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HMS Simoom (1849)
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NameSimoomExplanation
TypeFrigate   
Launched24 May 1849
HullIron
PropulsionScrew
Builders measure1980 tons
Displacement2920 tons
Guns20
Fate1887
Class 
Ships bookADM 135/430
NoteNot commissioned as frigate.
1852 troopship
Snippets concerning this vessels career
DateEvent
9 February 1852Commanded by Captain John Kingcome, Portsmouth
2 December 1854Commanded by Captain Thomas Ross Sulivan, Mediterranean
18 December 1856Commanded by Commander John Murray Cooke
2 February 1866
- 9 April 1870		Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Thomas Bridgeman Lethbridge
5 December 1871Commanded by Captain Edward Madden
5 May 1873
- 1876		Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain Mountford Stephen Loviele Peile
October 1876Commanded by Captain Russell Graves Sabine Pasley
21 October 1878Commanded by Captain John Frederick George Grant
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