Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Falcon

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Name	Falcon	Explanation
Type	Sloop
Launched	10 August 1854
Hull	Wooden	Length	160 feet
Propulsion	Screw	Men
Builders measure	748 tons
Displacement	1139 tons
Guns	17
Fate	1869	Last in commission	1868
Class		Class (as screw)	Cruizer
Ships book	ADM 135/166
Career
Date	Event
10 August 1854	Launched at Pembroke Dockyard.
7 February 1855 - 10 May 1856	Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Commander William John Samuel Pullen, Portsmouth, then the Baltic during the Russian War
10 May 1856 - 25 August 1857	Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Commander Hubert Campion, North America and West Indies
4 May 1859 - 9 January 1861	Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Commander Arthur George Fitzroy, west coast of Africa (until Fitzroy died)
(10 January 1861) - 6 October 1862	Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Commander Algernon Charles Fieschi Heneage, west coast of Africa
22 October 1863 - 16 April 1866	Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Commander George Henry Parkin, Australia (during the New Zealand War)
16 April 1866 - 12 June 1866	Commanded by Commander Arthur Rodney Owen, Australia
12 June 1866 - 19 September 1867	Commanded by Commander William Hans Blake, Australia
19 September 1867 - 3 October 1868	Commanded (until paying off at Woolwich) by Commander Henry Legge Perceval, Australia
27 September 1869	Sold to C. Marshall for breaking up at Plymouth.