Name | Lee (1860) | Explanation | |
Type | Gunvessel | ||
Launched | 25 January 1860 | ||
Hull | Wooden | ||
Propulsion | Screw | ||
Builders measure | 428 tons | ||
Displacement | 570 tons | ||
Guns | 5 | ||
Fate | 1875 | ||
Class | Philomel | ||
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Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
Date | Event | ||
13 March 1862 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Commander Edwin Charles Symons, west coast of Africa | ||
30 June 1863 | Commanded by Lieutenant Philip Ruffle Sharpe, west coast of Africa, tender to Rattlesnake | ||
2 January 1865 - 2 November 1865 | Commanded by Lieutenant Oliver Thomas Lang, west Coast of Africa, tender to Rattlesnake until he made a fatal fall from the bridge of Lee when coming to anchor off Ascension | ||
4 November 1865 - 14 July 1866 | Commanded (until paying off) by Lieutenant Herbert Holden Edwards, west coast of Africa, tender to Bristol | ||
8 June 1867 | Commanded by Commander Charles William Andrew, West Coast Of Africa | ||
20 June 1870 - 2 September 1871 | Commanded (until paying off at Sheerness) by Commander Charles Sedgwick Fitton, Mediterranean |