Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Daphne

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Name	Daphne	Explanation
Type	6th rate
Launched	6 August 1838
Hull	Wooden
Propulsion	Sail
Builders measure	726 tons
Displacement
Guns	18
Fate	1864
Class
Ships book
Note
Snippets concerning this vessels career
Date	Event
15 November 1838 - May 1842	Commanded by Captain John Windham Dalling, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840)
23 July 1842 - 26 January 1847	Commanded (until paying off at Chatham) by Captain John James Onslow, Pacific. Upon returning Onslow was court-martialled for failing to "transmit to the commander-in-chief at Portsmouth a statement of all the circumstances of the said ship Daphne having touched the ground on the 31st day of December" (she being ten minutes on the Rocken End shoal, off St Catherine's while beating up the Channel to Spithead). The case was consider proved and Onslow, and the Master, Daniel M'Donnell Jago, were both reprimanded.
26 October 1848 - 1852	Commanded by Captain Edward Gennys Fanshawe, Pacific