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| Name | Hermes (1835) | Explanation | |
| Type | Sloop | ||
| Launched | 26 June 1835 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 716 tons | ||
| Displacement | 789 tons | ||
| Guns | 2 | ||
| Fate | 1864 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | ADM 135/228 | ||
| Note | 1842 rebuilt as 830 bm | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 9 November 1835 - 11 January 1838 | Commanded (from commissioning at Woolwich) by Lieutenant William Simpson Blount, Mediterranean mail packet | ||
| 29 May 1838 - 5 October 1840 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander William Simpson Blount, Mediterranean mail packet | ||
| 30 May 1843 - 26 October 1847 | Commanded (until paying off at Chatham) by Lieutenant commander Washington Carr, North America and West Indies | ||
| 7 January 1850 - 10 June 1854 | Commanded by Commander Edmund Gardiner Fishbourne, Cape of Good Hope, then East Indies | ||
| 13 June 1855 | Commanded by Commander Henry Coryton, North America and West Indies | ||
| 21 February 1856 | Commanded by Commander William Everard Alphonso Gordon, Cape of Good Hope | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Th 11 March 1858 | Her Majesty's ship Boscawen, left Simon's Bay on the 3d of January, on a cruise to St. Helena. Ascension, and the West Coast; the Admiral, Sir F. Grey, on board. The Sappho left on the 8th for Australia. The Hermes left for East London, with the Governor, on the 19th. On the 27th Her Majesty's steamer Simoom arrived from Calcutta, and is now the only vessel of war in Simons Bay. | ||
| We 29 December 1858 | The Union Screw Steamship Company's mail packet Norman, Captain Boxer, has arrived. She left Simon’s Bay, Nov. 20; St. Helena, 30th; and Ascension, Dec. 4. ... Her Majesty's ship Boscawen was at Simon's Bay. The steamship Hermes was preparing to leave Table Bay, in search, of the brig Sappho. The Sardinian ship Malabar, with coal, from London for Aden, was wrecked at Table Bay on the 6th of November; crew saved. | ||
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