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| Name | Centaur (1845) | Explanation | |
| Type | 2nd class frigate | ||
| Launched | 6 October 1845 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 1270 tons | ||
| Displacement | 2100 tons | ||
| Guns | 6 | ||
| Fate | 1864 | ||
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| Note | |||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 1 January 1849 - 1850 | Commanded by Captain Claude Henry Mason Buckle, flagship of Commodore Arthur Fanshawe, west coast of Africa (until Buckle was invalided) | ||
| 1 January 1850 - 30 June 1851 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Commander Frederick Patten, flagship of Commodore Arthur Fanshawe, west coast of Africa | ||
| 23 July 1851 - 16 September 1853 | Commanded by Captain Edward St Leger Cannon, flagship of William Willmott Henderson, south-east coast of America | ||
| 21 September 1853 - 6 May 1854 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Thomas Harvey, flagship of Rear-Admiral William Willmott Henderson on the South-east coast of America station | ||
| 2 February 1855 | Commanded by Captain William John Cavendish Clifford, Mediterranean, then the Baltic during the Russian War | ||
| 20 September 1859 - 21 July 1861 | Commanded by Commander Elphinstone D'Oyly D'Auvergne Aplin, East Indies and China (including British involvement in Taiping rebellion) | ||
| 20 March 1861 - 17 May 1863 | Commanded by Commander John Eglinton Montgomerie, East Indies and China (including British involvement in Taiping rebellion) | ||
| 15 January 1863 | Commanded by Acting Commander John Zell Creasy, East Indies and China | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Th 21 June 1849 | Wednesday The Pantaloon, 8, Commander Lewis de Teissier Prevost, arrived at Spithead this afternoon from the coast of Africa. She has not been 12 months in commission yet. She sailed from Ascension on the 1st of May, leaving the Centaur steam-frigate, bearing the Commodore, and the Tortoise store-ship the only men-of-war there. Sailed from Sierra Leone on the 13th of May. She has brought home the mail intended for the Contest, which would not sail homewards until the 1st of Jane, and the following officers Mr. Byford, Master of the Philomel, and Dr. Belcher, surgeon, of the Tortoise, invalided; also Mr. Buck and the prize crew of the Grappler, put on board the last capture made by that vessel on the passage home. | ||
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