These tables show all vessels carried on the books of the Royal Navy in the period 1840-1880.
Name | Launched | Fate | H. | P. | Type | B.M. | Disp. | Guns | S.B. | Note |
Sabine | 1916r | See: Sabrina 1876 | ||||||||
Sabrina | 1876.10.03 | 1922 | I | S | Flatiron gunboat | 363 | 3 | 1916 = Sabine, diving tender | ||
Safeguard | 1849 | 1862 | W | - | Coastguard hulk (brig) | |||||
Salamander | 1832.05.16 | 1883 | W | P | 2nd class sloop | 818 | 1014 | 4 | ||
Salamis | 1863.05.19 | 1873 | W | P | Dispatch vessel | 835 | 985 | 2 | 412 | |
Samarang | 1822.01.01 | 1883 | W | W | Sixth rate | 500 | 28 | 1847 guardship | ||
Sampson | 1844.10.01 | 1864 | W | P | 2nd class frigate | 1299 | 2100 | 4 | ||
Sampson | 1877.01.31 | 1923 | I | P | Tug | 375 | 530 | 0 | 1918=Orient | |
San Josef | 1797.02a | 1849 | W | W | First rate | 2457 | 114 | 1797.02.14 captured at St Vincent (Spanish). 1839 gunnery training ship | ||
Sandfly | 1855.09.01 | 1867 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 4 | 413 | ||
Sandfly | 1872.12.05 | 1883 | W | W | Survey schooner | 120 | 1 | |||
Sans Pareil | 1794a | 1842 | W | W | Third rate | 2245 | 80 | 1796.06.01 captured from the French. 1810 sheer hulk | ||
Sans Pareil | 1851.03.18 | 1867 | W | S | Third rate | 2339 | 3800 | 70 | 414 | Converted to screw on stocks |
Sapphire | 1827.01.31 | 1864 | W | W | Sixth rate | 604 | 28 | |||
Sapphire | 1874.09.24 | 1892 | W | S | Corvette | 1405 | 1970 | 14 | ||
Sappho | 1837.02.03 | 1858 | W | W | Brig-sloop | 428 | 16 | Foundered on Australian station | ||
Sappho | 1873.11.20 | 1887 | C | S | Sloop | 727 | 940 | 4 | Launched 1873.10.20 | |
Saracen | 1831.01.30 | 1862 | W | W | Brig-sloop | 228 | 10 | 1854 survey vessel | ||
Saracen | 1862r | See: Young Queen 1862 | ||||||||
Satellite | 1826.10.02 | 1849 | W | W | Sloop | 456 | 18 | |||
Satellite | 1855.09.26 | 1879 | W | S | Corvette | 1462 | 2189 | 21 | 415 | |
Saturn | 1786.11.26 | 1868 | W | W | Third rate | 1646 | 74 | 1813.12 58 gun 4th rate. 1825.09 h.s. | ||
Savage | 1830.12.29 | 1866 | W | W | Brig-sloop | 227 | 10 | 1853 dockyard chain lighter | ||
Savage | 1856.05.05 | 1888 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 4 | 416 | 1864 =YC.3, mooring vessel | |
Scorpion | 1832.07.28 | 1874 | W | W | Brig-sloop | 228 | 10 | 1848 survey vessel. 1858 lent Thames police | ||
Scorpion | 1863.10a | 1903 | I | S | Masted turret ship | 1857 | 2751 | 4 | 417 | 1863.07.04 launched as El Tousson (Turkish) but intended for US Confederate navy. Siezed and purchased. 1869 guard ship. Foundered on passage after sale |
Scotia | 1863.11a | 1898 | W | P | Tug | 268 | 0 | 418 | ex-mercantile, launched 1863.06.20 | |
Scourge | 1844.11.09 | 1865 | W | P | 1st class sloop | 1124 | 6 | 419 | ||
Scourge | 1871.03.25 | 1930 | I | S | Flatiron gunboat | 254 | 1 | 420 | 1904 = C.79, tank vessel | |
Scout | 1832.06.15 | 1852 | W | W | Sloop | 488 | 18 | |||
Scout | 1856.12.30 | 1877 | W | S | Corvette | 2187 | 21 | |||
