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| Name | Medusa (1838) | Explanation | |
| Type | Packet | ||
| Launched | 31 October 1838 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 889 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | |||
| Fate | 1872 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | ADM 135/305 | ||
| Note | |||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 8 August 1839 - July 1844 | Commanded by Lieutenant John Phillips Philipps, Liverpool | ||
| 13 July 1844 | Commanded by Lieutenant James Grant Raymond, Liverpool | ||
| 17 May 1848 | Commanded by Lieutenant John Oldenshaw Bathurst, Mediterranean | ||
| 15 February 1855 | Commanded by Lieutenant William Andrew James Heath, the Black Sea during the Russian War | ||
| 7 January 1856 - 19 July 1856 | Commanded by Captain Sherard Osborn, senior offcier in the Sea of Azov during the Russian War | ||
| 1 August 1856 - 15 March 1857 | Commanded by Commander Henry James Raby, west coast of Africa | ||
| 18 March 1857 | Commanded by Commander William Bowden, west coast of Africa | ||
| 1 September 1863 | Commanded by Master commander John Hillary Allard, Sheerness | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Ma 2 January 1865 | The screw steamship Achilles, 20, Capt. E.W. Vansittart, attended by the paddlewheel steam-vessel Medusa, arrived In Plymouth Sound at 10 yesterday morning. She will probably go into the North or Queen's Dock at Keyham, as the New Long Dock at Devonport, in which she was last placed, is now occupied by the Prince Consort. | ||
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