HMS Madagascar

HMS Madagascar (1822)

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Name	Madagascar (1822)	Explanation
Type	Fifth rate
Launched	15 November 1822
Hull	Wooden
Propulsion	Sail
Builders measure	1167 tons
Displacement
Guns	46
Fate	1863
Class	Druid
Ships book
Note	1853 harbour storeship
Snippets concerning this vessels career
Date	Event
14 April 1838 - September 1839	Commanded by Captain Provo William Parry Wallis, East Indies
(January 1840)	Out of commission at Portsmouth
18 August 1841 - 1844	Commanded by Captain John Foote, senior officer, west coast of Africa
4 October 1847	Commanded by Commander Robert Mann, particular service
3 October 1853	Commanded by Commander John William Finch, store ship, Rio de Janeiro
29 March 1855 - 3 November 1856	Commanded by Commander James Ptolemy Thurburn, store ship, Rio de Janeiro
16 September 1856 - 5 October 1859	Commanded by Commander Edmund Mortimer Leycester, store ship, Rio de Janeiro
16 September 1859 - 1 June 1863	Commanded by Captain Richard Dunning White, storeship, Rio de Janeiro
*Extracts from the Times* newspaper**
Date	Extract
Ma 28 September 1835	The Sulphur, surveying-ship, was commissioned to-day by Captain Beechey for the purpose of prosecuting and completing the surveys commenced by that scientific officer in the Pacific Ocean. The Sulphur and Starling cutter were undocked yesterday; the Aetna, surveying ship, and her tender, the Raven cutter, were docked; and the Madagascar, 42, was moved out of the basin. The Britannia, 120, will be undocked in ten days.
Ma 2 November 1840	The Vengeance, 84, will be taken out of dock on Monday, 9th instant, and will then be rigged under the superintendence of Mr. Miller, the master of the Victory. The masts and yards are selected for the St. Vincent. Neptune, Warspite, and Vindictive. The Trincomalee and Madagascar are in every respect ready for commission, the bulkheads and interior fittings being all complete.
Ma 12 April 1841	(From the Hampshire Telegraph of Saturday.) The St. Vincent, Madagascar, and Fair Rosamond, were put out of the basin on Monday, and the Vindictive and Warspite on Tuesday, in order that the basin might be run dry, to repair the works of the wood-mills. The Mercury sailed to-day for Sheerness, with a lieutenant of the Indus on board, to volunteer men from the Asia for that ship. The Emerald sailed yesterday for Devonport, with seamen gunners for the Cornwallis. The keel of a second class steamer, to be called the Thunderbolt, was laid down in this dockyard on Wednesday last.
Ma 24 April 1854	The Centaur, 11, paddlewheel frigate, Captain Harvey, flagship of Rear-Admiral Henderson on the Brazils station, arrived at Portsmouth at noon on Saturday. She left Rio on the 14th ult. At 1 p.m., when the Madagascar (bearing Rear-Admiral Henderson's flag), Crescent, Trident, and Sharpshooter were there. Exchange, 28¾ to 29d. Per milreis. Left Bahia on the 20th of March, St. Vincents on the 9th inst., and Madeira on the 14th. The United States' frigate Constitution was at the last-named port, and the only pendant lying there. The Centaur reports seeing on Friday a squadron of six sailing ships and a steamer off the French coast, no doubt part of the French squadron from Brest for the Baltic. In saluting the flag of Rear-Admiral Henderson, on its being transferred to the Madagascar at Rio on the 14th ult., the charge of one of the Centaur's guns prematurely exploded and blew off the right arms of two seamen. The poor fellows are now doing well. The Centaur steamed into harbour without anchoring at Spithead, and hauled alongside of the coaling depôt to take in fuel, &c. What necessary repairs she required were done with the utmost expedition; she was revictualled with equal alacrity by the authorities of the Clarence-yard, and yesterday morning steamed out of harbour for the Baltic.

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