Scylla | 1809.06.29 | 1846 | W | W | Brig-sloop | 385 | 18 | |||
Scylla | 1856.06.19 | 1882 | W | S | Corvette | 1467 | 2189 | 21 | ||
Seaflower | 1830.05.20 | 1866 | W | W | Cutter | 116 | 4 | |||
Seaflower | 1873.02.25 | 1908 | W | S | Training brig | 425 | 454 | 8 | 1836 Symonds design | |
Seagull | 1831.11.21 | 1852 | W | W | Schooner | 279 | 6 | |||
Seagull | 1855.06.04 | 1864 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 4 | 421 | ||
Seagull | 1868.03.06 | 1887 | W | S | Gunvessel | 663 | 805 | 3 | 422 | |
Seahorse | 1830.07.21 | 1902 | W | W | Fifth rate | 1215 | 46 | 1847 screw frigate. 1856 screw mortar frigate. 1870 = Lavinia, c.h. | ||
Seahorse | 1880.07.07 | 1920 | S | S | Tug | 319 | 521 | 3 | "Steel twin screw special service steamer" | |
Sealark | 1843.07.27 | 1898 | W | W | Brig | 319 | 10 | 1853 training brig | ||
Security | 1785.03.10 | 1852 | W | W | Storeship | 142 | 18?? dockyard service | |||
Semiramis | 1808.07.25 | 1844 | W | W | Fifth rate | 944 | 36 | |||
Sepoy | 1856.02.13 | 1868 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 4 | 423 | ||
Serapis | 1866.09.02 | 1894 | I | S | Troopship | 4173 | 6211 | 3 | ||
Seringapatam | 1819.09.05 | 1873 | W | W | Fifth rate | 1152 | 46 | 1847 r.s. 1852 c.h. | ||
Serpent | 1832.07.14 | 1861 | W | W | Brig-sloop | 434 | 16 | 1857 target | ||
Serpent | 1860.06.23 | 1875 | W | S | Gunvessel | 695 | 877 | 4 | 424 | |
Severn | 1856.01.24 | 1876 | W | W | Fourth rate | 1944 | 50 | 425 | 1860 screw frigate | |
Shah | 1873.09.10 | 1919 | I | S | Unarmoured frigate | 4210 | 6250 | 26 | 51 | Laid down as Blonde. 1904 = C.470 c.h. Sold 1919 and wrecked at Bermuda in 1926 |
Shamrock | 1812.08.08 | 1867 | W | W | Gun-brig | 180 | 12 | 1831 h.s. 1863 = WV.18, Coastguard watch vessel | ||
Shamrock | 1856.03.13 | 1867 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 4 | 426 | ||
Shannon | 1806.05.05 | 1859 | W | W | Fifth rate | 1066 | 38 | 1844 = St Laurence | ||
Shannon | 1855.11.24 | 1871 | W | S | Frigate | 2667 | 3636 | 51 | ||
Shannon | 1875.11.11 | 1899 | I | S | Frigate | 5390 | 15 | 1883 Coastguard. 1893 reserve | ||
Sharpshooter | 1846.07.25 | 1869 | I | S | Gunvessel | 503 | 625 | 9 | 427 | |
Shearwater | 1837a | 1857 | W | P | Packet | 343 | Transferred from Post Office, ex-Dolphin | |||
Shearwater | 1861.10.17 | 1877 | W | S | Sloop | 669 | 811 | 11 | ||
Sheerness | 1863.06a | 1906 | W | P | Tug | 233 | 0 | 429 | ex-Scotia, launched 1859.08.13 | |
Sheldrake | 1825.05.19 | 1855 | W | W | Brig-sloop | 228 | 10 | |||
Sheldrake | 1855.09.01 | 1865 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 4 | 428 | ||
Sheldrake | 1875.07.03 | 1906 | C | S | Gunboat | 455 | 4 | 1888 = Drake, drill ship. 1893 = WV.29. 1906 = Drake | ||
Sheppey | 1856r | See: Drake 1834 | ||||||||
Sidon | 1846.05.26 | 1864 | W | P | 1st class frigate | 1329 | 8 | |||
