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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 | Megaera | Explanation | |
| Type | Frigate | ||
| Launched | 22 May 1849 | ||
| Hull | Iron | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | 1391 tons | ||
| Displacement | 2025 tons | ||
| Guns | |||
| Fate | 1871 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | ADM 135/306 | ||
| Note | Not commissioned as frigate. 1852 troopship. 1871.06.19 beached St Pauls Island, Indian Ocean as unseaworthy | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 17 May 1851 - 7 June 1851 | Commanded (from commissioning) by Master commander George Hoffmeister, to carry Captain Faddy's and Captain St. George's companies of the Royal Artillery to the Cape of Good Hope, but she broke down and had to be towed back to Sheerness, where she was replace by the Cyclops | ||
| 18 December 1851 | Commanded by Master commander John Clark Barlow, to take Colonel George Buller and men of the 1st Battalion of the Rifle Beigade to the Cape of Good Hope | ||
| 2 July 1852 - 1856 | Commanded by Commander John Ormsby Johnson | ||
| 20 December 1856 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Commander George Thomas Maitland Purvis | ||
| 10 March 1860 - April 1860 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Commander James Hunt, Portsmouth | ||
| 2 April 1860 - 25 March 1863 | Commanded by Commander Samuel Hood Henderson | ||
| 20 April 1863 | Commanded by Commander Edward Madden | ||
| 18 January 1865 - 21 November 1866 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain Montagu Buccleuch Dunn | ||
| 19 November 1866 - 21 December 1867 | Commanded (until paying off at Woolwich) by Captain James Simpson | ||
| 12 February 1868 | Commanded by Staff-commander Henry D. Sarratt | ||
| (22 December 1868) | Commanded by Staff-Commander Jabez Loane | ||
| 31 January 1871 - 19 June 1871 | Commanded by Captain Arthur Thomas Thrupp, until beached at St. Pauls Island in an unseaworthy state | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| (various) | Beaching on St Paul's Island in the Indian Ocean and the subsequent Court-Martial and investigation by a Royal Commission | ||
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