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| Name | Firebrand (1842) | Explanation | |
| Type | 2nd class frigate | ||
| Launched | 6 September 1842 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 1190 tons | ||
| Displacement | 1960 tons | ||
| Guns | 4 | ||
| Fate | 1864 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | ADM 135/174 | ||
| Note | Laid down as Belzebub | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 7 September 1844 - 13 December 1844 | Commanded by Captain Armar Lowry Corry, in charge of the 1844 experimental squadron of brigs | ||
| 13 December 1844 - 17 June 1848 | Commanded by Captain James Hope, south-east coast of America, including Anglo-French action in Uruguay | ||
| 6 October 1849 - 30 April 1851 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Owen Knox, Mediterranean (until he died at Malta) | ||
| 18 December 1852 - 8 July 1854 | Commanded by Captain Hyde Parker, Mediterranean (and, 1854, Black Sea during the Russian War, where he was killed) | ||
| 9 July 1854 | Commanded by Captain William Houston Stewart, Black Sea during the Russian War | ||
| 29 July 1854 - 7 July 1855 | Commanded by Captain William Moorsom, Black Sea, Moorsom serving ashore with the Naval Brigade, during the Russian War | ||
| 7 July 1855 - 7 March 1856 | Commanded by Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield, Black Sea during the Russian War | ||
| 7 March 1856 | Commanded by Captain John Welbore Sunderland Spencer, Black Sea | ||
| 27 April 1859 | Commanded by Commander James Minchin Bruce, North America and West Indies | ||
| 14 May 1859 | Commanded (from commissioning at Woolwich) by Commander Joseph Dayman, taking soundings for the cable to Gibraltar | ||
| 27 April 1862 - 9 April 1863 | Commanded (until paying off at Woolwich) by Commander Shute Barrington Piers, Mediterranean | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Th 11 May 1848 | We have intimation of the Firebrand steam-frigate, Captain Hope, being at Rio on the 1st of March, a letter of which date states— "The Inconstant, 36, Captain Shepphard [sic] and the Acheron steam-sloop, Captain Stokes, arrived yesterday. We go to-morrow to the River Plate with Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, and expect to return here at the end of this month en route to England." | ||
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