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| Name | Rhadamanthus (1832) | Explanation | |
| Type | 2nd class sloop | ||
| Launched | 16 April 1832 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 813 tons | ||
| Displacement | 1086 tons | ||
| Guns | 5 | ||
| Fate | 1864 | ||
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| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 13 July 1839 | Commanded by Commander Arthur Wakefield, Mediterranean | ||
| 28 August 1841 - 1846 | Commanded by Master commander Thomas Laen | ||
| 29 June 1846 | Commanded by Master commander Jonathan Aylen | ||
| 7 March 1851 | Commanded by Master commander John Belam, particular service | ||
| 29 October 1857 | Commanded by Master commander Frederick R. Sturdee, particular service | ||
| 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. | ||
| We 4 November 1846 | Portsmouth, Tuesday. The Comet steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Johnstone [sic], arrived at Cork from this port on Thursday last, and found there the Rhadamanthus steam-vessel, Master-Commander Aylen; the Acheron steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Dunlop [sic]; the Dee steam-vessel, Master-Commander Driver; the Blazer steam-vessel, Captain Washington; and the Myrmidon steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Jenkin; which vessels were about being sent to various ports along the Irish coast with meal to relieve the prevailing distress, which is increasing along the coast to the westward. | ||
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