) | Out of commission at Sheerness |
30 October 1840 - 22 May 1844 | Commanded (until paying off at Sheerness) by Captain William Walpole, Mediterranean, then (April 1884) troop transport to Queenstown |
20 March 1845 | Commanded by Captain John Coghlan Fitzgerald, flagship of Rear-Admiral Samuel Hood Inglefield, South-east coast of America and East India stations |
May 1876 | Commanded by Captain William Arthur, torpedo school, Portmouth |