HMS Torch (1859)
HMS Torch (1859)


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NameTorch (1859)Explanation
TypeGunvessel   
Launched24 December 1859
HullWooden
PropulsionScrew
Builders measure428 tons
Displacement570 tons
Guns5
Fate1881
ClassPhilomel
Ships book
Note 
Snippets concerning this vessels career
DateEvent
14 June 1860Commanded by Commander Frederick Harrison Smith, west coast of Africa
5 January 1871
- 2 September 1871
Commanded by Commander Louis Geneste, West Coast of Africa
11 September 1871Commanded by Commander Joseph Edward Maitland Wilson
17 September 1871
- 30 October 1873
Commanded by Commander Hugh McNeile Dyer, west coast of Africa, then (March 1873), Mediterranean
23 October 1873
- 29 January 1876
Commanded by Commander Richard Henry Napier, Mediterranean
27 January 1876
- 7 March 1880
Commanded by Commander Richard Horace Hamond, Mediterranean


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