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| Name | Ardent (1841) | Explanation | |
| Type | Sloop | ||
| Launched | 12 February 1841 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 800 tons | ||
| Displacement | 878 tons | ||
| Guns | 5 | ||
| Fate | 1865 | ||
| Class | Alecto | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | |||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 24 July 1841 - 1845 | Commanded by Commander John Russell, South America and African stations | ||
| 23 April 1846 | Commanded by Lieutenant George Spong, Mediterranean | ||
| 20 October 1847 - 26 April 1850 | Commanded (until paying off at Malta) by Lieutenant William Calmady Nowell, Mediterranean | ||
| 1 October 1854 - 15 October 1855 | Commanded by Lieutenant William Horton, Mediterranean and Black Sea during the Russian War | ||
| 7 December 1855 - 13 February 1856 | Commanded (until paying off at Woolwich) by Commander Hubert Campion, Mediterranean | ||
| 12 November 1857 - 7 April 1859 | Commanded (from commissioning at Woolwich until paying off at Woolwich) by Commander John Halliday Cave, west coast of Africa | ||
| 19 October 1859 - 5 August 1863 | Commanded (from commissioning at Woolwich) by Commander John Edward Parish, south-east coast of America | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Tu 5 February 1856 | The paddlewheel steamer Ardent, Commander Hubert Campion, arrived yesterday morning at Woolwich from the Black Sea Her term of commission having expired, she will be paid off and docked for repairs. The Ardent was engaged from the 24th of May to the 21st of November in the Sea of Azoff in the destruction of Russian forage and grain and in sinking and destroying vessels. She left Kertch on the 2Oth of December, Kazatch the 2d of January, and Constantinople on the 4th. | ||
| We 6 February 1856 | The paddlewheel steamer Ardent, Commander Hubert Campion, from the Black Sea, was yesterday morning warped into the outer basin at Woolwich, to be stripped, prior to commencing her repairs. | ||
| Th 14 February 1856 | The crews of Her Majesty's paddlewheel steamer Ardent, from the Black Sea, Commander Hubert Campion, were yesterday morning paid off at Woolwich. | ||
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