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| Name | Growler (1841) | Explanation | |
| Type | 1st class sloop | ||
| Launched | 20 July 1841 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 1054 tons | ||
| Displacement | 1379 tons | ||
| Guns | 6 | ||
| Fate | 1854 | ||
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| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 7 December 1841 - November 1845 | Commanded by Commander Claude Henry Mason Buckle, South America and west coast of Africa (in February 1845 participated in Commodore William Jones's destruction of several barracoons at Dombocorro and elsewhere) | ||
| 7 April 1847 - 1 December 1847 | Commanded by Commander John Moon Potbury, conveying free labourers from the coast of Africa to the West Indies (until he died of 'coast fever') | ||
| 29 December 1847 - 22 March 1848 | Commanded by Acting Commander William King Hall, returning from the West Indies | ||
| 4 July 1849 - 25 September 1852 | Commanded by Commander James Stoddart, Mediterranean | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| 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. | ||
| Tu 29 February 1848 | The circumstance of the long quarantine under which it was deemed necessary to place Her Majesty's steam sloop Growler at Bermuda, as reported in The Times of Saturday, has excited some attention here. This steamer was last year sent out by the Lords of the Admiralty to make experimental trips for the purpose of testing the practicability of conveying free labourers by steam from the coast of Africa to the West Indies. The undertaking was considered at the time to be one of great danger to those engaged in it, and requiring an officer of some energy to conduct it, For that purpose the Admiralty selected Commander Potbury, a skilful seaman, who, unfortunately, last fall, died of the coast fever. It appears that his successor, Commander Hall, has had a very dangerous attack of the same disorder, and was slowly recovering when the Persian left on the 8th instant. The Growler will shortly come home, when, in all probability, her crew will undergo a second quarantine. It is rather improbable, with such fatal experience, that their Lordships will send her a second time on such a dangerous expedition. | ||
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