Simoom | 1849.05.24 | 1887 | I | S | Frigate | 1980 | 2920 | 20 | 430 | Not commissioned as frigate. 1852 troopship |
Simoom | 1904r | See: Monarch 1868 | ||||||||
Sinbad | 1834.02.27 | 1866 | W | W | Dockyard lighter | 109 | 1854 mortar vessel. 1855 = MV.2 1856 = Sinbad, YC.3 | |||
Sir Edward Hughes | 1806a | 1863 | W | W | Fifth rate | 962 | 38 | ex-East Indiaman, purchased 1804. 1807 = Tortoise, storeship 22. 1824 c.h. 1841 store hulk. Stated to be broken up in 1863, but apparently still present in 1869 (see court-martial of Arthur Wilmshurst). | ||
Siren | 1841.04.23 | 1868 | W | W | Brig | 549 | 16 | |||
Sirius | 1813.09.11 | 1862 | W | W | Fifth rate | 1090 | 38 | 1860 target | ||
Sirius | 1868.04.24 | 1885 | W | S | Sloop (1876: Corvette) | 1760 | 6 | |||
Skipjack | 1827.08 | 1841 | W | W | Schooner | 118 | 3 | 1841.06.01 wrecked in Cayman islands | ||
Skipjack | 1855.08.04 | 1879 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 4 | 431 | 1874 hulk | |
Skylark | 1826.05.06 | 1845 | W | W | Packet brig | 234 | 4 | 1845.04.25 wrecked on Kimmeridge Ledge | ||
Skylark | 1855.05.03 | 1906 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 3 | |||
Slaney | 1857.03.17 | 1870 | W | S | Gunboat | 301 | 3 | 432 | 1870.05.09 wrecked in typhoon near Hong Kong | |
Slaney | 1877.04.28 | 1923 | I | S | Flatiron gunboat | 363 | 3 | 1906 diving bell tender | ||
Snake | 1832.05.03 | 1847 | W | W | Brig-sloop | 434 | 16 | 1847.08.29 wrecked in Mozambique Channel | ||
Snake | 1854.09.06 | 1864 | W | S | Gunvessel | 477 | 2 | 433 | ||
Snake | 1871.03.25 | 19?? | I | S | Flatiron gunboat | 254 | 1 | 434 | 1907 = YC.15, dockyard cable lighter | |
Snap | 1847a | 1848 | Steam transport | ex-slaver Cacique, captured and purchased | ||||||
Snap | 1855.02.03 | 1868 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 3 | 435 | 1868 resold to Japanese navy as Katu Ten Kan | |
Snap | 1872.12.11 | 1909 | I | S | Flatiron gunboat | 251 | 1 | 436 | ||
Snapper | 1813.09.27 | 1865 | W | W | Gun-brig | 184 | 12 | 1824 Coastguard | ||
Snapper | 1854.10.04 | 1906 | W | S | Gunboat | 216 | 284 | 4 | 437 | 1865 c.h. |
Snapper | 1914r | See: Mastiff 1871 | ||||||||
Snipe | 1801.05.02 | 1846 | W | W | Gun-brig | 185 | 12 | 1816 mooring lighter | ||
Snipe | 1828.06.28 | 1860 | W | W | Cutter | 122 | 6 | |||
Snipe | 1860.05.05 | 1868 | W | S | Gunvessel | 428 | 570 | 5 | 438 | |
Snipe | 1874.11.26 | 1914 | Coastguard vessel | 20 | 1914.02.03 foundered. Raised and sold | |||||
Sophia | 1850.05a | 1853 | Discovery vessel | 150 | Purchased | |||||
Soudan | 1840.06.08 | 1844 | I | P | Exploration vessel | 249 | 253 | 1 | 1844 wrecked on Nigerian coast | |
Southampton | 1820.11.07 | 1912 | W | W | Fourth rate | 1476 | 60 | 1867 lent as t.s. | ||
Spanker | 1856.03.22 | 1874 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 4 | 439 | ||
Sparrow | 1828.06.28 | 1860 | W | W | Cutter | 160 | 1844 survey ketch | |||
Sparrow | 1860.07.07 | 1868 | W | S | Gunvessel | 428 | 570 | 5 | 440 | |
