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| Name | Griffin (launched as Griffon, 1832) | Explanation | |
| Type | Brig-sloop | ||
| Launched | 11 September 1832 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | |||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 10 | ||
| Fate | 1869 | ||
| Class | Cherokee | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1854 h.s. 1857 c.h. 1858 = Griffin | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 2 November 1836 - 1841 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander John Gooch D'Urban, North America & West Indies | ||
| 2 July 1842 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Charles Jenkin, North America and West Indies | ||
| 9 April 1846 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Charles Edward Wilmot, south east coast of America | ||
| 22 November 1846 - 16 April 1850 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Lieutenant James Ptolemy Thurburn, south-east coast of America | ||
| 1858 | Renamed Griffin | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Ma 30 January 1843 | By the last accounts from Bermuda, the Warspite, 50, Captain Lord John Hay, and the Pique, 36, Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford, had not reached that island on the 3d instant. The Spartan, 26, Captain the Hon. C.G.J.B. Elliot, left Havannah for Jamaica on the 21st of December, where it is supposed orders await her to proceed forthwith to Bermuda or England. The following was the distribution of a portion of the West India fleet, according to the latest accounts:—The Fair Rosamond, Pickle, Avon, and Imaum, at Jamaica; the Volage, 26. Captain Sir W. Dickson, at Grenada; the Electra, 18, Commander A. Darley; and the Ringdove, 16, Commander Sir W. Daniell, at Honduras; the Scylla, 16, Commander Sharpe, on her passage from Jamaica to Honduras; the Pilot, 16, Commander W. Houston; the Crocodile, 26, Master-commander Thomas Elson; and the Griffin, 3, Lieutenant-commander Charles Jenkin, at Barbadoes. | ||
| Sa 20 April 1850 | In Harbour. - The Victory, Excellent, Illustrious, Blenheim, Fanny, and Portsmouth tenders, the Echo tug, and the Locust steam-vessel. In Dock. - The St Vincent, Winchester, Fox, Penelope, Rapid, and Electra. In the Basin. - The Niger, Devastation, Fantome, Griffon, and Fairy. In the Steam Basin. - Termagant, Hecate, Victoria and Albert, Bulldog, Blazer, Flamer, Pike, Asp, and Elfin. | ||
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