Name | Shamrock (1856) | Explanation | |
Type | Gunboat | ||
Launched | 13 March 1856 | ||
Hull | Wooden | ||
Propulsion | Screw | ||
Builders measure | 232 tons | ||
Displacement | |||
Guns | 4 | ||
Fate | 1867 | ||
Class | Albacore | ||
Ships book | ADM 135/426 | ||
Note | |||
Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
Date | Event | ||
(May 1856) | Commanded by Lieutenant commander William Andrew James Heath | ||
(June 1856) | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Charles James Bullock, coast of Ireland, surveying | ||
1 April 1858 | Commanded by Master commander William B. Calver, tender to Fisgard, Woolwich | ||
13 April 1859 - 30 May 1859 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Commander Joseph Edye, for surveying | ||
26 July 1860 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Edward Wolfe Brooker, surveying service, tender to Fisgard, Woolwich | ||
1 January 1863 | Commanded by Captain Henry Charles Otter, for Surveying Service, carried on the books of Fisgard |