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| Name | Simoom (1849) | Explanation | |
| Type | Frigate | ||
| Launched | 24 May 1849 | ||
| Hull | Iron | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | 1980 tons | ||
| Displacement | 2920 tons | ||
| Guns | 20 | ||
| Fate | 1887 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | ADM 135/430 | ||
| Note | Not commissioned as frigate. 1852 troopship | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 9 February 1852 - 1 June 1853 | Commanded by Captain John Kingcome | ||
| 30 May 1853 - 19 August 1854 | Commanded by Captain Henry Smith, until he died | ||
| 26 August 1854 - 1 January 1855 | Commanded by Captain Edward Tatham | ||
| 2 December 1854 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Ross Sulivan | ||
| 18 December 1856 - 4 August 1861 | Commanded by Commander John Murray Cooke, until Cooke died on board Simoon at Woosung, China | ||
| 30 January 1866 - 9 April 1870 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Thomas Bridgeman Lethbridge | ||
| 5 December 1871 - 23 April 1872 | Commanded by Captain Edward Madden | ||
| 5 May 1873 - 1876 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain Mountford Stephen Loviele Peile | ||
| 3 August 1876 - 16 October 1878 | Commanded by Captain Russell Graves Sabine Pasley | ||
| 22 October 1878 - 31 January 1879 | Commanded by Captain John Frederick George Grant | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Th 11 March 1858 | Her Majesty's ship Boscawen, left Simon's Bay on the 3d of January, on a cruise to St. Helena. Ascension, and the West Coast; the Admiral, Sir F. Grey, on board. The Sappho left on the 8th for Australia. The Hermes left for East London, with the Governor, on the 19th. On the 27th Her Majesty's steamer Simoom arrived from Calcutta, and is now the only vessel of war in Simons Bay. | ||
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