Sparrowhawk | 1807.08.20 | 1841 | W | W | Brig-sloop | 385 | 18 | |||
Sparrowhawk | 1856.02.09 | 1872 | W | S | Gunvessel | 676 | 4 | 441 | ||
Spartan | 1841.08.16 | 1862 | W | W | Sixth rate | 911 | 26 | |||
Spartan | 1868.11.14 | 1882 | W | S | Sloop (1876: Corvette) | 1269 | 1755 | 6 | 442 | |
Spartiate | 1798.08a | 1857 | W | W | Third rate | 1949 | 74 | 1798.08.01 captured at the Nile (French). 1842 sheer hulk | ||
Speedwell | 1841.07a | 1855 | W | W | Survey cutter | 73 | Purchased | |||
Speedwell | 1861.02.12 | 1876 | W | S | Gunvessel | 570 | 5 | 443 | ||
Speedy | 1828.06.28 | 1866 | W | W | Cutter | 123 | 4 | 1853 = YC.11, mooring lighter | ||
Speedy | 1860.07.18 | 1889 | W | S | Gunboat | 268 | 330 | 2 | 444 | |
Spey | 1827.10.06 | 1840 | W | W | Packet brig | 231 | 4 | 1833 packet. 1840.11.28 wrecked on Racoon Key, Bahamas | ||
Spey | 1856.03.29 | 1863 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 4 | |||
Spey | 1876.10.05 | 1923 | I | S | Flatiron gunboat | 363 | 3 | |||
Sphinx | 1846.02.17 | 1881 | W | P | 1st class sloop | 1056 | 1611 | 6 | ||
Spider | 1835.09.23 | 1861 | W | W | Schooner | 183 | 6 | 1847 packet | ||
Spider | 1856.02.23 | 1870 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 4 | |||
Spiteful | 1842.03.24 | 1883 | W | P | 1st class sloop | 1054 | 1379 | 6 | ||
Spitfire | 1834.03.26 | 1842 | W | P | Vessel | 553 | 2 | 1842.09.10 wrecked Jamaica | ||
Spitfire | 1845.03.26 | 1888 | W | P | Gunvessel | 432 | 500 | 5 | 1851 survey vessel. 1862 tug | |
Sprightly | 1837a | 1889 | W | P | Packet | 234 | 445 | Launched 1823. Transferred from Post Office, ex-Harlequin | ||
Spy | 1841.04.24 | 1862 | W | W | Brigantine | 320 | 3 | |||
Squirrel | 1853.08.08 | 1879 | W | W | Brig-sloop | 428 | 12 | |||
Squirrel | 1866 | 1905 | Coastguard cutter | 40 | ||||||
St Columba | 1847.07a | 1850 | W | P | Packet | 720 | Purchased on stocks | |||
St George | 1840.08.27 | 1883 | W | W | First rate | 2693 | 120 | 454 | 1859 screw | |
St Jean d'Acre | 1853.03.23 | 1875 | W | S | Second rate | 3199 | 5499 | 101 | ||
St Laurence | 1844r | See: Shannon 1806 | ||||||||
St Vincent | 1815.03.11 | 1906 | W | W | First rate | 4672 | 120 | 1841 h.s. 1862 t.s. | ||
Stag | 1830.10.02 | 1866 | W | W | Fifth rate | 1218 | 46 | |||
Stag | 1861 | 1891 | W | W | Coastguard yawl | 120 | ||||
Star | 1835.04.29 | 1899 | W | W | Packet brig | 358 | 8 | 1857 Coastguard watch vessel. 1863 = WV.11 | ||
Star | 1860.12.15 | 1877 | W | S | Gunvessel | 695 | 4 | 446 | ||
Starling | 1829.10.31 | 1844 | W | W | Cutter | 108 | 4 | 1834 schooner, survey vessel | ||
Starling | 1855.02.01 | 1871 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 3 | 447 | ||
Staunch | 1856.01.31 | 1866 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 4 | 448 | Sold for mercantile service | |
Staunch | 1867.12.04 | 1904 | I | S | Gunboat | 200 | 1 | 449 | Prototype flatiron | |
Steady | 1860.02.08 | 1870 | W | S | Gunvessel | 570 | 5 | 450 | ||
