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| Name | Meteor (1855) | Explanation | |
| Type | Floating battery | ||
| Launched | 17 April 1855 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | 1469 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 14 | ||
| Fate | 1861 | ||
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| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 22 May 1855 - 1856 | Commanded by Captain Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, floating battery, which he took out to the Crimea, and brought back to Portsmouth (according to the DNB "feats of seamanship scarcely less dangerous than any war services") | ||
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