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| Name | Juno (1844) | Explanation | |
| Type | Sixth rate | ||
| Launched | 1 July 1844 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 923 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 26 | ||
| Fate | 1880 | ||
| Class | Spartan | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1878 = Mariner, police ship. 1878 = Atalanta, t.s. 1880.02.12 foundered in Atlantic | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 3 September 1845 - 14 February 1849 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness until paying off at Sheerness) by Captain Patrick John Blake, Pacific | ||
| 19 October 1853 - 9 December 1857 | Commanded by Captain Stephen Grenville Fremantle, Australia | ||
| 10 January 1878 | Renamed Mariner | ||
| 22 January 1878 | Renamed Juno | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Sa 13 September 1845 | SHEERNESS, Thursday evening. The Juno, new 26, was commissioned on Saturday by Captain Patrick J. Blake. She is to have a complement of 240 men, and will proceed to the East Indies when fitted. | ||
| Sa 25 October 1845 | CHATHAM, Oct. 24. The Juno 26, Captain Patrick J. Blake, sailed this afternoon from Sheerness for Spithead. | ||
| Ma 3 November 1845 | PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 2. The Juno, 26, Captain Patrick Blake, arrived this morning from Sheerness. She brought up at Spithead, and saluted the Commander-in-Chief's flag with 17 guns, which was acknowledged after church time by the Victory for the flagship. | ||
| We 5 November 1845 | PORTSMOUTH, Tuesday. The Juno, 26, Captain Patrick Blake, remains at Spithead, but will sail in a week to place herself under the orders of Rear-Admiral Sir George Seymour, Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific. Vice-Admiral Sir W.H. Gage, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, visited her on Sunday, and inspected the ship; yesterday he also visited the new ships building and fitting, and afterwards left for London. | ||
| We 12 November 1845 | PORTSMOUTH, Tuesday. The Juno, 26, Captain Blake, sailed this morning from Spithead for the Pacific direct, with despatches for Rear-Admiral Sir George Seymour, Commander-in-Chief on that station. | ||
| Ma 5 February 1849 | The Juno, 25, Captain Blake, arrived off St, Katharine’s on Friday night, and anchored off the Knab before dark. Yesterday forenoon she got under way for Spithead, but thick weather and slack tide, together with light flawing winds kept her from. anchoring at Spithead till 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and then only by the aid of the Myrtle steam-tender, which was sent out to her assistance. The Juno sailed from Valparaiso on the 1st of November, and Rio on the 14th of December. When she left the former station, the Asia, 84, Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby, C.B., was at anchor there, about to sail on the 2d of December on a short cruise. The Constance, 50, Captain Courtenay, was on the coast of Mexico, expected at Valparaiso in February with a large freight. Mr. George Marsh, her Second Master, is appointed Acting Master to the Gorgon steam-frigate, vice Pointer, invalided home in the Juno. The Calypso, 20, Captain Worth, sailed on the 31st of October for the coast of Mexico to collect freight; she is expected at Valparaiso about April. The Champion, 14, Commander Hayes, sailed on the 4th of October for Callao and the coast of Mexico. The Gorgon, 6, steam-frigate, Commander Paynter, was refitting at Valparaiso. Lieutenant Tufnel, of the Juno, has exchanged with Lieutenant Marcus Lowther, of the Gorgon. Mr. Forster, the Master of the Gorgon, has invalided in the Juno in consequence of having been frost-bitten while in charge of Her Majesty’s Yacht Fairy last January, the extreme cold experienced in the Straits of Magellan when he was navigating the Gorgon from the Rivet Plate to Valparaiso having caused a relapse. The Cockatrice schooner, Master Commander Rundle, tender to the flag-ship Asia, was on the coast of Mexico. The Nereus storeship was at Valparaiso, and the Naiad at Callao. Mr. Cutijar, Acting Master of the Juno, has been superseded by Mr. Jameson, Second Master of the Asia, the former taking Mr. Jameson's place in the flag-ship. The squadron on the south-east coast of America was distributed thus when the Juno left Rio:— The Raleigh, 50, Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.B.; the Inconstant, 36, Captain Sheppard; the Tweed, 18, Commander Lord F. Russell; the Alecto, 6, steam-sloop. Commander Massingberd; the Lizard iron steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Hollinworth; and