Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Hecate

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Name	Hecate	Explanation
Type	2nd class sloop
Launched	30 March 1839
Hull	Wooden
Propulsion	Paddle
Builders measure	817 tons
Displacement	1096 tons
Guns	4
Fate	1865
Class
Ships book
Note
Snippets concerning this vessels career
Date	Event
(January 1840)	Out of commission at Chatham
14 September 1840 - 23 August 1843	Commanded by Commander James Hamilton Ward, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840)
(October 1843)	Out of commission at Woolwich
11 June 1845 - 1847	Commanded by Commander Joseph West, west coast of Africa
14 September 1847 - 25 September 1848	Commanded by Commander Richard Moorman
20 September 1850	Commanded by Commander George Sumner Hand, particular service
10 September 1855 - January 1857	Commanded by Commander Alexander Duff Gordon, west coast of Africa (until Gordon Died)
13 February 1857 - 3 July 1858	Commanded (until paying off at Woolwich) by Commander George Foster Burgess, west coast of Africa
15 May 1860 - January 1861	Commanded by Commander Anthony Hiley Hoskins, Pacific (to replace Plumper)
1 September 1860 - 1863	Commanded by Captain George Henry Richards, surveying Vancover Island