Name | Wye (launched as Hecla, 1855) | Explanation | |
Type | Storeship | ||
Acquired | May 1855 | ||
Hull | Iron | ||
Propulsion | Screw | ||
Builders measure | 700 tons | ||
Displacement | |||
Guns | |||
Fate | 1866 | ||
Class | |||
Ships book | |||
Note | Transferred from Treasury Dept. 1855.06 = Wye | ||
Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
Date | Event | ||
June 1855 | Renamed Wye | ||
6 April 1861 - 30 October 1865 | Commanded (until paying off at Woolwich) by Master commander Valentine G Roberts, store ship, Sierra Leone |