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| Name | Daedalus (1826) | Explanation | |
| Type | Fifth rate | ||
| Launched | 2 May 1826 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 1083 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 46 | ||
| Fate | 1911 | ||
| Class | Modified Leda | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1843 reduced to 20 guns, 1862 RNR drill ship | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| (January 1840) | Out of commission at Sheerness | ||
| 16 October 1844 - 13 October 1848 | Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain Peter McQuhae, East Indies | ||
| 27 July 1849 - 13 September 1853 | Commanded by Captain George Greville Wellesley, Pacific | ||
| 5 June 1861 | Commanded by Commander William Henry Fenwick, Royal Naval Reserve drill ship, Bristol | ||
| 17 July 1864 - 3 February 1866 | Commanded by Commander Edward FieldRoyal Naval Reserve drill ship, Bristol | ||
| 2 March 1869 - 18 April 1870 | Commanded by Commander Albert Henry William Battiscombe, Royal Naval Reserve drill ship, Bristol | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Ma 31 May 1847 | PENANG, April 3. On Monday forenoon the Vernon, 50, Captain Fitzgerald, flag of Rear-Admiral Inglefield, Commander-in-Chief on the East India and China station, and the Acorn, 16, Commander Bingham, were signalled from the Great-hill, coming in to the northward. The Vernon turned the Pulo Tricoose point just at sunset, and saluted the Agincourt, 72, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir T. Cochrane, whose term of service has expired, which the latter returned next morning. On Tuesday morning Admiral Inglefield proceeded to the Government bungalow, on the Great Hill, where Admiral Cochrane is at present residing. The Iris, 26, Captain Munday, is reported to sail for England on Tuesday next.The Vernon, and Dido, 20, Captain Maxwell, were at Penang on the 11 th of April, the latter about proceeding to New Zeeland; the Agincourt, 72, Captain Johnstone, for England; the Daedalus, 20, Captain Quhae, for Hongkong; the Wolf, 18, acting Commander Vansittart, for Lebuan; and the Acorn, 16, Commander Bingham, together with the Hon. Company's steam-sloops Nemesis and Ganges, were in port also at Penang, on the 11th of April. The Vestal, 26, Captain C. Talbot, sailed from China for England on the 4th of March, leaving the Vulture steam-frigate, Captain M'Dougal, senior officer's ship, at Hongkong, until the arrival of Admiral lnglefield, when she will be stationed at Whampoa. The Espiegle, 12, Commander Harris, by the latest advices, was to proceed from Hongkong to Ningpo, after undergoing certain repairs [according to his service record, and his entry in O'Byrnes 1849 'Naval Biographical Dictionary' Thomas Pickering Thompson was in command of this vessel at this time]; the Childers, 16, Commander Pitman, was to proceed to Shanghae; the Ringdove, 16, Commander Clifford, to Amoy; and the Scout, 16, Commander Loring, to Foochowfoo; the last named vessel has captured 39 of the pirates who had been committing so many cruel murders and depredations, the boldness with which they perpetrate which may be judged of from the fact that they do not scruple to openly attack a men of war. The surveying schoonor Young Hebe (ordered to be sold out of Her Majesty's service), whilst at Hongkong under repair and opposite the moorings of the Vestal, 26, was boarded by a pirate boat's crow of nearly 30 men, and was completely gutted. It is said the Scout is to be sent to track the pirates. | ||
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