Name | Harpy | Explanation |
Type | Gunboat |
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Launched | 4 March 1845 |
Hull | Iron |
Propulsion | Paddle |
Builders measure | 344 tons |
Displacement | 505 tons |
Guns | 3 |
Fate | 1909 |
Class | |
Ships book | ADM 135/218 |
Note | 1892 target |
Snippets concerning this vessels career |
Date | Event |
12 December 1845 | Commanded (from commissioning at Woolwich) by Lieutenant commander Edward Halhead Beauchamp-Proctor, South America, including Anglo-French action in Uruguay |
24 November 1846 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander James Ward Tomlinson, south-east coast of America |
12 April 1854 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Lieutenant commander Charles Gowan Lindsay, flagship of Rear-Admiral Montagu Stopford, Mediterraean (Constantinople) |
11 August 1855 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander George Augustus Brine, flagship of Rear-Admiral Frederick William Grey, Mediterranean |
28 January 1860 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Alexander Henderson, Greenock, tender to Hogue |
25 August 1860 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Francis Hewson, Greenock, tender to Hogue |
1 July 1864 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander William Howorth, greenock, tender to Lion |