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| Name | Geyser (1841) | Explanation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type | 1st class sloop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Launched | 6 April 1841 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hull | Wooden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Builders measure | 1055 tons | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Displacement | 1379 tons | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Guns | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fate | 1866 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ships book | ADM 135/192 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 13 December 1841 - 26 November 1845 | Commanded by Commander Edward John Carpenter, Mediterranean | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 28 October 1846 - 17 July 1850 | Commanded by Commander Francis Thomas Brown, Cape of Good Hope | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 October 1850 - 5 December 1851 | Commanded by Commander Edward Tatham, south east coast of America | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 May 1852 - 10 September 1852 | Commanded by Commander George Sumner Hand, coast of Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 September 1852 - 17 June 1853 | Commanded by Commander Thomas Wilson, North America and West Indies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 December 1854 - 18 January 1856 | Commanded by Commander Roderick Dew, the Baltic during the Russian War | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 January 1856 - 29 June 1857 | Commanded by Commander Arthur Tower, Cape of Good Hope | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 July 1857 - 6 January 1858 | Commanded by Commander Edward Roche Power, Cape of Good Hope | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 June 1860 - 15 April 1862 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Commander George Melville Jackson, Channel squadron | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 April 1862 - 25 March 1863 | Commanded by Commander Colin Andrew Campbell, Channel squadron | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 April 1863 - 23 February 1864 | Commanded by Commander Mark Robert Pechell, Channel squadron | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 24 February 1864 - 1 June 1865 | Commanded by Commander Arthur Thomas Thrupp, Portsmouth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fr 4 February 1842 | The Rapid, 10, Lieutenant-Commander E.C. Earle, went out of harbour yesterday afternoon. She has her full complement of men, and will be paid in advance to-morrow, previous to her sailing for the coast of Africa, where she is to be stationed. It is understood that she will touch at Plymouth. Several officers are going out in her as passengers, to join the various ships on the station to which they have been recently appointed. The Hastings, 74, Captain J. Lawrence, C.B., was paid off yesterday. Many of her hands have volunteered into the Queen and other ships fitting out here. The Warspite, 50, Captain the Right Hon. Lord John Hay, C.B., after proceeding to New York with Lord Ashburton, will join the squadron stationed at the West Indies and North America, under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adams, K.C.B. It is expected that Lord Ashburton and suite will embark on Monday or Tuesday next, and that the Warspite will sail on the same or the following day. The Queen, 110, Captain G.F. Rich, is now quite ready for sea, with the exception of not having yet completed her complement of men. These, however, she is now procuring very fast. She obtained yesterday a number of volunteers from the Hastings when that ship was paid off, and she is continually receiving men who have been brought from various seaports in the kingdom to join her. 22 volunteers for her are expected daily from Bristol, under the charge of Mr Molesworth, on board the Mercury cutter, which was disabled in the Bristol Channel during the late severe gales. Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Owen will re-hoist his flag on board of her in a few days. She will be at least three weeks before she leaves for the Mediterranean. The Vindictive, 50, Captain J. Toup Nicholas, has had all her masts, guns and stores, taken out, and was docked yesterday morning. The shipwrights are at work upon her, and she is to be got ready for sea again with all possible despatch. The Geyser, Commander E.J. Carpenter, and the Growler, Commander C.H.M. Buckle, steam-frigates, will come round here from the eastward to complete their stores and complement of men, preparatory to proceeding to a foreign station. The Alfred, 50, Commodore J.B. Purvis, is expected daily from Sheerness. She is the same class vessel as the Vindictive, Several of the Hastings' ship’s company have volunteered into her, and will join her when she comes round to Spithead. The President, 50, Captain Broughton, is expected home from the South American station every day, the Dublin, 50, Captain T. Tucker, having arrived there some months since to relieve her. