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| Name | Rattlesnake (1822) | Explanation | |
| Type | Sixth rate | ||
| Launched | 26 March 1822 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 503 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 28 | ||
| Fate | 1860 | ||
| Class | Atholl | ||
| Ships book | |||
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| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 11 November 1825 | Commanded by Captain John Leith | ||
| 4 November 1830 - 10 November 1833 | Commanded by Captain Charles Graham, South America | ||
| 20 September 1846 - 13 March 1850 | Commanded by Captain Owen Stanley, East Indies (until he died) | ||
| 23 December 1852 - 7 January 1856 | Commanded by Commander Henry Trollope, particular service, taking provisions to the vessels looking in the Bering Strait for signs of Sir John Franklin's espedition | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| We 24 January 1849 | Portsmouth, Jan. 23. The Dido, 18, Captain J.B. Maxwell, arrived at Spithead this morning, as noticed else where, and is ordered to Sheerness to be paid off. This ship has made an astonishingly quick passage home — the quickest, we believe, yet known. She has run over 13,438 miles in 77 days, and has averaged 174 miles per day since she left New Zealand, from which station she ran to Cape Horn (5,017 miles) in 25 days.The Havannah, 22, Captain Erskine, was at Auckland when the Dido sailed. The Rattlesnake surveying ship, Captain Owen Stanley, and her tender the Bramble, were surveying in Torres Straits. The Fly, 18, Captain Oliver, was at Wellington. The Acheron surveying steam sloop. Captain Stokes, was at Newcastle, a small place near Sydney, coaling, on her way to New Zealand. All who went out in the Dido have come home in her — a rare occurrence. | ||
| Th 16 December 1852 | SHEERNESS, Dec. 14. The Rattlesnake, 8, has this day been towed down here by the Adder steam-vessel, Mr. James Watt in charge, assisted by Mr. Thomar Crafter, Queen's pilot, of Chatham. The Rattlesnake has been taken into the fitting-basin, and will be docked to-morrow in the north dock; she is to be fitted with all possible despatch for the purpose of conveying provisions and stores to Behring’s Straits for the use of the expedition under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher. | ||
| Sa 18 December 1852 | SHEERNESS, Dec. 16. The Rattlesnake, 8, has this day been inspected by Mr. Isaac Watt, Assistant-Suryeyor of the Navy, who arrived here yesterday on an official visit for the purpose of carrying out the Admiralty orders as to her fitment and the alterations required for stowing stores and provisions for Sir Edward Belcher’s expedition. She will be thoroughly doubled from the wales down, and blocked on both bows and quarters, to prevent any possibility of receiving damage in the ice. Shipwrights are placed on her, and she is to be completed with all possible despatch. | ||
| Ma 20 December 1852 | SHEERNESS, Dec. 18. The Rattlesnake, 8, has this day been taken into the north dock and the seamen riggers are engaged in rigging her. Her rigging having been fully prepared for her arrival here, she will shortly be completed in that department. It is worthy of notice that while she was being masted yesterday under the shears, under the superintendence of Mr. Jonathan Aylen, the master-attendant, the mizenmast was hoisted, put in, and stepped in the short space of six minutes from the time it was taken from the masthouse. From 25 to 30 days will be required to fit the pipes throughout for the conveyance of hot air in this vessel; her spar deck is being shut in flush, and the seams thereof to be paid with Jefferies’ marine glue.... The Rattlesnake, 8, is ordered to be commissioned and to have a complement of 160 men. | ||
| Th 23 December 1852 | SHEERNESS, Dec. 21. The Rattlesnake, 8 guns, is having her copper stripped, and is progressing actively in being rigged. She is to be fitted with the masts, spars, and sails of the Larne, 14, gun sloop, which have been sent from Chatham-yard, the Larne having last paid off there. | ||
| Sa 8 January 1853 | Her Majesty's sloop Rattlesnake, 8, Commander Henry Trollope, is progressing fast in her fitment, and a number of fine ablebodied seamen are volunteering for her. | ||
| Ma 10 January 1853 | SHEERNESS, Jan. 9, 1 p.m. Her Majesty's sloop Rattlesnake, 8, Commander Henry Trollope.— Lieutenant John Paulet Miller (13th July, 1850), took up his commission yesterday, and obtained the Admiral’s leave for four days. In consequence of some defects being detected about the bows of this vessel in the range of the hawse timbers several shifts of plank from forward on both bows have been taken out for the purpose of putting in new timbers, and making good the said defects. This will not in the least retard the undocking of this vessel at the time appointed. | ||
