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HMS Dove (1855)
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NameDoveExplanation
TypeGunboat   
Launched24 November 1855
HullWooden
PropulsionScrew
Builders measure232 tons
Displacement 
Guns4
Fate1873
ClassAlbacore
Ships bookADM 135/135
Note 
Snippets concerning this vessels career
DateEvent
January 1856Commanded by Lieutenant commander Frederick Anstruther Herbert
7 October 1856Commanded by Lieutenant commander Charles James Bullock, East Indies and China, tender to Actaeon
(20 November 1858)Commanded by Lieutenant commander Charles James Bullock, East Indies and China (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War)
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