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| Home-Loney-Background-The Royal Navy | Browse mid-Victorian RN vessels: A; B; C; D; E - F; G - H; I - L; M; N - P; Q - R; S; T - U; V - Z; ?? |
| Name | Plumper | Explanation | |
| Type | Sloop | ||
| Launched | 5 April 1848 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 140 feet |
| Propulsion | Screw | Men | 100 |
| Builders measure | 490 tons | ||
| Displacement | 652 tons | ||
| Guns | 8 | ||
| Fate | 1865 | Last in commission | 1861 |
| Class | |||
| Ships book | ADM 135/369 | ||
| Career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 5 April 1848 | Launched at Portsmouth Dockyard. | ||
| 6 November 1848 - 6 January 1853 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth until paying off at Portsmouth) by Commander Mathew Stainton Nolloth, Sir Charles Napier squadrons, then (January 1849) North America and West Indies, then (June 1851) south-east coast of America | ||
| 1 August 1853 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Commander John Anthony Lawrence Wharton, west coast of Africa | ||
| 5 April 1855 - 9 December 1856 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Commander William Henry Haswell, west coast of Africa | ||
| (10 December 1856) - January 1861 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Captain George Henry Richards, surveying on the Canadian Pacific coast (the Fraser River, Burrard Inlet, Victoria and Esquimalt), until relieved by Hecate | ||
| January 1861 - 2 July 1861 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Commander Anthony Hiley Hoskins, returning from the Pacific (after being relieved by Hecate) | ||
| 2 June 1865 | Sold to White, Cowes. | ||
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