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HMS Grasshopper (1855)
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NameGrasshopperExplanation
TypeGunboat   
Launched8 December 1855
HullWooden
PropulsionScrew
Builders measure232 tons
Displacement 
Guns4
Fate1871
ClassAlbacore
Ships bookADM 135/208
Note 
Snippets concerning this vessels career
DateEvent
February 1856
- 2 July 1856		Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Lieutenant commander William Frederick Lee
27 September 1859Commanded by Lieutenant commander John Collier Tucker, East Indies and China
23 November 1864Commanded by Lieutenant Commander George Digby Morant, China
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