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 | ||
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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) |