Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Peterel

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Name	Peterel	Explanation
Type	Sloop
Launched	10 November 1860
Hull	Wooden	Length	160 feet
Propulsion	Screw	Men	140
Builders measure	669 tons
Displacement	847 tons
Guns	11
Fate	1901	Last in commission	1876
Class	Rosario
Ships book	ADM 135/357
Career
Date	Event
10 November 1860	Launched at Devonport Dockyard.
2 February 1862 - 20 February 1864	Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Commander George Willes Watson, North America and West Indies
20 February 1864 - 21 August 1865	Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Commander Edward Madden, North America and West Indies
2 June 1866 - 16 April 1868	Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Commander William Ebrington Gordon, Cape of Good Hope and east coast of Africa
16 April 1868 - 7 April 1870	Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Commander Ernest Grey Lambton Cochrane, Cape of Good Hope then (July 1869) west coast of Africa
1 March 1872	Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Commander Cecil George Sloane Stanley, Pacific
(May 1874) - 23 June 1876	Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Commander William Edgar De Crackenthorpe Cookson, Pacific
December 1877	Lightship.
(1879)	Coast of Ireland; lightship to mark the wreck of the 'Vanguard'.
December 1885	Coal depot.
October 1901	Sold.