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| Name | Tartarus (1834) | Explanation | |
| Type | Gunvessel | ||
| Launched | 23 June 1834 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 523 tons | ||
| Displacement | 560 tons | ||
| Guns | 2 | ||
| Fate | 1860 | ||
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| Note | |||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 2 February 1838 - 1841 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander George Woodberry Smith, North America & West Indies | ||
| (January 1843) | Out of commission at Woolwich | ||
| 14 October 1843 - 31 December 1843 | Commanded by Acting Captain Horatio Thomas Austin | ||
| 26 December 1843 | Commanded by Acting Captain James Wolfe, coast of Ireland | ||
| 7 June 1847 - 8 October 1847 | Commanded (from commissioning at Woolwich) by Lieutenant commander Andrew Robert Dunlap, coast of Ireland | ||
| 9 October 1847 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Godfrey Vassal Webster, Mediterranean | ||
| 1 April 1851 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Richard Hawkins Risk, particular service | ||
| 7 January 1856 | Commanded by Commander Arthur Lukis Mansell, Mediterranean | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Tu 20 July 1847 | Woolwich, July 19. The Tartarus steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander Dunlop [sic], and the crew of the Acheron, left yesterday for Portsmouth, where she will embark supernumeraries and proceed to Cork, and will be employed about three months on the coast of Ireland, until the Acheron receives new boilers. | ||
| Th 14 October 1847 | Woolwich, Oct. 13. The crew of the Acheron steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Dunlap, recently serving in the Tartarus steam-vessel, were paid off to-day at Woolwich, and a number of the men have stated their intention of again serving in the Tartarus, commissioned on Monday last by Lieutenant Sir Godfrey Webster, Bart., who has the command of the vessel. The Tartarus is refitting, and will soon be ready for service. | ||
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