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| Name | Medea (1833) | Explanation | |
| Type | 2nd class sloop | ||
| Launched | 2 September 1833 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 835 tons | ||
| Displacement | 1142 tons | ||
| Guns | 4 | ||
| Fate | 1867 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | ADM 135/304 | ||
| Note | |||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 15 February 1834 - 7 October 1837 | Commanded by Commander Horatio Thomas Austin, Mediterranean | ||
| 14 February 1838 - 23 November 1839 | Commanded by Commander John Neale Nott, North America and West Indies | ||
| (January 1840) | Out of commission at Woolwich | ||
| 12 August 1840 - 16 May 1845 | Commanded (from commissioning at Woolwich) by Commander Frederick Warden, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840, and at the blockade of Alexandria). Later collecting the 'Xanthian Marbles' (an ancient collection of sculptures discovered in 1838 by Sir Charles Fellows at the Greek city of Xanthus, and now in the British Museum) | ||
| 2 November 1846 | Commanded (from commissioning) by Commander Francis Thomas Brown (commissioned at Woolwich) | ||
| 5 November 1846 - 23 January 1847 | Commanded by Commander Graham Eden William Hamond, until he died | ||
| 25 January 1847 | Commanded by Commander Thomas Henry Mason, East Indies | ||
| 18 December 1852 - 17 November 1853 | Commanded by Commander John Crawshay Bailey, North America and West Indies | ||
| 18 November 1853 - 17 December 1855 | Commanded by Commander Augustus Phillimore, North America and West Indies | ||
| 10 October 1855 - June 1856 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Commander Edward Peirse, North America and West Indies | ||
| 18 September 1861 - 22 June 1865 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth until paying off at Portsmouth) by Commander D'Arcy Spence Preston, North America and West Indies | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Ma 14 September 1840 | It appears that neither the Salamander nor Comet steam-vessels are to be paid off; they are equipping at Woolwich, with great despatch; they will be both at Spithead about the last week in September. The Medea will leave Woolwich on the 24th. The Vesuvius is fitting at Chatham for the Mediterranean. These four steam ships will increase Sir R. Stopford's force to 10 powerful steam-vessels of war, he having already the Gorgon, Cyclops, Phoenix, Rhadamanthus, Hydra, and Stromboli; and to which there are several steamers already fitted for guns, &c., employed in the conveyance of the mails, such as the Acheron, Volcano, Prometheus, Megaera, Alecto, &c. | ||
| We 5 January 1853 | The steam squadron of reserve, under the superintendence of Captain W.H. Henderson, C.B., of the Blenheim, 60, since the commissioning of the Sidon, Odin, Furious, and Medea, has been reduced to four vessels — viz., the Leopard, 12, 560-horse power; Vesuvius, 6, 280-horse power; Bulldog, 6, 500 horse-power; and the Stromboli, 6, 280-horse power; all paddle vessels. The Hecla, 6, will shortly join them, having been masted ready for rigging. | ||
| Fr 28 May 1858 | The Impérieuse, 51, screw frigate, will be undocked this day at Portsmouth and placed in the steam basin to be completed for commission. | ||
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