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| Name | Scorpion (1832) | Explanation | |
| Type | Brig-sloop | ||
| Launched | 28 July 1832 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 228 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 10 | ||
| Fate | 1874 | ||
| Class | Cherokee | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1848 survey vessel. 1858 lent Thames police | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 8 October 1836 - January 1837 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Edward Holland | ||
| 13 February 1837 - 23 November 1841 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Charles Gayton, Mediterranean | ||
| (January 1843) | Out of commission at Plymouth | ||
| 2 April 1849 - 15 January 1853 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander George Bennett Lawrance, North America and West Indies, surveying | ||
| 14 January 1855 | Commanded by Master commander John Parsons, West Indies | ||
| 8 July 1865 - 1 January 1866 | Commanded by Captain John Edmund Commerell, Portsmouth | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Th 23 August 1849 | The West India squadron generally was healthy. Her Majesty's brig Sappho was at Vera Cruz on the 16th of July. The Imaum and Helena were at Jamaica on the 23d. The screw-steamer Plumper arrived at Port Royal on the 12th of July, in 32 days from Plymouth. She was at Port au Prince. The Viper was laid up at Antigua tor the hurricane months. The schooner Scorpion was surveying in the Gulf of Para. The French steamer Amazon, 8 guns, was at Demerara, haring her engines repaired. The Commander-in-Chief in the Wellesley, with the Trincomalee, Vixen, and Bermuda, was at Halifax. | ||
| Sa 20 July 1850 | Her Majesty's ship Trincomalee, Captain Warren, 19 days from Grey Town, reached Port Royal, Jamaica, on the 18th of June, and, with the Imaum, was left in that harbour on the 22d ult. The Alarm was at Barbadoes, the Scorpion surveying off Nassau, the schooner Bermuda on a cruise, and the Persian in the Gulf of Mexico. The Wellesley (flag), the sloops Helena and Sappho, and the steamer Plumper at Halifax. | ||
| We 26 February 1851 | Her Majesty’s ship Wellesley, Vice-Admiral Lord Dundonald (Commander-in-Chief), and Her Majesty’s brig Sappho, Commander Cochrane, were at Trinidad on the 31st of January, and would proceed in a few days to Jamaica, where the squadron was about to assemble for the purpose of holding a court-martial on Commander Dyke, of the Inflexible. Her Majesty’s ship Alarm and the steamer Alban were at Port Royal. The schooner Bermuda at Greytown. The Scorpion at Tortola. Her Majesty’s brig Helena arrived at St. Thomas’s on the 2d of February, and sailed the following day for Jamaica. | ||
| Ma 10 March 1851 | Her Majesty’s ship Wellesley, 72, Captain Goldsmith (bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Lord Dundonald), and the Sappho, 12, were at Trinidad on the 14th of February, about to proceed to Jamaica. The Imaum, 72, Persian, 12, and Plumper and Alban steamers were at Port Royal on the 14th ult. The Helena, 16, was at Porto Rico on the 18th, the Bermuda at Greytown on the 3d, and Scorpion at St. Thomas’s on the 19th ult. The Alarm was cruising off Cuba, but was expected daily at Port Royal. The Inflexible was spoken on the 15th of February by the Royal mail steamer Great Western, having left Port Royal on the 13th of February with the 2d West India Regiment on board for Demerara. The Inflexible was to call at Barbadoes. The screw steam-sloop Plumper was refitting at Jamaica to join the Brazil station. The squadron was particularly healthy, there being only 12 persons in hospital at Jamaica, all convalescing. | ||
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