| Name | Sampson | Explanation |
| Type | 2nd class frigate |
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| Launched | 1 October 1844 |
| Hull | Wooden |
| Propulsion | Paddle |
| Builders measure | 1299 tons |
| Displacement | 2100 tons |
| Guns | 4 |
| Fate | 1864 |
| Class | |
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| Note | |
| Snippets concerning this vessels career |
| Date | Event |
| 8 December 1845 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Henderson (Woolwich), Pacific |
| 24 December 1850 | Commanded by Captain Lewis Tobias Jones, west coast of Africa, then Mediterranean (and Black Sea during the Russian War) |
| 18 November 1854 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Saumarez Brock, Mediterranean |
| 22 October 1855 | Commanded by Captain George Sumner Hand, East Indies and China (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) |
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