Name | Comet | Explanation |
Type | Sloop |
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Launched | 11 August 1828 |
Hull | Wooden |
Propulsion | Sail |
Builders measure | 462 tons |
Displacement | |
Guns | 18 |
Fate | 1862 |
Class | |
Ships book | |
Note | 1832 = Comus |
Snippets concerning this vessels career |
Date | Event |
1832 | Renamed Comus |
9 May 1839 - 1841 | Commanded by Commander Evan Nepean, West Indies |
January 1842 - May 1842 | Commanded by Acting Commander George Evan Davis, West Indies |
(January 1843) | Out of commission at Chatham |
14 December 1844 - 9 November 1846 | Commanded by Commander Thomas Sparke Thompson, south-east coast of America |
(November 1845) | Commanded by Acting Commander Edward Augustus Inglefield, during the Anglo-French action in Uruguay |
17 November 1846 | Commanded by Commander Edwin Claton Tennyson D'Eyncourt, south-east coast of America |
3 May 1853 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Commander William Abdy Fellowes, East Indies |
23 July 1855 | Commanded by Commander Robert Jenkins, East Indies (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) |
30 December 1857 - 7 June 1858 | Commanded (until paying off at Chatham) by Commander Richard Dawkins, East Indies and China |