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| Name | Hermes (1835) | Explanation | |
| Type | Sloop | ||
| Launched | 26 June 1835 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 716 tons | ||
| Displacement | 789 tons | ||
| Guns | 2 | ||
| Fate | 1864 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | ADM 135/228 | ||
| Note | 1842 rebuilt as 830 bm | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 9 November 1835 - 11 January 1838 | Commanded (from commissioning at Woolwich) by Lieutenant William Simpson Blount, Mediterranean mail packet | ||
| 29 May 1838 - 5 October 1840 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander William Simpson Blount, Mediterranean mail packet | ||
| 30 May 1843 - 26 October 1847 | Commanded (until paying off at Chatham) by Lieutenant commander Washington Carr, North America and West Indies | ||
| 7 January 1850 - 10 June 1854 | Commanded by Commander Edmund Gardiner Fishbourne, Cape of Good Hope, then East Indies | ||
| 13 June 1855 - 17 May 1848 | Commanded by Commander Henry Coryton, North America and West Indies | ||
| 21 February 1856 | Commanded by Commander William Everard Alphonso Gordon, Cape of Good Hope | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Fr 9 July 1847 | The following ships have served the usual period of commission (three years); many have exceeded that term, and are on their way home to be paid off or are ordered to return as soon as relieved:—
EAST INDIA STATION. The Agincourt, 72, Captain Johnstone, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief; having been relieved by the Vernon, 50, Captain Fitzgerald, Rear-Admiral Inglefield.The Fox, 42, Commodore Sir Henry Blackwood. The Castor, 36, Captain Graham. The Iris, 26, Captain Mundy. The Pilot, 16, Commander Wilson. The Wolf, 16, Commander Vansittart. The Spiteful steam sloop, Commander Sir W. Hoste, Bart. MEDITERRANEAN. The Albion, 90, Captain Fremantle. The America, 50, Captain Sir T. Maitland. The Flamer steam sloop, Lieutenant-Commander Lavie.The Hecla steam sloop, Commander Starmer. The Virago steam sloop, Commander Lunn. PACIFIC STATION. The Collingwood, 80, Captain Smart, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir George Seymour, Commander-in-Chief.The Fisgard, 42, Captain Duntze. The Modeste, 18, Captain Watkins. The Cormorant steam sloop, Commander Seymour. THE BRAZILS. The Curaçoa, 24, Captain Broughton.The Racer, 16, Commander Reed. The Satellite, 16, Commander Rowley. THE WEST INDIES. The Hermes steam sloop, Commander Carr.COAST OF AFRICA. The Prometheus steam sloop, Commander Hay.The Sealark, 6, Acting-Commander Whyte. COAST OF IRELAND. The Comet steam sloop, Lieutenant-Commander Johnstone.The Stromboli steam sloop, Commander Fisher. | ||
| Th 11 March 1858 | Her Majesty's ship Boscawen, left Simon's Bay on the 3d of January, on a cruise to St. Helena. Ascension, and the West Coast; the Admiral, Sir F. Grey, on board. The Sappho left on the 8th for Australia. The Hermes left for East London, with the Governor, on the 19th. On the 27th Her Majesty's steamer Simoom arrived from Calcutta, and is now the only vessel of war in Simons Bay. | ||
| We 29 December 1858 | The Union Screw Steamship Company's mail packet Norman, Captain Boxer, has arrived. She left Simon’s Bay, Nov. 20; St. Helena, 30th; and Ascension, Dec. 4. ... Her Majesty's ship Boscawen was at Simon's Bay. The steamship Hermes was preparing to leave Table Bay, in search, of the brig Sappho. The Sardinian ship Malabar, with coal, from London for Aden, was wrecked at Table Bay on the 6th of November; crew saved. | ||
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