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| Name | Eclipse (1860) | Explanation | |
| Type | Gunvessel | ||
| Launched | 18 September 1860 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | 700 tons | ||
| Displacement | 877 tons | ||
| Guns | 4 | ||
| Fate | 1867 | ||
| Class | Cormorant | ||
| Ships book | ADM 135/146 | ||
| Note | |||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 24 September 1862 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Commander Richard Charles Mayne, Australia (during the New Zealand War) | ||
| 26 February 1864 - 9 February 1867 | Commanded by Commander Hon. Edmund Robert Fremantle, Australia | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Tu 24 January 1865 | The ships of war on the Australian station at the date of the last advices were — the Harrier, 17, Acting-Commander Swan, at New Zealand; the Miranda, 14, Capt. Jenkins, at Sydney; the Eclipse, 4, Commander Fremantle, at New Zealand; the Curacoa, 23, Commodore Sir W. Wiseman, at New Zealand; the Esk, 21, Capt. Luice, at Sydney; the Falcon, 17, Commander Parkin, at New Zealand; and the Salamander, 4, Commander the Hon. J. Carnegie, at Sydney. | ||
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