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| Name | Centaur (1845) | Explanation | |
| Type | 2nd class frigate | ||
| Launched | 6 October 1845 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 1270 tons | ||
| Displacement | 2100 tons | ||
| Guns | 6 | ||
| Fate | 1864 | ||
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| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 1 January 1849 - 1850 | Commanded by Captain Claude Henry Mason Buckle, flagship of Commodore Arthur Fanshawe, west coast of Africa (until Buckle was invalided) | ||
| 1 January 1850 - 30 June 1851 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Commander Frederick Patten, flagship of Commodore Arthur Fanshawe, west coast of Africa | ||
| 23 July 1851 - 16 September 1853 | Commanded by Captain Edward St Leger Cannon, flagship of William Willmott Henderson, south-east coast of America | ||
| 21 September 1853 - 6 May 1854 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Thomas Harvey, flagship of Rear-Admiral William Willmott Henderson on the South-east coast of America station | ||
| 2 February 1855 - 17 November 1858 | Commanded by Captain William John Cavendish Clifford, Mediterranean, then the Baltic during the Russian War | ||
| 20 September 1859 - 21 July 1861 | Commanded by Commander Elphinstone D'Oyly D'Auvergne Aplin, East Indies and China (including British involvement in Taiping rebellion) | ||
| 20 March 1861 - 17 May 1863 | Commanded by Commander John Eglinton Montgomerie, East Indies and China (including British involvement in Taiping rebellion) | ||
| 15 January 1863 | Commanded by Acting Commander John Zell Creasy, East Indies and China | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Th 21 June 1849 | Wednesday The Pantaloon, 8, Commander Lewis de Teissier Prevost, arrived at Spithead this afternoon from the coast of Africa. She has not been 12 months in commission yet. She sailed from Ascension on the 1st of May, leaving the Centaur steam-frigate, bearing the Commodore, and the Tortoise store-ship the only men-of-war there. Sailed from Sierra Leone on the 13th of May. She has brought home the mail intended for the Contest, which would not sail homewards until the 1st of Jane, and the following officers Mr. Byford, Master of the Philomel, and Dr. Belcher, surgeon, of the Tortoise, invalided; also Mr. Buck and the prize crew of the Grappler, put on board the last capture made by that vessel on the passage home. | ||
| Ma 24 April 1854 | The Centaur, 11, paddlewheel frigate, Captain Harvey, flagship of Rear-Admiral Henderson on the Brazils station, arrived at Portsmouth at noon on Saturday. She left Rio on the 14th ult. At 1 p.m., when the Madagascar (bearing Rear-Admiral Henderson's flag), Crescent, Trident, and Sharpshooter were there. Exchange, 28¾ to 29d. Per milreis. Left Bahia on the 20th of March, St. Vincents on the 9th inst., and Madeira on the 14th. The United States' frigate Constitution was at the last-named port, and the only pendant lying there. The Centaur reports seeing on Friday a squadron of six sailing ships and a steamer off the French coast, no doubt part of the French squadron from Brest for the Baltic. In saluting the flag of Rear-Admiral Henderson, on its being transferred to the Madagascar at Rio on the 14th ult., the charge of one of the Centaur's guns prematurely exploded and blew off the right arms of two seamen. The poor fellows are now doing well. The Centaur steamed into harbour without anchoring at Spithead, and hauled alongside of the coaling depôt to take in fuel, &c. What necessary repairs she required were done with the utmost expedition; she was revictualled with equal alacrity by the authorities of the Clarence-yard, and yesterday morning steamed out of harbour for the Baltic. | ||
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