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fr 30 June 1848 | Cape of Good Hope, April 21. The President, 50, Captain Stanley, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Dacres, the Commander-in-Chief, sailed from Simon's-bay on the 15th for the Mauritius, taking the Rosamond steam sloop, Commander Foote, with him part of the way. The Rosamond was to go to Mozambique with despatches, and then on to the Mauritius to meet the Admiral there. The Geyser steam sloop, Commander Brown, left this on the 18th, calling off Buffalo River to land Colonel Hare, and then goes on to the Mauritius to join the Admiral; and then they all go to Tamatave to make a treaty with the Queen of Madagascar. The Brilliant, 26, Captain Watson, left this about a month since for the Mauritius, and remains there until the Admiral's arrival, and then she would go to Tamatave with him. The Eurydice, 26, Captain Anson, is to come here to refit; and the Nimrod, Commander Belgrave, on the Eurydice's arrival, will take the Bishop of the Cape to St. Helena on a visit. The Admiral still feels the loss of his son most acutely. The Mariner, 12, Commander Mathison, arrived here on the 15th, the day the Admiral left; she was 17 days from Rio, and left at anchor there the Maeander, 44, Captain the Hon. H. Keppel; the Inconstant, 36, Captain Shepphard [sic]; the Acheron steam surveying ship, Captain J.L. Stokes; and the Hydra steam sloop, Commander Skipwith; — all from England. The Maeander and Acheron are expected here hourly, as they were to leave three days after the Mariner, which has been here nearly a week. The latter leaves this on the 25th for India. All is quiet and going on prosperously in the colony. They have had a severe hurricane at the Mauritius; the damage done is considerable. The Fox, 42, Commodore Sir Henry Blackwood, is expected here every day from India, homeward bound; also the Albatross, 14, Commander Farquhar, from the coast of Africa, en route to India. The Devastation steam sloop, Commander Michell, is also daily expected here from the coast for service on this station. The Seringapatam store ship, Master Commanding Russell, is in Simon's-bay. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ma 26 March 1855 | The fleet at Portsmonth yesterday consisted of the
The Hastings, 60, Captain Caffin, got up her steam again on Saturday, and proceeded out of harbour to test her engines, returning aftre the trial. The Pembroke, 60, Captain Seymour, also got up steam for a similar test, bul did not go out. The Hogue, 60, Captain Ramsay, steamed out of harbour, and joined the fleet, which has been supplied with an enormous quantity of Congreve rockets for boat service, and shot, shell, and powder, at the discretion of each Captain, and not regulated by any before regulated "establishment." Saturday, the 7th proximo, is the day rumoured as that of the departure of this fleet for the Baltic. The Driver, 6, steam sloop left Spithead on Friday night with supernumeraries for the squadron in the Downs, and returned to Spithead yesterday. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fr 6 April 1855 | The ships left at Spithead after the departure of the main body of the Baltic expedition shifted berths yesterday under sail, and formed two lines, as ordered, thus:—
The Geyser, 6, paddle, was ordered to take officers and men for the Baltic fleet in the Downs, and left last evening. The Driver, 6, paddle, will leave Spithead to-morrow, and will then also take supernumeraries to join the larger ships. The Falcon returned to Spithead on Wednesday night from the Channel. Rear-Admiral Baynes remains at Portsmouth to take out the third division; but his flagship, the Retribution, will not be out of the hands of the engineer department until the 10th, and then the shipwrights will not have done with her. She remains in the steam basin, with Admiral Baynes's flag at her mizen, and is being proceeded with as fast as possible. The Odin, 16, paddle frigate, is also in the steam basin, having new covers to her cylinders fitted, her old ones not being strong enough to contain the pressure of the additional power of steam generated by her new boilers; she will be refitted in this respect by the 10th. The Ruby, Pelter, and Grinder gunboats are all in the hands of the dockyard artificers; the latter, which came up from Cowes