the Harpy ditto, Lieutenant Commander Tomlinson, were at Monte Video. The Grecian, 16, Commander Tindal, was cruising. The Griffon, 3, Lieutenant Commander Thurburn, and the Spider, 3, Lieutenant-Commander Haydon, were at Monte Video. The Hydra, 6, steam sloop, Commander Skipwith the Crescent, receiving-ship, Lieutenant Meheux; the Linnet and Kestrel, packets, were at Rio. The Juno spoke on the passage home the Marian and Antigua, from the Clyde, in lat. 27 36 N., long. 32 39 W., on the 16th of January. She brought a very small freight on merchants' account, amounting to 86,000 dollars only, in specie, bars of gold, and silver, which was transshipped by Master-Commander Balliston into the Myrtle steam-tender, outside the Knab, brought into harbour, and landed at the dockyard for conveyance to the Bank of England by Messrs. E. and E. Emanuel, of this port. After discharging the freight the Juno weighed at 3 o'clock p.m., and proceeded to Sheerness (where she was fitted out) to be paid off. She has been three years and six months in commission, and has sailed over 70,000 miles. The only gun-room officers who went out in the ship and have returned in her are — First-Lieutenant Turnour, Lieutenant Grierson, and Surgeon James Allan (b), M.D. Mr. Strode, who went out a Mate has returned a Lieutenant. | ||
| Th 8 February 1849 | WOOLWICH, Feb. 7. The Rhadamanthus steam vessel, Master-Commander J. Ayling, towed the Juno, 26 guns, Captain P. Blake, up to Chatham yesterday, to be paid off on her return from the Pacific. The Rhadamanthus was ordered to Woolwich to be paid off and re-commissioned at this port, and she arrived to-day. | ||
| Sa 10 February 1849 | CHATHAM, Feb. 9. ...The Juno, 26 guns. Captain P. Blake, which arrived here on the 6th inst., is unshipping her stores for the dockyard, and will be paid off on Tuesday next without any of her bulkheads or other internal fittings being removed. | ||
| Ma 11 June 1855 | The Calliope, 26, Captain Fitzgerald, which arrived at Plymouth on Friday, left England on the 2d of March, 1851, and reached Sydney on the 20th of July. She then entered upon a service of civilization, by visiting, with one or two exceptions, every port in the islands of New Zealand, and, after calling at Hobart Town, performed the next year a similar duty among the Feejee Isles, including the penal settlement of Norfolk Island, and then returned to Sydney. Captain Sir Everard Home, who put her in commission, and whose loss was felt by all hands, died November 3,1853, from a complaint which was increased by devotion to his profession. While in Australia the Calliope lost several of her crew, who were replaced in the colony, but from her detachment of Marines, commanded by Lieutenant Leslie, only one deserted. This frigate's passage from Australia to Cape Horn presents some remarkable features, especially at the present moment, when a knowledge of the shortest and most free route is so valuable. She left Melbourne February 27, and was off Cape Horn March 30. Her commander endeavoured to preserve the parallel of 50 degrees S. Hail fell on the 24th of March, in lat. 51 6, long. 98 14 W.; hail and snow on the 28th, in lat. 55, long. 76. Off the Horn they were in 50 S. In this passage they experienced no check; strong breezes prevailed occasionally, but no inconvenience from sea or wind, and there would have been no difficulty in heaving to, if necessary, at anytime. Excepting four days, an observation was taken regularly. Winds chiefly from the westward, varying from S.W. to N.N.W.; force, 7 to 8; and four days only reached 10 or 11 weather generally overcast and cloudy. The lowest latitude, 56 10 S., was made on the evening of the 28th of March. Lowest thermometer, 31°, was felt after passing the Horn, and when near the Falkland Islands, lieutenant D'Arcy, of the surveying vessel Herald, 8. Captain Denham, on promotion, and Mr. Chevalier, from Rio Janeiro, came home passengers in the Calliope. Her freight from Melbourne is 7,500 oz. of gold, and not 70,500 oz., as telegraphed on Friday. The frigate Juno, 26, Captain S.G. Fremantle, arrived at Sydney on the 30th of January, and, in consequence of the appearance of smallpox, was put under quarantine, but relieved again previous to the departure of the Calliope, on the 7th of February. The sloop Fantome, 12, Commander John H. Gennys, left Melbourne on the 22d of February for New Zealand. The Calliope has been towed up Hamoaze, where she is to be dismantled and put out of commission. Her crew will be paid down and transferred to the Sanspareil and other ships. | ||
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