Name | Pioneer | Explanation |
Type | Gunvessel |
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Launched | 19 January 1856 |
Hull | Wooden |
Propulsion | Screw |
Builders measure | 868 tons |
Displacement | |
Guns | 4 |
Fate | 1864 |
Class | Intrepid |
Ships book | ADM 135/365 |
Note | |
Snippets concerning this vessels career |
Date | Event |
8 February 1856 | Commanded by Commander George Pechell Mends, North America and West Indies |
7 May 1859 - 23 June 1859 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Commander Charles Henry May, Channel squadron, then China |
27 June 1859 - 11 July 1862 | Commanded by Commander Hugh Arthur Reilly, East Indies and China (including British involvement in Taiping rebellion), then (1862) Australia |
17 August 1862 - 22 September 1863 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Acting Commander Frederick Charles Bryan Robinson, Australia |