Name | Aetna (1824) | Explanation | |
Type | Bomb vessel | ||
Launched | 14 May 1824 | ||
Hull | Wooden | ||
Propulsion | Sail | ||
Builders measure | 375 tons | ||
Displacement | |||
Guns | 6 | ||
Fate | 1846 | ||
Class | Fury | ||
Ships book | |||
Note | 1826 survey vessel. 1846 sold Bristol Seamen's Friendly Society. | ||
Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
Date | Event | ||
4 May 1824 | Commanded by Commander Williams Sandom, Mediterranean | ||
13 May 1828 | Commanded by Commander Stephen Lushington, Mediterranean. Lushington received the orders of St Louis of France and the Redeemer of Greece, for his service in the operations against Morea Castle in the battle of Navarino (now Pylos) in the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire. | ||
27 May 1830 - 10 September 1833 | Commanded by Commander Edward Belcher, surveying off the east coast of Africa (including the Arguin shoals on which the French frigate Meduse was wrecked, then (end of 1832) in the River Douro as part of the British squadron under William Glascock ( Orestes) during the Portuguese civil war, then (1833) surveying in the Mediterranean | ||
21 September 1833 - 23 December 1833 | Commanded by Commander William George Skyring surveying on west coast of Africa (until Skyring was killed by natives at Cape Roxo on the Gambia river) | ||
23 December 1833 - 6 October 1834 | Commanded by Lieutenant and acting commander William Arlett, surveying on the west coast of Africa | ||
4 May 1834 - 29 August 1834 | Commanded by Commander Richard Laird Warren, surveying on the west coast of Africa | ||
24 October 1834 | Commanded by Lieutenant William Arlett, surveying on the west coast of Africa | ||
15 September 1835 - 1838 | Commanded by Captain Alexander Thomas Emeric Vidal surveying on west coast of Africa | ||
31 January 1839 - 25 April 1842 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander John Willson, between Shetland and St Sebastian, and as receiving ship in the Mersey | ||
23 May 1842 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Charles George Butler, Plymouth |