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| Name | Jasper (1857) | Explanation | |
| Type | Gunboat | ||
| Launched | 16 March 1857 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | 301 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 3 | ||
| Fate | 1862 | ||
| Class | Algerine | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | Sold to Emperor of China as Amoy | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 28 July 1857 - 3 May 1861 | Commanded by Lieutenant William Henry Pym, North America and West Indies | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Ma 28 May 1860 | At Greytown was Her Majesty's ship Gladiator, the Hydra at St. Vincents, the Valorous at Vera Cruz, the Jasper at Tampico, the Racer at Havannah, the Cossack and Styx at Bermuda. Her Majesty's ship Emerald, with Admiral Milne, had left Colon for Greytown and Bermuda. | ||
| We 1 May 1861 | The Jasper, 1, screw gunboat, Lieut.-Commander Pym, dismantling in the old fitting basin at Portsmouth, is expected to pay off on Friday or Saturday. She was commissioned by Lieut. Pym on the 28th of July, 1857, and has been exceedingly healthy during her service since that time on the North America and West India Station, having lost only two of her crew — one dying from old age, and the other being accidentally drowned. She has taken one prize, a Spanish ship-rigged vessel, on the 22d of March off Havannah, without name, papers, or slaves, but with 2,260 doubloons on board for the purchase of the latter commodity. At the moment of making the capture Her Majesty's steamer Styx hove in sight, and of course became entitled to share, cutting down the Jasper's prize-money considerably. | ||
| We 24 July 1861 | PRIZE MONEY. The distribution of the proceeds of the cargo of the ship, name unknown, or Marianne, captured on March 22, 1858, by Her Majesty's ships Styx and Jasper, will commence on Monday, the 29th of July, 1861; that of the proceeds received and tonnage bounty awarded for the brig, name unknown, captured on the 24th of December, 1859, by Her Majesty's ship Triton, will commence on Monday, the 29th of July, 1861; and that of the amount awarded for salvage services rendered to the brig Nina, between the 10th and 14th of February, 1860, by Her Majesty's ship Curaçoa, will commence on Monday, the 29th of July, 1861, all in the Prize Branch of the Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-house. Persons Legally entitled to claim the share of any captor are requested to present the same at the department of the Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-house. | ||
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