Name | Nettle (launched as Thunderer, 1831) | Explanation | |
Type | Second rate | ||
Launched | 22 September 1831 | ||
Hull | Wooden | ||
Propulsion | Sail | ||
Builders measure | 2279 tons | ||
Displacement | |||
Guns | 84 | ||
Fate | 1901 | ||
Class | Canopus | ||
Ships book | |||
Note | 1863 target. 1869 = Comet. 1870 = Nettle | ||
Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
Date | Event | ||
(January 1840) | Out of commission at Plymouth | ||
31 January 1840 - 28 July 1841 | Commanded by Captain Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinghe Berkeley, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840) | ||
28 July 1841 - 1843 | Commanded by Captain Daniel Pring, Mediterranean and then Cape of Good Hope | ||
1869 | Renamed Comet | ||
1870 | Renamed Nettle |