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| Name | Viper (1831) | Explanation | |
| Type | Schooner | ||
| Launched | 12 May 1831 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 183 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 6 | ||
| Fate | 1851 | ||
| Class | Cockatrice | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | |||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 17 March 1837 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander William Robert Wolseley Winniett, on the West African station | ||
| July 1838 - January 1841 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Godolphin James Burslem, Cape of Good Hope & Coast of Africa | ||
| 1 September 1841 - 1845 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander James Carter, South America | ||
| 8 December 1845 - 9 November 1846 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Edward Evans Gray, North America and West Indies | ||
| 14 October 1846 - 23 November 1847 | Commanded by Lieutenant Edward George Hore, North America and West Indies | ||
| 21 November 1847 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Henry Bernard, North America and West Indies | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Fr 6 July 1849 | Her Majesty’s ship Imaum, with the broad pendant of Commodore Bennett, was at Port Royal, Jamaica. The Sappho, 12, Commander Mitchell, was on the Spanish Main. The Helena (brig), Commander de Courcy, was daily expected at Port Royal from Vera Cruz, which port she left on the 16th of May. The Hound, 8, was also expected from St. Domingo. The Viper (schooner), 6, was at Barbadoes, and the Wellesley (flag), Trincomalee, Vixen, and Bermuda at Halifax. | ||
| Th 23 August 1849 | The West India squadron generally was healthy. Her Majesty's brig Sappho was at Vera Cruz on the 16th of July. The Imaum and Helena were at Jamaica on the 23d. The screw-steamer Plumper arrived at Port Royal on the 12th of July, in 32 days from Plymouth. She was at Port au Prince. The Viper was laid up at Antigua tor the hurricane months. The schooner Scorpion was surveying in the Gulf of Para. The French steamer Amazon, 8 guns, was at Demerara, haring her engines repaired. The Commander-in-Chief in the Wellesley, with the Trincomalee, Vixen, and Bermuda, was at Halifax. | ||
| Th 29 November 1849 | PORT ROYAL, Oct 24. The West India Squadron In Harbour.—The Imaum, 72, Commodore Bennett; the Persian, 16; Commander Bulman; the Helena, 16, Commander de Courcy; and the Plumper, 10, Commander Nolloth.The Wellesley, 72, Captain Goldsmith, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral the Earl of DundonaId, G.C.B., and the Vixen steam sloop, Commander Jenner, are at Halifax, expected at Bermuda the beginning of next month. The Sappho, 16, Commander Michell, is daily expected from the Havannah. The Viper schooner is at La Guayra. The Bermuda schooner, Lieutenant Commander Jolly, is at the Gulf of Florida. The Helena has had many severe cases of fever; the Sappho has also been sickly; the Plumper, too. has suffered similarly. The Helena is about to proceed to Turk's Island, to ascertain the proper site for a lighthouse there. The Persian was about to sail for Port-au-Prince and St. Domingo. The Admiral is expected here towards the end of December. The Plumper, just before leaving this part of the station, had taken Fort Truxillo, and obtained part of a debt owed by Honduras to the English Government. Truxillo town has 2,000 or 3,000 inhabitants. Commander Nolloth landed with nearly the whole of his ship’s company. The heat has been very great here lately. The inhabitants and the ships’ crew generally are suffering much with large and painful boils. The Plumper has sent several cases of fever to the Naval Hospital since her arrival at Port Royal. This is not to be wondered at, considering that when her steam is up the thermometer sometimes stands as high as 126° on the lower deck, an amount of heat greater than is shown when the instrument is exposed to the direct rays of the sun. | ||
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