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| Name | Bittern (1869) | Explanation | |
| Type | Gunvessel | ||
| Launched | 20 September 1869 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | 663 tons | ||
| Displacement | 805 tons | ||
| Guns | 3 | ||
| Fate | 1887 | ||
| Class | Plover | ||
| Ships book | ADM 135/44 | ||
| Note | |||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 21 May 1871 - 8 June 1874 | Commanded by Commander Prescot William Stephens, Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Sa 26 November 1870 | The following ships in the first class Steam Reserve at Devonport are stored and ready for immediate commission:— The Narcissus, screw frigate, 2,665 tons, 400 horse-power, armed with 24 64-pounders, rifled, and four 7-inch rifled guns; the Aurora, screw frigate, 2,558 tons, 400 horse-power, with same armament; the Cadmus, screw corvette, 1,466 tons, 400 horse-power, armed with 17 64-pounder rifled guns; the Sea Gull and Bittern, twin screw first class gunboats, each 663 tons and 160 horse-power, carrying one 7-inch rifled gun and two 40-pounders; the Research, armour-plated screw sloop, 1,253 tons, 200 horse power, and four 7-inch rifled guns. This ship has been altered and improved since her last commission, and has now been nearly two years in the Reserve, In addition to the above the screw frigate Liverpool, 2,656 tons, 600 horse-power, 30 guns; the Liffey, 2,654 tons, 600 horse-power, 30 guns; the Phoebe, 2,896 tons, 500 horse-power, 30 guns; and the screw corvette Satellite, 1,462 tons, 400 horse-power, 17 guns, lately belonging to the flying squadron, are to be paid off at Devonport, the three frigates on the 29th inst., the corvette on the 1st proximo, and will be placed on the first class Steam Reserve, prepared for a two years' commission. There are also the Iron Duke, double screw armour-plated iron ship, 3,787 tons, 800 horse-power, 14 guns, and the Lord Clyde, armour-plated screw ship, 4,067 tons, 1,000-horse power, 24 guns, whose equipment and stores are complete, and if required for immediate service might be commissioned to-morrow, The Iron Duke is having concrete ballast placed in her cellular bottom; the Lord Clyde is to make a trial trip on Monday next, weather permitting, she will also try her 9-inch 12-ton bow and stern guns, which have just been fitted with turn-tables. Captain the Hon. F.A.C. Foley, of the gunnery ship Cambridge, is ordered to report on them. This list gives a total of 12 ships now at Devonport, their aggregate tonnage being 26,790, the nominal horse power of their engines 5,620, and the number of their guns 228. There are not included in the above list other ships being brought forward for commission, and those which being commissioned, and en route for foreign stations, are under slight repairs. | ||
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