on Monday from the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Robert White, is in dock, being fitted out for the fleet. The Pelter is having moveable iron plates of a quarter of an inch thickness fitted on to the gunwale, and projecting above the bulwarks about 18 inches, for, the protection of her crew from rifle bullets from without, when in close proximity with the enemy, and also the better to enable those onboard to shield themselves while at rifle firing themselves. This vessel needed some new tubes for her boilers, but those sent to replace the defective ones are said to be four inches too short for her! The Hastings, 60, new screw blockship, went out of harbour yesterday again to make a trial of her steaming properties at the measured mile. She went out with most of her weights on board, and drawing 22 feet. The mean of four runs showed an average speed realized of 6·7 knots — a result far beyond the most sanguine expectations of the scientific on board and ashore; revolution of engines, 78; and pressure of steam in the boilers, 55lb. The inexperience of the stokers alone prevented a better mean speed being realized, and there is little doubt that greater speed will be ultimately obtained. She victuals now 279 out of her intended complement of 600. The Ruby gunboat was undocked yesterday. The Bellerophon, 78, landed her invalids yesterday morning at the dockyard jetty, and they were conveyed to the invalid depôt by railway. The ship is now returning stores, preparatory to being put out of commission. Her officers will be paid off, but the crew will be paid down, and after a fortnight’s leave draughted for service in the Baltic. None of her bulkheads or internal fittings are to be removed. We learn by electric telegraph from Deal that the Baltic fleet at anchor in the Downs yesterday comprised the following vessels:—The Duke of Wellington, 131, Royal George, 101, Nile, 91, James Watt, 91, Caesar, 91, Exmouth, 91, Majestic, 81, Cressy, 81, Colossus, 81, Hogue, 60, Blenheim, 60, Edinburgh. 60, Vulture, 6, Dragon, 6, Gorgon, 6, Basilisk, 6, Bulldog. 6. The Ajax, 60, was coming in. The weather being very fine visitors were flocking in to Deal by every train. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Th 24 December 1857 | Her Majesty’s steam-sloop Geyser, 6, Commander E. Power, arrived at Spithead in the night of Tuesday, from the Cape of Good Hope station, having been ordered home by the Commander-in-Chief in consequence of defective boilers. She left Simon’s Bay on the 1st of November, called at St. Helena on the 12th, at Ascension on the 18th, Sierra Leone on the 27th, and St. Vincent’s on the 5th inst. The transport Viscount Canning, with a troop of Horse Artillery for India, was at Ascension and sailed the day of the Geyser’s arrival. At St. Vincent’s was the transport Indomitable, with troops for India, when the Geyser left. On the 1st inst,, in lat. 13 33 N,, long. 20 12 W., she communicated with the English bark Cornwallis, bound for the Cape and India, all well. The Geyser brought home one passenger, Mr. G. Thompson, of the firm of Borradaile, Thompson, and Co., and 29 invalids. She has been upwards of three years in commission, and during that time has seen much service. She formed one of the Baltic Fleet in 1855, and in company with Her Majesty’s ship Archer took 13 ships in the Gulf of Riga, which she towed home. She immediately returned to the Baltic, where she was actively employed during the remainder of the season, and was present at the bombardment of Sweaborg. During the following winter she was employed on the coast of England, and on the 16th of July, 1856, sailed for the Cape station, where she has since been employed chiefly in the conveyance of troops to the frontier, and latterly cruising in the Mozambique Channel. She left in Simon’s Bay Her Majesty’s ship Boscawen, 70, Captain Glanville, flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir F.W. Grey, K.C.B.; the Hermes, 6, paddle sloop, Commander Gordon, and the Trident, 6, paddle sloop, Commander Francis A. Close. Her Majesty’s ships Castor, 36, Lieutenant Wood in command (pro tem.), and the Megaera, 6, iron screw troopship, Commander Purvis, sailed the same day as the Geyser, the former for the Mozambique Channel, and the latter with horses for India. In Table Bay the European and American Steam Navigation Company’s ship Queen of the South, with the 66th Regiment on board, was coaling on her way to India. The Dane, the first of the new contract mail steamers, arrived on the 29th of October, and had made a most satisfactory passage. The Geyser will sail this morning for Plymouth, to be paid off. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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