| Ma 17 January 1853 | Her Majesty's sloop Rattlesnake, Commander Henry Trollope, is to be out of the shipwrights' hands by the 27th inst., and she is to be all ready for sea by the 4th of February next. It has caused some surprise here among naval men that only an assistant-surgeon is appointed to her, taking into consideration her destination. The officers and crew of this vessel are all living on shore in Her Majesty’s dockyard. | ||
| Sa 22 January 1853 | The Rattlesnake sloop, Commander Henry Trollope, is being coppered preparatory to her being put out of dock. The officers and crew are permitted to allot any part, or all, of their pay to whom they please after their departure from here. Iti s reported that the officers and crew are to have their double pay commence when they round Cape Hom, as in the case of the Plover, Investigator, and Enterprise. The destination of the Rattlesnake is Point Barrow. She will take in provisions and stores for three years. A few petty officers only are wanting now to complete her crew. | ||
| Ma 24 January 1853 | The Rattlesnake, Commander Henry Trollope.— Stores, provision, &c., principally consisting of beef, pork, and Hogarth’s preserved meats, and bread, have arrived here from Deptford for this vessel. She will go out of dock on the 27th inst., and remain in the basin to complete her loading afloat, in order to ascertain her draught, it being doubtful whether she will be able to stow all the stores intended for her. The entire lower deck is appropriated for stowage. Captain Trollope and all the officers appear to vie with each other in superintending the internet fitment of this vessel for the permanent comfort of the ship’s company. The officers, having had such numerous applications for entry, have had the opportunity of selecting the men, and she bas a very smart crew, and bids fair to be a happy ship. | ||
| Tu 1 February 1853 | SHEERNE5S, Jan. 30. The Rattlesnake, Commander Henry Trollope, was put out of the fitting-basin yesterday. | ||
| Fr 4 February 1853 | SHEERNESS, Feb. 2. The Rattlesnake, Commander Charles Trollope, is ordered to leave here on Sunday next. The steamtug African will tow her from here to Portsmouth. The Medea, paddle-wheel steamsloop, of 350-horse power, Commander John C. Bailey, now at Portsmouth, it is reported will accompany her, and tow her, as occasion requires, until she arrives in the Pacific, after which the Medea will proceed for Hongkong. | ||
| Ma 14 February 1853 | The Cruizer, 14 (screw), Commander the Hon. G.H. Douglas, having remedied the defect in her screw shaft, was undocked yesterday afternoon, and the Rattlesnake, 8, Commander Trollope, was taken in to repair defects, which always seem to develop themselves between the Thames and Spithead in all ships and vessels fitted at the eastward. | ||
| Tu 15 February 1853 | PORTSMOUTH, Feb 14. The Rattlesnake, 8, Commander Trollope, was docked to-day to repair a leak near her sternpost. | ||
| We 23 February 1853 | PORTSMOUTH, Feb 22. The Rattlesnake, 8, Commander Trollope, was undocked yesterday and is re-shipping her sea stores. | ||
| Th 24 February 1853 | PORTSMOUTH, Wednesday. The Rattlesnake, 8, Commander Trollope, was towed out of harbour this morning to Spithead by the Echo steam-tug, which then cast her off, when the Basilisk, 8, paddle-sloop, Commander the Hon. F. Egerton, took her in tow and proceeded with her to sea. | ||
| Ma 28 February 1853 | PORTSMOUTH< Sunday. The Basilisk, 6, paddle sloop, Commander the Hon. F. Egerton, having towed the Rattlesnake to a good offing, returned to Spithead yesterday. | ||
| We 9 November 1853 | Admiralty, Nov, 8.— Letters for the Enterprise, Rattlesnake, and Plover, in Behring Straits, must be sent to the Admiralty on or before the 31st of December. | ||
| Ma 28 November 1853 | The Rattlesnake, 8, Commander Trollope, was at the Sandwich Islands on July 30. | ||
| Tu 25 December 1855 | Her Majesty’s ship Rattlesnake, Captain Trollope, also arrived at Spithead yesterday morning. She fitted out in February, 1853, for Behring's Straits, to carry relief to the searching expeditions for Franklin which took that route; she was frozen in those straits during the winter of 1853; victualled Her Majesty’s ship Enterprise in August, 1854, and proceeded to Valparaiso, where she arrived on the 27th of November. She was there detained by the admiral commanding the British squadron on the Pacific station, and sent to the Sandwich Islands with provisions for the squadron organised to proceed against Petropaulovski after having filled up the ships of the squadron, she left for Valparaiso on the 9th of June and arrived there on the 13th of August, whence she sailed for Rlo and England on the 25th; arrived at Rio on the 7th of October, having had fine weather the whole passage; sailed from Rio, for England, on the 13th of October, and anchored in Portland-roads on the 17th inst., where she took shelter from strong westerly winds in the Channel. She has experienced head winds the whole voyage fro Rlo. She received orders at Portland to proceed to Devonport, but the south-east-gale was too strong to allow of her getting her anchor. | ||
| Fr 11 January 1856 | The Rattlesnake storeship was paid off on the 7th inst. | ||
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