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| Name | Torch (1859) | Explanation | |
| Type | Gunvessel | ||
| Launched | 24 December 1859 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | 428 tons | ||
| Displacement | 570 tons | ||
| Guns | 5 | ||
| Fate | 1881 | ||
| Class | Philomel | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | |||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 14 June 1860 | Commanded by Commander Frederick Harrison Smith, west coast of Africa | ||
| 5 January 1871 - 2 September 1871 | Commanded by Commander Louis Geneste, West Coast of Africa | ||
| 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 | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Sa 21 May 1864 | The screw corvette Cadmus, 21, 400-horse power, which is undergoing a thorough refit and repair at Chatham Dockyard in readiness for the first division of the steam reserve, is to be supplied with a new Griffiths propeller, in lieu of her present screw, which is to be taken out. The Cadmus during the time she has been in dock has been fitted with a topgallant forecastle, and has undergone a general repair at an estimated cost of 12,000l. She will be out of the shipwrights' hands in the course of a fortnight. | ||
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