Stirling Castle | 1811.12.31 | 1861 | W | W | Third rate | 1774 | 74 | 1839 convict ship | ||
Stork | 1855.04.07 | 1884 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 3 | 451 | 1874 c.h. | |
Stromboli | 1839.08.27 | 1866 | W | P | 1st class sloop | 970 | 1283 | 6 | 452 | |
Styx | 1841.01.26 | 1866 | W | P | 1st class sloop | 1054 | 1379 | 6 | 453 | |
Success | 1825.08.31 | 1849 | W | W | Sixth rate | 504 | 28 | 1832 h.s. | ||
Sulina | 1854.08a | 1856 | I | P | Vessel | Purchased | ||||
Sulphur | 1826.01.26 | 1857 | W | W | Bomb vessel | 375 | 10 | 1835 survey vessel. 1843 h.s. | ||
Sultan | 1807.09.19 | 1864 | W | W | Third rate | 1751 | 74 | 1860 r.s. then target | ||
Sultan | 1870.05.31 | 1946 | I | S | Central battery ironclad | 5234 | 9290 | 12 | 455 | Ships book ADM 136/50. 1906 = Fisgard IV. 1932 = Sultan, training hulk |
Sultan | 1932r | See: Sultan 1870 | ||||||||
Superb | 1842.09.06 | 1869 | W | W | Second rate | 2583 | 80 | |||
Superb | 1875.11.16 | 1906 | I | S | Central battery ironclad | 9170 | 16 | order by Turkey as Memduhie, later Hamidieh; purchased while building during Russian war scare | ||
Supply | 1854.06.03 | 1879 | I | S | Storeship | 638 | 1100 | 456 | Purchased on stocks | |
Surly | 1855.03.31 | 1863 | W | W | Mortar vessel | 117 | 1 | 1855 = MV.9 | ||
Surly | 1856.03.18 | 1869 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 4 | 457 | ||
Surprise | 1856.03.06 | 1866 | W | S | Gunvessel | 680 | 4 | 458 | ||
Sutlej | 1855.04.17 | 1869 | W | W | Fourth rate | 2066 | 50 | 459 | 1860 screw | |
Swallow | 1837.04a | 1848 | W | P | Packet | 133 | Transferred from Post Office, ex-Ferret | |||
Swallow | 1854.06.12 | 1866 | W | S | Sloop | 486 | 626 | 9 | 460 | |
Swallow | 1868.11.16 | 1882 | W | S | Gunvessel | 664 | 805 | 3 | 461 | |
Swan | 1811.11.01 | 1874 | W | W | Cutter | 144 | 10 | 1844 lent Church Mission Society | ||
Swan | 1856.04.12 | 1906 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 4 | 462 | 1869 hulk | |
Swift | 1835.11.21 | 1866 | W | W | Packet brig | 361 | 8 | 1861 = YC.3 mooring vessel | ||
Swift | 1879.11.29 | 1902 | C | S | Gunvessel | 788 | 5 | Sold at Hong Kong as Swift, later Hoi Ching | ||
Swiftsure | 1804.07.23 | 1845 | W | W | Third rate | 1724 | 74 | 1819.05 r.s. | ||
Swiftsure | 1870.06.15 | 1908 | I | S | Central battery ironclad | 3893 | 6910 | 14 | 463 | 1901 hulk. 1904 = Orontes |
Swinger | 1855.05.10 | 1864 | W | S | Gunboat | 232 | 3 | |||
Swinger | 1872.02.07 | 1924 | C | S | Gunboat | 295 | 430 | 4 | 464 | 1895 hulk |
Sybille | 1847.04.15 | 1866 | W | W | Fifth rate | 1633 | 36 | |||
Sydenham | 1841.11a | 1846 | P | Gunvessel | 596 | Purchased | ||||
Sylph | 1821.06.15 | 1888 | W | W | Tender | 114 | 1862 lent Customs as watch vessel | |||
Sylvia | 1827.03.24 | 1859 | W | W | Cutter | 70 | 5 | 1842 survey vessel | ||
Sylvia | 1866.03.20 | 1889 | W | S | Gunvessel | 695 | 865 | 4 | 1866.10 survey vessel |