HMS Mercury (1837)
HMS Mercury (1837)


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NameMercury (1837)Explanation
TypeCutter tender   
Launched7 February 1837
HullWooden
PropulsionSail
Builders measure70 tons
Displacement 
Guns 
Fate1904
Class 
Ships book
Note1866 = YC.6.
1876 = Plymouth
Snippets concerning this vessels career
DateEvent
(January 1840)Tender at Portsmouth
1866Renamed YC.6
8 February 1876Renamed Plymouth
Extracts from the Times newspaper
DateExtract
Ma 18 October 1847

PORTSMOUTH, Oct 17.

The officers and crew of the Comet have at last returned to that vessel from the Fire Queen, and the latter has been laid up alongside the Britannia, 120, in charge of her engineers and stokers for the present. Rumour states that there is to be a complete change in regard to the tenders, which are in future to be steamers instead of sailing vessels, Undine and Fire Queen superseding Fanny, Emerald, and Mercury, at this port.


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