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HMS Highflyer (1851)
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Name | Highflyer | 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 | |||
Date | Extract | ||
(various) | The 1844 Experimental squadron. |
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