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HMS Ruby (1854)
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| Name | Ruby | Explanation | |
| Type | Gunboat | ||
| Launched | 7 October 1854 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | 216 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 4 | ||
| Fate | 1868 | ||
| Class | Gleaner | ||
| Ships book | ADM 135/410 | ||
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| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 24 July 1855 - 10 September 1856 | Commanded (until paying off at Sheerness) by Lieutenant commander Henry George Hale, the Baltic (as tender to Majestic) during the Russian War | ||
| 26 June 1858 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Robert John Stotherd, tender to Cornwallis, the Humber | ||
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