HMS Eclipse (1860)
HMS Eclipse (1860)


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NameEclipse (1860)Explanation
TypeGunvessel   
Launched18 September 1860
HullWooden
PropulsionScrew
Builders measure700 tons
Displacement877 tons
Guns4
Fate1867
ClassCormorant
Ships bookADM 135/146
Note 
Snippets concerning this vessels career
DateEvent
24 September 1862Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Commander Richard Charles Mayne, Australia (during the New Zealand War)
26 February 1864
- 9 February 1867
Commanded by Commander Hon. Edmund Robert Fremantle, Australia
Extracts from the Times newspaper
DateExtract
Tu 24 January 1865The ships of war on the Australian station at the date of the last advices were — the Harrier, 17, Acting-Commander Swan, at New Zealand; the Miranda, 14, Capt. Jenkins, at Sydney; the Eclipse, 4, Commander Fremantle, at New Zealand; the Curacoa, 23, Commodore Sir W. Wiseman, at New Zealand; the Esk, 21, Capt. Luice, at Sydney; the Falcon, 17, Commander Parkin, at New Zealand; and the Salamander, 4, Commander the Hon. J. Carnegie, at Sydney.


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