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| Name | Endymion (1797) | Explanation | |
| Type | Fourth rate | ||
| Launched | 29 March 1797 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 1277 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 50 | ||
| Fate | 1868 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1860 h.s. | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 18 June 1833 - 1837 | Commanded by Captain Samuel Roberts, Mediterranean, and Lisbon | ||
| 31 October 1840 - 26 October 1843 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain Frederick William Grey, East Indies (including the first Anglo-Chinese war) | ||
| 14 December 1845 - 18 March 1847 | Commanded by Captain George Robert Lambert, North America and West Indies | ||
| 23 January 1847 - 3 August 1847 | Commanded by Captain George William Conway Courtenay, North America and West Indies | ||
| 3 August 1847 - 18 January 1848 | Commanded by Captain George Fowler Hastings, North America and West Indies | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Fr 5 February 1841 | Portsmouth.— An augmentation of the Royal Marine Corps has been ordered, report says, to the extent of 3,000 men, which is strongly indicative of a further increase to the navy in the spring. Several splendid ships at the different ports are silently, but expeditiously, being completed for commission. The Vindictive, and Warspite, 50-gun ships, are ordered for commission at this port, as soon as ready. The former is said to be intended for the Lisbon command, with a Commodore's pendant. Rear-Admiral Sir Edward King, K.C.B., reached Rio de Janeiro in the Southampton frigate, from Plymouth on the 14th of November, and was to proceed to the Pacific in about ten days, to succeed Rear-Admiral Ross, C.B., who will return to England in the President frigate, and may be expected home about April next. The Inconstant, 36, Captain Pring, has received orders to proceed to the Mediterranean, it is reported to supply the place of the Pique, 36, ordered home to be docked, &c. She was to leave Plymouth on Tuesday for Malta, taking out between 300 and 400 volunteer seamen for disposal in the fleet. The Endymion frigate, Captain the Hon. F.W. Grey, is under orders for the East Indies, to join Rear-Admiral Elliott's squadron, for whom she will take despatches and supernumeraries for the squadron. The corvette Tweed, 20, Commander Douglas, has bent sails, and is waiting Admiralty orders. It is said she will proceed to the South American station. The corvette Iris, 26, Captain Nurse, has left Spithead for service on the coast of Africa. She took despatches for the senior officer there. It is reported that the Andromache, 26, Captain Baynes, is to go to the East Indies from the Cape of Good Hope. The steamer Lizard, Lieutenant Estcourt, will leave this harbour to-morrow, for the Mediterranean, taking despatches for Sir Robert Stopford. The brig Pelican, 16, Commander Napier, is waiting Admiralty orders at Spithead; she is in want of several petty officers to complete her crew. The Monarch, 84, Captain Chambers, will be at Spithead, according to a private letter, on the 8th instant, from Sheerness.— Brighton Gazette. | ||
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