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| Name | Barracouta (1851) | Explanation | |
| Type | Sloop | ||
| Launched | 31 March 1851 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 1053 tons | ||
| Displacement | 1676 tons | ||
| Guns | 6 | ||
| Fate | 1881 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | |||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| June 1852 - September 1852 | Trial cruise under command of Captain Swynfen Thomas Carnegie, of Horatio, guard ship, Sheerness | ||
| 18 December 1852 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Commander George Parker, East Indies | ||
| 4 March 1855 - 28 September 1855 | Commanded by Commander Frederick Henry Stirling, Russian coast during the Russian War | ||
| 4 April 1855 - 21 August 1857 | Commanded by Commander Thomas Dyce Acland Fortescue, East Indies (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) | ||
| 28 May 1860 | Commanded by Commander William Wood, North America and West Indies | ||
| 24 August 1861 | Commanded by Commander George John Malcolm, North America and West Indies | ||
| 13 November 1863 - 23 November 1864 | Commanded (until paying off at Sheerness) by Commander John D'Arcy, North America and West Indies | ||
| 15 March 1866 - 22 April 1866 | Commanded by Commander William Brabazon Urmston | ||
| 14 April 1866 | Commanded by Commander George Dacres Bevan, North America and West Indies | ||
| 10 March 1873 - 29 June 1874 | Commanded by Captain Hon. Edmund Robert Fremantle, west coast of Africa (in command of a squadron of seven small vessels at Cape Coast Castle) | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Fr 31 July 1857 | The Himalaya steam troopship, Commander Haswell, arrived at Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, on the 24th of May from St. Vincent's, followed on the 28th by the Transit steam troopship, Commander Chambers, from the same place, which she left 24 hours before the Himalaya, which we are informed has lost many of her crew and soldiers by desertion. The Transit had lost four. One man, a quartermaster of the Himalaya, in attempting to leave the ship on the night of the 2d of June to swim ashore was drowned. The Penelope, 28, paddle frigate, Captain Sir William Wiseman, arrived at Simon's Bay from the Mauritius on the evening of the 3d of June, all well, closely followed by the Barracouta, 6, Commander Fortescue, from China. The Himalaya left Simon's Bay on the morning of the 3d of June at 11 o'clock, and went out of the bay beautifully. She was followed on the nest morning by the Transit, which disembarked 1 officer, 30 men, 1 woman, and 2 children of the Royal Engineer corps on the morning of the 29th of May, who proceeded to Cape Town. | ||
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