HMS Lee (1860)
HMS Lee (1860)


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NameLee (1860)Explanation
TypeGunvessel   
Launched25 January 1860
HullWooden
PropulsionScrew
Builders measure428 tons
Displacement570 tons
Guns5
Fate1875
ClassPhilomel
Ships book
Note 
Snippets concerning this vessels career
DateEvent
13 March 1862
- 12 March 1863
Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Commander Edwin Charles Symons, west coast of Africa
9 February 1863
- 30 June 1863
Commanded by Acting Commander Philip Ruffle Sharpe, west coast of Africa
1 July 1863
- 21 April 1864
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
- 14 July 1870
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


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