Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Dolphin

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Name	Dolphin	Explanation
Type	Brigantine
Launched	14 June 1836
Hull	Wooden
Propulsion	Sail
Builders measure	319 tons
Displacement
Guns	3
Fate	1894
Class
Ships book
Note	1861 Customs w.v.
Snippets concerning this vessels career
Date	Event
12 September 1837	Commanded by Lieutenant commander John Macdougall, west coast of Africa
2 August 1838 - 1840	Commanded by Lieutenant commander Edward Holland, west coast of Africa
4 March 1840 - 4 May 1842	Commanded by Lieutenant commander Edward Littlehales, west coast of Africa (ship's log)
5 May 1842 - 21 July 1842	Commanded by Act. Lieutenant commander Octavius Cumberland, west coast of Africa
22 July 1842 - 19 October 1842	Commanded by Act. Lieutenant commander Philip Bisson, west coast of Africa (until he died)
25 May 1843 - 6 February 1845	Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Lieutenant commander William O'Bryen Hoare, south-east coast of America
7 February 1845	Commanded by Lieutenant commander Reginald Thomas John Levinge, south-east coast of America
November 1845 - 4 March 1847	Commanded (until paying off at Sheerness) by Lieutenant commander William Stewart Miller, south-east coast of America
19 September 1847	Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Lieutenant commander Robert Francis Boyle, west coast of Africa
1 June 1850	Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Lieutenant commander Henry Temple, west coast of Africa
6 August 1853	Commanded by Lieutenant commander Edmund Webber, west coast of Africa