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| Name | Geyser (1841) | Explanation | |
| Type | 1st class sloop | ||
| Launched | 6 April 1841 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 1055 tons | ||
| Displacement | 1379 tons | ||
| Guns | 6 | ||
| Fate | 1866 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | ADM 135/192 | ||
| Note | |||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 13 December 1841 - 26 November 1845 | Commanded by Commander Edward John Carpenter, Mediterranean | ||
| 28 October 1846 | Commanded by Commander Francis Thomas Brown, Cape of Good Hope | ||
| 9 October 1850 - 5 December 1851 | Commanded by Commander Edward Tatham, south east coast of America | ||
| 11 May 1852 - 10 September 1852 | Commanded by Commander George Sumner Hand, coast of Ireland | ||
| 11 September 1852 - 17 June 1853 | Commanded by Commander Thomas Wilson, North America and West Indies | ||
| 5 December 1854 - 18 January 1856 | Commanded by Commander Roderick Dew, the Baltic during the Russian War | ||
| 12 January 1856 | Commanded by Commander Arthur Tower, Cape of Good Hope | ||
| 23 June 1860 - 15 April 1862 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Commander George Melville Jackson, Channel squadron | ||
| 15 April 1862 - 25 March 1863 | Commanded by Commander Colin Andrew Campbell, Channel squadron | ||
| 9 April 1863 - 23 February 1864 | Commanded by Commander Mark Robert Pechell, Channel squadron | ||
| 24 February 1864 - 1 June 1865 | Commanded by Commander Arthur Thomas Thrupp, Portsmouth | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Fr 4 February 1842 | The Rapid, 10, Lieutenant-Commander E.C. Earle, went out of harbour yesterday afternoon. She has her full complement of men, and will be paid in advance to-morrow, previous to her sailing for the coast of Africa, where she is to be stationed. It is understood that she will touch at Plymouth. Several officers are going out in her as passengers, to join the various ships on the station to which they have been recently appointed. The Hastings, 74, Captain J. Lawrence, C.B., was paid off yesterday. Many of her hands have volunteered into the Queen and other ships fitting out here. The Warspite, 50, Captain the Right Hon. Lord John Hay, C.B., after proceeding to New York with Lord Ashburton, will join the squadron stationed at the West Indies and North America, under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adams, K.C.B. It is expected that Lord Ashburton and suite will embark on Monday or Tuesday next, and that the Warspite will sail on the same or the following day. The Queen, 110, Captain G.F. Rich, is now quite ready for sea, with the exception of not having yet completed her complement of men. These, however, she is now procuring very fast. She obtained yesterday a number of volunteers from the Hastings when that ship was paid off, and she is continually receiving men who have been brought from various seaports in the kingdom to join her. 22 volunteers for her are expected daily from Bristol, under the charge of Mr Molesworth, on board the Mercury cutter, which was disabled in the Bristol Channel during the late severe gales. Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Owen will re-hoist his flag on board of her in a few days. She will be at least three weeks before she leaves for the Mediterranean. The Vindictive, 50, Captain J. Toup Nicholas, has had all her masts, guns and stores, taken out, and was docked yesterday morning. The shipwrights are at work upon her, and she is to be got ready for sea again with all possible despatch. The Geyser, Commander E.J. Carpenter, and the Growler, Commander C.H.M. Buckle, steam-frigates, will come round here from the eastward to complete their stores and complement of men, preparatory to proceeding to a foreign station. The Alfred, 50, Commodore J.B. Purvis, is expected daily from Sheerness. She is the same class vessel as the Vindictive, Several of the Hastings' ship’s company have volunteered into her, and will join her when she comes round to Spithead. The President, 50, Captain Broughton, is expected home from the South American station every day, the Dublin, 50, Captain T. Tucker, having arrived there some months since to relieve her. | ||
| Fr 30 June 1848 | Cape of Good Hope, April 21. The President, 50, Captain Stanley, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Dacres, the Commander-in-Chief, sailed from Simon's-bay on the 15th for the Mauritius, taking the Rosamond steam sloop, Commander Foote, with him part of the way. The Rosamond was to go to Mozambique with despatches, and then on to the Mauritius to meet the Admiral there. The Geyser steam sloop, Commander Brown, left this on the 18th, calling off Buffalo River to land Colonel Hare, and then goes on to the Mauritius to join the Admiral; and then they all go to Tamatave to make a treaty with the Queen of Madagascar. The Brilliant, 26, Captain Watson, left this about a month since for the Mauritius, and remains there until the Admiral's arrival, and then she would go to Tamatave with him. The Eurydice, 26, Captain Anson, is to come here to refit; and the Nimrod, Commander Belgrave, on the Eurydice's arrival, will take the Bishop of the Cape to St. Helena on a visit. The Admiral still feels the loss of his son most acutely. The Mariner, 12, Commander Mathison, arrived here on the 15th, the day the Admiral left; she was 17 days from Rio, and left at anchor there the Maeander, 44, Captain the Hon. H. Keppel; the Inconstant, 36, Captain Shepphard [sic]; the Acheron steam surveying ship, Captain J.L. Stokes; and the Hydra steam sloop, Commander Skipwith; — all from England. The Maeander and Acheron are expected here hourly, as they were to leave three days after the Mariner, which has been here nearly a week. The latter leaves this on the 25th for India. All is quiet and going on prosperously in the colony. They have had a severe hurricane at the Mauritius; the damage done is considerable. The Fox, 42, Commodore Sir Henry Blackwood, is expected here every day from India, homeward bound; also the Albatross, 14, Commander Farquhar, from the coast of Africa, en route to India. The Devastation steam sloop, Commander Michell, is also daily expected here from the coast for service on this station. The Seringapatam store ship, Master Commanding Russell, is in Simon's-bay. | ||
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