Name | Grasshopper (1855) | Explanation |
Type | Gunboat |
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Launched | 8 December 1855 |
Hull | Wooden |
Propulsion | Screw |
Builders measure | 232 tons |
Displacement | |
Guns | 4 |
Fate | 1871 |
Class | Albacore |
Ships book | ADM 135/208 |
Note | |
Snippets concerning this vessels career |
Date | Event |
February 1856 - 2 July 1856 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Lieutenant commander William Frederick Lee |
27 September 1859 | Commanded by Lieutenant John Collier Tucker, East Indies and China |
23 November 1864 | Commanded by Lieutenant George Digby Morant, China |