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| Name | Prometheus (1839) | Explanation | |
| Type | Sloop | ||
| Launched | 21 September 1839 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 800 tons | ||
| Displacement | 878 tons | ||
| Guns | 5 | ||
| Fate | 1863 | ||
| Class | Alecto | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | |||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 21 November 1839 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Thomas Spark, Mediterranean | ||
| 23 February 1843 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Frederick Lowe, particular service | ||
| 18 January 1844 - 27 March 1844 | Commanded by Lieutenant William Montagu Isaacson George Pasco, Woolwich | ||
| 15 May 1844 | Commanded by Commander John Hay, west coast of Africa | ||
| 9 May 1850 - 31 January 1853 | Commanded by Commander Henry Richard Foote, west coast of Africa | ||
| 25 February 1854 - 3 October 1854 | Commanded by Commander Edward Bridges Rice, west coast of Africa | ||
| 12 September 1854 - 16 January 1856 | Commanded by Commander Jasper Henry Selwyn, west coast of Africa | ||
| 27 January 1856 - 15 September 1857 | Commanded by Commander Charles Webley Hope, west coast of Africa | ||
| 19 October 1859 - 12 November 1860 | Commanded (from commissioning at Woolwich) by Commander Sidmouth Stowell Skipwich, west coast of Africa (until Skipwich invalided) | ||
| 6 November 1860 - 21 June 1862 | Commanded by Commander Norman Bernard Bedingfield, west coast of Africa | ||
| 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. | ||
| Fr 9 July 1847 | The following ships have served the usual period of commission (three years); many have exceeded that term, and are on their way home to be paid off or are ordered to return as soon as relieved:—
EAST INDIA STATION. The Agincourt, 72, Captain Johnstone, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief; having been relieved by the Vernon, 50, Captain Fitzgerald, Rear-Admiral Inglefield.The Fox, 42, Commodore Sir Henry Blackwood. The Castor, 36, Captain Graham. The Iris, 26, Captain Mundy. The Pilot, 16, Commander Wilson. The Wolf, 16, Commander Vansittart. The Spiteful steam sloop, Commander Sir W. Hoste, Bart. MEDITERRANEAN. The Albion, 90, Captain Fremantle. The America, 50, Captain Sir T. Maitland. The Flamer steam sloop, Lieutenant-Commander Lavie.The Hecla steam sloop, Commander Starmer. The Virago steam sloop, Commander Lunn. PACIFIC STATION. The Collingwood, 80, Captain Smart, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir George Seymour, Commander-in-Chief.The Fisgard, 42, Captain Duntze. The Modeste, 18, Captain Watkins. The Cormorant steam sloop, Commander Seymour. THE BRAZILS. The Curaçoa, 24, Captain Broughton.The Racer, 16, Commander Reed. The Satellite, 16, Commander Rowley. THE WEST INDIES. The Hermes steam sloop, Commander Carr.COAST OF AFRICA. The Prometheus steam sloop, Commander Hay.The Sealark, 6, Acting-Commander Whyte. COAST OF IRELAND. The Comet steam sloop, Lieutenant-Commander Johnstone.The Stromboli steam sloop, Commander Fisher. | ||
| Th 1 January 1863 | The Prometheus, 5, 200-horse power, which was undocked at Chatham Dockyard a few days since to allow of the iron paddlewheel steamer Recruit, 6, 160-horse power, being placed in the same dock to undergo some very extensive repairs, is ordered to be thoroughly surveyed by several of the master-shipwrights connected with the various dockyards, with the view to ascertain whether the defects in that vessel are of such a nature as to allow of her repair. During the time the Prometheus was in dock she underwent a survey at the hands of the dockyard officials, the result of which was the discovery that most of her timbers were exceedingly rotten and her planking very defective. Her engines and machinery have been taken out and placed in the dockyard, and should the special report to the Admiralty be unfavourable she will either he broken up or sold out of the service. The Prometheus is not an old vessel, and nearly the whole time since she was built she has been employed on the coast of Africa. | ||
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