Name | Perseus | Explanation |
Type | Sloop (1862: Corvette) |
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Launched | 21 August 1861 |
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Hull | Wooden |
Length | 185 feet |
Propulsion | Screw |
Men | 180 |
Builders measure | 955 tons |
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Displacement | 1365 tons |
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Guns | 17 |
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Fate | 1931 |
Last in commission | 1869 |
Class | Camelion |
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Ships book | |
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Career |
Date | Event |
21 August 1861 | Launched at Pembroke Dockyard |
28 September 1862 - 21 November 1864 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Commander Augustus John Kingston, China (including the bombardments of Kagoshima and Simonoseki) |
21 November 1864 - 22 January 1866 | Commanded (until paying off) by Commander Charles Edward Stevens, China |
23 January 1866 - 24 October 1869 | Commanded (from commissioning until paying off) by Commander Charles Edward Stevens, China |
(1879) | Used for scrubbing hammocks &c. for Cambridge, Devonport |
(1890) | Attached to Defiance for torpedo instructional purposes, Devonport |
1904 | Renamed Defiance II |
26 June 1931 | Sold |
Extracts from the Times newspaper |
Date | Extract |
1863 | The Anglo-Japanese hostilities of 1863-1864. |