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| Name | Volcano (1836) | Explanation | |
| Type | Sloop | ||
| Launched | 29 June 1836 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 720 tons | ||
| Displacement | 1006 tons | ||
| Guns | 2 | ||
| Fate | 1894 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | ADM 135/501 | ||
| Note | 1854? 'floating factory' (repair ship) | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 14 May 1838 | Commanded by Lieutenant Joseph West, Mediterranean | ||
| 23 August 1841 | Commanded by Lieutenant Joseph West, North America and West Indies | ||
| 2 December 1841 | Commanded by Lieutenant Craven John Featherstone, Portsmouth | ||
| 1 October 1845 | Commanded by Lieutenant John Hay Crang, Mediterranean | ||
| 6 December 1850 | Commanded by Commander William Thomas Rivers, Devonport | ||
| 21 April 1851 | Commanded by Commander Robert Coote, west coast of Africa | ||
| 27 February 1855 | Commanded by 2nd Master commander James H. Ryan, Portsmouth | ||
| 17 March 1857 | Commanded by Master commander John M. Hockly, East Indies and China | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Ma 14 September 1840 | It appears that neither the Salamander nor Comet steam-vessels are to be paid off; they are equipping at Woolwich, with great despatch; they will be both at Spithead about the last week in September. The Medea will leave Woolwich on the 24th. The Vesuvius is fitting at Chatham for the Mediterranean. These four steam ships will increase Sir R. Stopford's force to 10 powerful steam-vessels of war, he having already the Gorgon, Cyclops, Phoenix, Rhadamanthus, Hydra, and Stromboli; and to which there are several steamers already fitted for guns, &c., employed in the conveyance of the mails, such as the Acheron, Volcano, Prometheus, Megaera, Alecto, &c. | ||
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