Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Highflyer

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Name	Highflyer	Explanation
Type	Corvette (1852: Frigate)
Launched	13 August 1851
Hull	Wooden	Length	192 feet
Propulsion	Screw	Men
Builders measure	1153 tons
Displacement	1902 tons
Guns	21
Fate	1871	Last in commission	1868
Class		Class (as screw)	Highflyer
Ships book	ADM 135/232
Career
Date	Event
13 August 1851	Launched at C.J. Mare, Blackwall.
15 March 1852 - 14 December 1852	Commanded (from commissioning at Woolwich) by Captain Henry James Matson, North America and West Indies (until he died)
15 December 1852 - 1 April 1853	Commanded by Captain Edmund Heathcote, North Ameirca and West Indies
1 April 1853 - 7 June 1856	Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain John Moore, Mediterranean (and Black Sea during the Russian War)
1 August 1856 - 2 January 1860	Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Captain Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell, East Indies and China (present, during the 2nd Anglo-Chinese War), at capture of Canton in December 1857, and attack on Peiho forts on 25 June 1859, when a wound rendered him permanently lame)
2 January 1860 - 31 May 1861	Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Acting Captain William Andrew James Heath, East Indies and China
15 December 1864 - 31 August 1868	Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth until paying off) by Captain Thomas Malcolm Sabine Pasley, Cape of Good Hope and East Indies
May 1871	Broken up at Portsmouth.
*Extracts from the Times* newspaper**
Date	Extract
(various)	The 1844 Experimental squadron.
(various)	The 1853 Royal Naval review.