Name | Alligator (1821) | Explanation | |
Type | Sixth rate | ||
Launched | 29 March 1821 | ||
Hull | Wooden | ||
Propulsion | Sail | ||
Builders measure | 500 tons | ||
Displacement | |||
Guns | 28 | ||
Fate | 1865 | ||
Class | Atholl | ||
Ships book | |||
Note | 1841 d.s. 1842 troopship. 1846 hospital ship | ||
Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
Date | Event | ||
8 November 1825 - 3 January 1827 | Commanded by Captain Henry Ducie Chads, East Indies | ||
20 November 1828 - 1831 | Commanded by Captain Charles Philip Yorke, Mediterranean | ||
28 September 1831 - 27 August 1835 | Commanded (from commissioning until paying off) by Captain George Robert Lambert, East Indies | ||
12 July 1837 | Commanded by Captain James John Gordon Bremer, Australia (founding the settlement at Port Essington) | ||
(1840) | Commanded by Acting Captain Patrick John Blake, during the first Anglo-Chinese war | ||
5 March 1840 | Commanded by Acting Captain Augustus Leopold Kuper, East Indies (including the first Anglo-Chinese war) | ||
14 January 1841 | Commanded by Commander Samuel Perkins Pritchard, East Indies (including the first Anglo-Chinese war) |