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| Name | Racer (1857) | Explanation | |
| Type | Sloop | ||
| Launched | 4 November 1857 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 151 feet |
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | 579 tons | ||
| Displacement | 868 tons | ||
| Guns | 11 | ||
| Fate | 1876 | Last in commission | 1868 |
| Class | Class (as screw) | Racer | |
| Ships book | ADM 135/381 | ||
| Career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 4 November 1857 | Launched at Deptford Dockyard. | ||
| 3 June 1858 - 4 July 1860 | Commanded (from commissioning at Woolwich) by Commander Thomas Alexander Pakenham, Mediterranean, then (February 1859) North America and West Indies | ||
| 15 May 1860 - 9 December 1862 | Commanded (until paying off at Woolwich) by Commander Algernon McLennan Lyons, North America and West Indies | ||
| 22 June 1864 - 27 May 1865 | Commanded (from commissioning at Woolwich) by Commander Isaac Newton Thomas Saulez, Mediterranean | ||
| 27 May 1865 - 17 June 1868 | Commanded (until paying off at Woolwich) by Commander Lindesay Brine, Mediterranean | ||
| 24 April 1873 | Paid off. | ||
| 1876 | Broken up at Portsmouth. | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Ma 14 May 1860 | Her Majesty's ships Gorgon, Icarus, Imaum, and Cossack were at Jamaica, the latter about to proceed to Bermuda. The Emerald, Captain A. Cumming, arrived from Antigua on the 13th of April, with Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, K.C.B., and sailed again on the 21st for Colon. The Racer left Jamaica on the 24th for Havannah. Her Majesty's ship Hydra arrived at Trinidad on the 24th of April, with the Bishop of Barbadoes on board. The Styx was about to proceed to Barbadoes. At Greytown, Her Majesty's ship Gladiator. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Th 14 February 1861 | At Jamaica were Her Majesty's steamers Imaum, Mersey, and Kingston. At Antigua Her Majesty's ship Nile, with the Admiral, Styx and Skipjack gunboats. At Santa Martha, Her Majesty's ship Cadmus; at Panama, Her Majesty's ship Mutine, and an American frigate-corvette. Her Majesty's ship Racer sailed from Greytown for Jamaica. | ||
| Ma 18 March 1861 | Her Majesty's ship St. George, Captain the Hon. Francis Egerton, arrived in Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, on the 21st of February, and the Barracouta, Commander Wood, on the 21th. The Nile, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral A. Milne, Commander-in-Chief, and the Styx, were at Barbadoes on the 26th. At Port Royal, Jamaica, were Her Majesty's ships Imaum, Commodore Dunlop, Hydra, Cadmus, Skipjack, and Kingston. Her Majesty's ship Racer was at St. Domingo, and the brig Mutine at Panama. Her Majesty's ship Bacchante, bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Sir T. Maitland, was to leave Tobago on the 23d or 24th of February for Vancouver's Island. The Pylades was at Tobago refitting to leave for England, and the Termagant was to sail in a few days for the coast of Mexico, to relieve the Clio, ordered to Panama. | ||
| Sa 13 April 1861 | Her Majesty's ship St. George with Prince Alfred on board, left St. Thomas's on the 27tn ult. for Santa Cruz and thence to Jamaica. The Nile (flag of Admiral Milne), Styx, Racer, Cadmus, Skipjack, Landrail, Hydra, and Imaum were at Port Royal, Jamaica, awaiting the arrival of the Prince. At Vera Cruz Her Majesty's ship Valorous; at Panama the Mutine and the United States' ship Lancaster. | ||
| Sa 29 March 1862 | The screw steam frigate Diadem, 32, Capt. Scott, which left Bermuda March 11, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Friday morning. On the 12th of March, in lat. 33 2 N., long. 61 51 W., she took on board the crew of the American brig C.W. Conner, Capt. Joseph Urann, which was bound with a cargo of sundries from Boston for St. Jago. The brig was dismasted on tho 6th of March, and the crew for the previous five days had been living on biscuit only. Moderate weather was experienced during all the passage, excepting on the 21st, when, in lat. 42 45 N., long. 32 29 W., they had a gale of wind from the westward. The Diadem brings home 250 officers and men, the remaining portion of the crew of the Conqueror, lost on Rum Bay Island, in the West Indies, and about 130 invalids, supernumeraries, and passengers, including lieutenant Taylor, 39th Regiment, and Mr. Tucker, late Colonial Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Bermuda, who is the bearer of the contributions from the island to the Great Exhibition. Mr. Vivian, carpenter of the Terror, died on the 23d, and Peter Kenney, private of Royal Marines, a lunatic, jumped overboard oa the 21st during the gale, and was drowned. The Diadem left at Bermuda the screw steamship Nile, 90, Capt. Edward K. Barnard, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, K.C.B.; the screw steamships Aboukir, 86, Capt. Charles F. Shadwell, C.B.; Hero, 89, Capt. Alfred P. Ryder; and Agamemnon, 89; the screw steam frigates Immortalité, 51, Orlando, 50, and Liffey, 51; the screw steam sloop Greyhound, 17; paddlewheel steam sloops Spiteful, 6, and Medea, 6 ; the screw steam sloop Racer, 11; the screw steam gun-vessels Nimble, 5, and Landrail, 5 ; and the floating battery Terror, 16. The screw steamship Adelaide, with troops, arrived at Bermuda March 10. Her fuel was nearly expended. | ||
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