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HMS Rosario (1860)
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Name | Rosario | Explanation | |
Type | Sloop | ||
Launched | 17 October 1860 | ||
Hull | Wooden | Length | 160 feet |
Propulsion | Screw | Men | 140 |
Builders measure | 673 tons | ||
Displacement | 927 tons | ||
Guns | 11 | ||
Fate | 1884 | Last in commission | 1875 |
Class | Rosario | ||
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Career | |||
Date | Event | ||
17 October 1860 | Launched at Deptford Dockyard. | ||
20 June 1862 | Commanded (from commissioning) by Commander James Stanley Graham, North Sea (fishery protection) then (October 1862), Noeth America and West Indies | ||
14 May 1863 - 30 September 1864 | Commanded by Commander Henry Duncan Grant, North America and West Indies | ||
(1866) - 13 October 1866 | Commanded (until paying off at Chatham) by Commander Louis Hutton Versturme, North America and West Indies | ||
28 September 1867 - 4 October 1867 | Commanded (from commissioning at Woolwich) by Commander Louis Hutton Versturme, Woolwich | ||
4 October 1867 - 8 April 1870 | Commanded by Commander George Palmer, Australia | ||
8 April 1870 - 22 January 1874 | Commanded by Commander Henry Joseph Challis, Australia | ||
22 January 1874 - 12 October 1875 | Commanded (until paying off at Sheerness) by Commander Arthur Edward Dupuis, Australia | ||
31 January 1884 | Sold to Castle for breaking up at Charlton. |
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