HMS Scylla

HMS Scylla (1809)

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Name	Scylla (1809)	Explanation
Type	Brig-sloop
Launched	29 June 1809
Hull	Wooden
Propulsion	Sail
Builders measure	385 tons
Displacement
Guns	18
Fate	1846
Class	Cruizer
Ships book
Note
Snippets concerning this vessels career
Date	Event
3 September 1831 - 31 December 1833	Commanded by Commander George Grey. Mediterranean
3 December 1834 - 12 April 1836	Commanded by Commander Edward John Carpenter, West Indies
26 December 1836 - 28 March 1839	Commanded by Commander Joseph Denman, Lisbon
(January 1840)	Out of commission at Plymouth
26 January 1842 - 1845	Commanded by Commander Robert Sharpe, North America and West Indies
*Extracts from the Times* newspaper**
Date	Extract
Ma 30 January 1843	By the last accounts from Bermuda, the Warspite, 50, Captain Lord John Hay, and the Pique, 36, Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford, had not reached that island on the 3d instant. The Spartan, 26, Captain the Hon. C.G.J.B. Elliot, left Havannah for Jamaica on the 21st of December, where it is supposed orders await her to proceed forthwith to Bermuda or England. The following was the distribution of a portion of the West India fleet, according to the latest accounts:—The Fair Rosamond, Pickle, Avon, and Imaum, at Jamaica; the Volage, 26. Captain Sir W. Dickson, at Grenada; the Electra, 18, Commander A. Darley; and the Ringdove, 16, Commander Sir W. Daniell, at Honduras; the Scylla, 16, Commander Sharpe, on her passage from Jamaica to Honduras; the Pilot, 16, Commander W. Houston; the Crocodile, 26, Master-commander Thomas Elson; and the Griffin, 3, Lieutenant-commander Charles Jenkin, at Barbadoes.
Ma 19 June 1843	DUBLIN, June16. The Irish Naval Squadron. It appears from the Cork papers of last night, that the naval squadron at present assembling at Cove has been further reinforced by the arrival of the Orestes sloop, 18 guns, Commander the Hon. S.T. Carnegie, and the Racer brig, 16 guns, Commander A. Reed. A letter dated Cove, Thursday, June 15. says,— "At 10 o'clock this morning, the Lightning, Government steamer, with Rear Admiral Bowles, arrived, and soon afterwards his flag (blue at the mizzen) was hoisted on board Her Majesty’s ship Malabar, under a salute from the other vessels of war in the harbour. The Cyclops steamer has also arrived; and Her Majesty's ship Rose sailed last evening: her destination is said to be Halifax and West Indies." The Cork Reporter, in alluding to these arrivals, remarks:— The River Steamer Company will have reason to bless Lord De Grey, or the Government, or whoever it was that sent the Irish squadron to Cove, for their vessels, which we believe have departed from the quay at every hour since 3 o’clock this morning, have been crowded and crammed with passengers going down to see the sight which the harbour presents — a very novel one in these days and for years past, though in bygone times such a thing was not unusual. The ships now below are —The Malabar,72, Admiral Bowles, the Orestes, 18, Hon. S.T. Carnegie, the Racer, 16, Commander Reed; the Scylla, and the Tyne; and the Meteor and Lightning steamers. The Inconstant frigate is stated in some postings about the town to be also at Cove, bat this is not the fact. Dr. Yerling, the surgeon of that vessel, which has only lately returned from China, passed through this city a few days ago for Mallow, intending to make a stay there, but he has received orders to join at Plymouth with as little delay as may be, as she was about to be put in commission forthwith, and despatched to Cove to replace the Malabar, which is to leave in a day or two. A guardship is to be stationed in Cove, and an admiral also. The house in the town known as the 'Admiralty house' has been taken and fitted up for the accommodation of Admiral Bowles, who is to hoist his flag this day on board the Malabar." The whole of these arrangements appear to have thrown the excitable inhabitants of the "beautiful city" into a perfect delirium of delight.

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