Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Castor

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Name	Castor	Explanation
Type	5th rate
Launched	2 May 1832
Hull	Wooden
Propulsion	Sail
Builders measure	1293 tons
Displacement	1808 tons
Guns	26
Fate	1902
Class
Ships book
Note	1860 t.s.
Snippets concerning this vessels career
Date	Event
2 May 1832 - September 1832	Commanded by Captain Richard Grant, Chatham
September 1832 - November 1836	Commanded by Captain Lord John Hay, frigate (Present at blockade of Dutch ports in "Belgian question" in Dec. Later as Commodore of British fleet intervening in Spanish civil war)
3 April 1837 - 31 July 1841	Commanded (until paying off at Sheerness) by Captain Edward Collier, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840)
28 April 1843 - 16 November 1847	Commanded (from commissioning at Chatham until paying off at Chatham) by Captain Charles Graham, East Indies
7 May 1849 - 12 February 1853	Commanded (from commissioning at Chatham until paying off at Chatham) by Commodore Christopher Wyvill, Cape of Good Hope
18 June 1855 - 1 January 1856	Commanded (from commissioning at Chatham) by Lieutenant commander Charles Octavius Wood, to the Cape of Good Hope to serve as Comodore's flagship
1 January 1856 - 1 April 1857	Commanded by Commodore Henry Dundas Trotter, Commander-in-chief, Cape of Good Hope
6 April 1857 - 2 August 1858	Commanded (until paying off at Chatham) by Captain Henry Lyster, Cape of Good Hope
16 January 1860	Commanded by Commander John Palmer, training ship, Royal Naval Reserve, Shields