HMS Dasher

HMS Dasher (1837)

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Name	Dasher (1837)	Explanation
Type	Packet
Launched	5 December 1837
Hull	Wooden
Propulsion	Paddle
Builders measure	357 tons
Displacement
Guns	1
Fate	1885
Class
Ships book	ADM 135/121
Note
Snippets concerning this vessels career
Date	Event
27 July 1838	Commanded by Lieutenant commander John Bettinson Cragg, North America
(January 1840)	In commission at Weymouth
1 August 1845	Commanded by Commander William Louis Sheringham, Home station
20 October 1847	Commanded by Lieutenant commander Abraham Parks, Sheerness
5 July 1851	Commanded by Commander Nicholas Lefebvre, Portsmouth
31 December 1853 - 12 December 1856	Commanded by Captain Nicholas Lefebvre, Channel islands (fishery protection), tender to Victory
28 February 1854 - 18 November 1855	Commanded by Lieutenant Richard Henry Dalton, Portsmouth, tender to Victory
12 December 1856	Commanded by Commander Edward George Hore, Portsmouth
2 January 1860	Commanded by Commander Philip De Saumarez, Portsmouth
23 February 1877	Commanded by Commander Adolphus Agustus Frederick Fitzgeorge, Channel islands
*Extracts from the Times* newspaper**
Date	Extract
Th 8 August 1878	The following Information has been officially notified:— "The inspection of the Fleet by Her Majesty the Queen on Tuesday, the 13th inst., will take place about 4 p.m., at Spithead. There will be no general issue of tickets as only a very limited number of vessels can be set apart for the conveyance of official visitors. Naval officers on half-pay and military officers of the Portsmouth garrison will be accommodated on board Her Majesty's ships Valorous and Dasher respectively, and should apply at the Commander-in-Chief's office at Portsmouth Dockyard." The special service fleet of masted ironclad turret ships and gunboats, under the command of Admiral Sir Cooper Key and Rear-Admiral Boys, numbering 19 sail all told, arrived yesterday afternoon at Spithead, where they will be reviewed on Tuesday next by the Queen. After leaving Portland Admiral Boys hoisted his flag on board the Thunderer and took command of the turret ships. The fleet forming into columns of sub-divisions, line abreast, each column of masted ships having a column of monitors on its starboard beam. In this order the fleet proceeded up Channel at a speed of five knots. On rounding Culver Cliff previous to entering the Solent the formation was altered to columns of division line ahead, the weather line being headed by the Hercules, flagship of Admiral Key, followed by the Valiant, Hector, Lord Warden, Warrior, Penelope, Resistance, and Boadicea. The starboard line, consisting of the turret-ships, was formed as follows:— Thunderer (bearing the flagship of the Rear-Admiral), Belleisle, Gorgon, Hydra, Hecate, Glatton, Cyclops, and Prince Albert, the rear being composed of the gunboats Tay, Tees, and Blazer. In this order the ships steamed towards Gilkicker Point, when the helms of both lines were put hard over, the frigates turning outwards to the Isle of Wight and the monitors outwards to Portsmouth and Southsea, and steamed back to the Noman and anchored in the same relative positions in line in readiness for the review. The Valorous, paddle steamer. Has been appropriated for the accommodation of naval half-pay officers.
Th 8 August 1878	The following information has been officially notified, "The inspection of the Fleet by Her Majesty the Queen on Tuesday, the 13th inst., will take place about 4 p.m., at Spithead. There will be no general issue of tickets, as only a very limited number of vessels can be set apart for the conveyance of official visitors. Naval officers on half-pay and military officers of the Portsmouth garrison will be accommodated on board Her Majesty's ships Valorous and Dasher respectively, and should apply at the Commander-in-Chief's office at Portsmouth Dockyard."

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