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HMS Princess Alice (1844)
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Name | Princess Alice | Explanation | |
Type | Packet | ||
Acquired | January 1844 | ||
Hull | Iron | ||
Propulsion | Paddle | ||
Builders measure | 270 tons | ||
Displacement | |||
Guns | 1 | ||
Fate | 1878 | ||
Class | |||
Ships book | |||
Note | Purchased | ||
Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
Date | Event | ||
11 January 1848 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Thomas Swain Scriven, Dover (photo) | ||
25 April 1862 | Commanded by Master Richard Cossantine Dyer, Plymouth, tender to Royal Adelaide | ||
Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
Date | Extract | ||
Tu 24 August 1869 | THE CRUISE OF THE LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY. H.M.S. AGINCOURT, PLYMOUTH SOUND. Monday, Noon Plymouth Sound was never before so well defended as it was this morning, when the sun, breaking through the mists which hung thickly over land and sea, shone down upon eleven magnificent ironclads anchored under the lee of the breakwater. The Monarch and Inconstant had joined during the night from Spithead, making the number of ships to sail this afternoon under the Admiralty ensign seven in all, and fortunately giving the fleet the company of our first and as yet untried seagoing turret-ship Monarch. The Black Prince entered the Sound yesterday afternoon from Bermuda, having left there on the 31st ult., and the Warrior anchored here last night from Spithead; neither of these vessels, however, will take part in the coming cruise. The Warrior would have joined had it been considered possible to get her ready in time on her arrival from Bermuda, but this anticipated cause of delay, although it has been got over, has now been supplemented by another in a change in her command, and our first and still handsome and formidable ironclad will not, therefore, join in the cruise. This is to be regretted, as it leaves a gap in this division of the combined fleet at sea previous to joining the Mediterranean division. With the Warrior in company, two lines or divisions equal in numbers could have been formed, but under the present conditions one division must necessarily be of four and the other of three ships.Vice-Admiral Sir T.M.C. Symonds, K.C.B., commanding the Channel Fleet, hoisted his flag at 8 o'clock this morning on board his flagship, the Minotaur, Captain James G. Goodenough, on his return from short leave. An official notice has been issued that letters from England will find the combined fleets at Gibraltar from the 1st to the 4th of September, both dates inclusive, and at Lisbon on the 13th. The ships which sail to-day from England will arrive at Queenstown on the 27th of September. The arrangements for the ships of the Channel Squadron to weigh this afternoon and proceed outside to wait for the Agincourt remain unaltered, and they are expected to leave the Sound about 5 p.m. Mr. Childers will arrive at Devonport from London by the 5 p.m. train, and go on board the Agincourt about 6 p.m., when she will immediately leave the Sound and join the other ships outside. By midnight the whole will be well off the land, and steering a course to clear Ushant, en route for Gibraltar. (BY TELEGRAPH.)
At noon to-day most of the ships in the Sound belonging to the Channel Squadron weighed one anchor, took in all boats, and got up steam. |
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