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| William Loney RN - Background |
| Home-Loney-Background-The Royal Navy | Browse mid-Victorian RN vessels: A; B; C; D; E - F; G - H; I - L; M; N - P; Q - R; S; T - U; V - Z; ?? |
| Name | Amphitrite | Explanation | |
| Type | 5th rate | ||
| Launched | 14 April 1816 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 1064 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 46 | ||
| Fate | 1875 | ||
| Class | Leda | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1846 24 gun 6th rate. 1862 lent to contractors at Plymouth | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 29 April 1816 - February 1817 | Commanded by Acting Captain James Hanway Plumridge | ||
| (January 1840) | Out of commission at Portsmouth | ||
| 13 July 1847 - 11 January 1850 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Rodney Eden, west coast of Africa, then Pacific (until he died at Mazatlan) | ||
| 13 December 1850 | Commanded by Captain Charles Frederick, Pacific (including 1854 Anglo-French squadron during the Russian War) | ||
| 6 December 1854 | Commanded by Captain Richard Burridge, Pacific | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| (various) | The 1846 Experimental squadron. | ||
| Th 15 July 1847 | 14 July 1847 The Amphitrite, 26, was commissioned at this port this morning by the appointment to her of Captain T.R. Eden (1844). She is to have a compliment of 240 men, which, we imagine, she will not be long in picking up, men having a strong feeling in favour of small vessels of this class, and Captain Eden being a highly esteemed and generally liked officer. The Amphitrite was a 42-gun frigate, built at Bombay in 1816, after the lines of the French Leda. She is of 1,064 tons, and will carry a very heavy armament. This is her first commission as a razee corvette. | ||
| Fr 17 September 1847 | 16 September 1847 The Amphitrite, 25, Captain T.R. Eden, and the Trincomalee, 25, Captain Warren, will be paid to-morrow or Saturday, and sail on Sunday on a trial cruize, The Commander-in-Chief, Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., had appointed today for the inspection of the Trincomalee, but, in consequence of the boisterous state of the weather, has deferred it till to-morrow. | ||
| Ma 20 September 1847 | 18 September 1847 Two months' wages in advance were paid yesterday to the crews of the Amphitrite, 25, Captain T.R. Eden; Trincomalee, 25, Captain R.L. Warren; and Fury, steam-sloop, Commander J. Wilcox, and these vessels will sail early in the ensuing week. The Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., inspected the Trincomalee, 25, Captain R.L. Warren, and the Fury, steam-sloop, Commander J. Wilcox yesterday. | ||
| We 22 September 1847 | 21 September 1847 The Amphitrite, 25, Captain T.R. Eden and the Trincomalee, 25, Captain R.L. Warren, got under weigh after dinner this day and proceeded to join Sir C. Napier's squadron [at Lisbon], in which they will be well tried before proceeding to their destinations - the formed to relieve the Actæon on the coast of Africa, and the latter for the West Indies. They call at Plymouth for letters. | ||
| Th 23 September 1847 | 22 September 1847 The Amphitrite, 25, Captain T.R. Eden and Trincomalee, 25, Captain R.S. Warren, put back last evening to St Helen's. in consequence of the weather coming in thick, and anchored for the night. They sailed this morning soon after daylight. | ||
| Ma 27 September 1847 | 26 September 1847 The Amphitrite and Trincomalee arrived in Plymouth and on Friday embarked the supernumeries for their respective stations, and put to sea the same evening for Sir Charles Napier's squadron. | ||
| Ma 6 May 1850 | 5 May 1850 The West India and Pacific mail has brought us letters from the latter station, and one from Mazatlan, dated March 8, of which the following is the substance: The Inconstant, 36 Captain Sheppard, is here. She arrived as St Blas on the 18th of February. On the 21st the Amphitrite, 24, Captain Walker (acting), made her appearance there from Mazatlan. The Inconstant left St Blas on the 22d, and arrived at Mazatlan on the 24th, where she found the Cockatrice schooner, and on the 27th dispatched her to Guyamas to look for freight. The Amphitrite was to take in about $1,000,000 at St Blas, and then call at Mazatlan (about 150 or 200 miles to the southward) where they expected about $250,000 more; if they embark this then will carry home about $ 1,500,000. | ||
| Ma 3 June 1850 | 2 June 1850 The Royal mail steamer Great Western, Captain H.J. Wolfe, arrived here at 2 p.m. this day with the usual British and foreign West India mails, in charge of Lieutenant Davies, R.N., Admiralty agent. ...The Great Western also brings mails of the following dates from the west coast of South America, received at Panama by the British Steam Navigation Company's ship Bolivia, which vessel had on board treasure, value $570,000, for transmission to England:- Valparaiso (Chili) ...... March 30 … At Valparaiso exchange on London was quoted 46; Hamburgh, 40; United States, 7 per cent, premium. Her Majesty's sloop Daedalus sailed on the 27th March for Callao and Panama. Captain Eden of her Majesty's ship Amphitrite, died at Mazatlan of fever, and Captain Mcdougal, late of Asia, succeeded him in the command of the Amphitrite, which ship was daily expected at Valparaiso from Mexico, with a freight [of specie, I assume] of upwards of $2,000,000 for England. | ||
| Ma 22 July 1850 | 21 July 1850 The Amphitrite, 25, Acting-Captain Macdougall, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning, from the Pacific, with $1,582,514 and 1,500 L worth of jewels, freight on merchant's account. She sailed from Valparaiso on 1st May, and Rio de Janeiro, on the 9th of June.... She came into harbour yesterday evening, and was hauled along side the dockyard, for the beter facility of landing her freight, which will be got out to-morrow and conveyed to London by Mr. Robertson, of the firm of Shaw, Maxwell and Co. the freight agents. The ship will be paid off. | ||
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