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| Name | Highflyer (1851) | Explanation | |
| Type | Corvette (1852: Frigate) | ||
| Launched | 13 August 1851 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 192 feet |
| Propulsion | Screw | Men | |
| Builders measure | 1153 tons | ||
| Displacement | 1902 tons | ||
| Guns | 21 | ||
| Fate | 1871 | Last in commission | 1868 |
| Class | Class (as screw) | Highflyer | |
| Ships book | ADM 135/232 | ||
| Career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 13 August 1851 | Launched at C.J. Mare, Blackwall. | ||
| 15 March 1852 - 14 December 1852 | Commanded (from commissioning at Woolwich) by Captain Henry James Matson, North America and West Indies (until he died) | ||
| 15 December 1852 - 1 April 1853 | Commanded by Captain Edmund Heathcote, North Ameirca and West Indies | ||
| 1 April 1853 - 7 June 1856 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain John Moore, Mediterranean (and Black Sea during the Russian War) | ||
| 1 August 1856 - 2 January 1860 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Captain Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell, East Indies and China (present, during the 2nd Anglo-Chinese War), at capture of Canton in December 1857, and attack on Peiho forts on 25 June 1859, when a wound rendered him permanently lame) | ||
| 2 January 1860 - 31 May 1861 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Acting Captain William Andrew James Heath, East Indies and China | ||
| 15 December 1864 - 31 August 1868 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth until paying off) by Captain Thomas Malcolm Sabine Pasley, Cape of Good Hope and East Indies | ||
| May 1871 | Broken up at Portsmouth. | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
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