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| Name | Indus (1839) | Explanation | |
| Type | Second rate | ||
| Launched | 16 March 1839 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | |||
| Displacement | 2653 tons | ||
| Guns | 80 | ||
| Fate | 1898 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1860 guardship | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 30 October 1840 - 13 June 1844 | Commanded by Captain James Stirling, Mediterranean | ||
| 25 November 1856 - 27 February 1857 | Commanded by Captain John Charles Dalrymple Hay, flagship of Rear-Admiral Houston Stewart, Devonport | ||
| 25 April 1857 - 5 September 1859 | Commanded by Captain John Charles Dalrymple Hay, flagship of Vice-Admiral Houston Stewart on the North America and West Indies station | ||
| 10 August 1859 - 19 April 1860 | Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain William King Hall, flagship of Vice-Admiral Houston Stewart, North America and West Indies | ||
| 14 July 1860 - 3 July 1863 | Commanded by Captain Astley Cooper Key, guard ship of the Steam Reserve, Devonport, flagship of the Admiral Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard (Rear-Admiral Thomas Sabine Pasley, then Rear-Admiral Thomas Matthew Charles Symonds) | ||
| 1 January 1864 | Commanded by Captain William Edmonstone, flagship of Rear-Admiral Thomas Matthew Charles Symonds, flagship of the Admiral Superintendent, Devonport Dockyard | ||
| 18 April 1866 - 27 January 1869 | Commanded by Captain George Ommaney Willes, flagship of Rear-Admiral James Robert Drummond, guard ship of reserve, and flagship of the Admiral Superintendant, Devonport dockyard | ||
| 28 January 1869 - 10 May 1870 | Commanded by Captain William Garnham Luard, flagship of Rear-Admiral James Robert Drummond on the Devonport station , Flag ship of the Admiral Superintendent | ||
| 14 May 1870 - 23 May 1873 | Commanded by Captain Charles Fellowes, flagship of Admiral James Robert Drummond, Devonport, and captain of the Steam Reserve | ||
| 15 March 1875 - 9 October 1875 | Commanded by Captain Radulphus Bryce Oldfield, flagship of Rear-Admiral William Charles Chamberlain, superintendent of Devonport Dockyard | ||
| 10 October 1876 - 31 December 1876 | Commanded by Captain Frederick Anstruther Herbert, Devonport, flagship of the Admiral Superintendant George Ommaney Willes | ||
| 1 January 1877 - 3 January 1880 | Commanded by Captain Charles Thomas Curme, flagship of Rear-Admiral Charles Webley Hope, Guard Ship of Reserve, Devonport | ||
| 27 October 1882 - 26 October 1885 | Commanded by Captain Edward Kelly, guardship of Reserve, Devonport | ||
| 13 October 1885 - 31 December 1888 | Commanded by Captain Harry Holdsworth Rawson, flagship of Rear-Admiral John Crawford Wilson on the Devonport station | ||
| 1 August 1888 - 4 August 1891 | Commanded by Captain Walter James Hunt-Grubbe, Superintendent of Devonport dockyard, Plymouth | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Ma 12 April 1841 | (From the Hampshire Telegraph of Saturday.) The St. Vincent, Madagascar, and Fair Rosamond, were put out of the basin on Monday, and the Vindictive and Warspite on Tuesday, in order that the basin might be run dry, to repair the works of the wood-mills.The Mercury sailed to-day for Sheerness, with a lieutenant of the Indus on board, to volunteer men from the Asia for that ship. The Emerald sailed yesterday for Devonport, with seamen gunners for the Cornwallis. The keel of a second class steamer, to be called the Thunderbolt, was laid down in this dockyard on Wednesday last. | ||
| Ma 7 February 1842 | The Revenge, 78, Hon. Captain Waldegrave, is expected home every day to be paid off. She was at Lisbon on the 24th ult. with the Indus and Lynx. On the 21st ult. the Malabar, Calcutta, Cambridge and Lizard steamer, were at Gibraltar; and on the 22d the Vernon frigate, with four French ships of war, was at Cadiz. | ||
| Th 6 June 1844 | The Indus, 78, Captain Sir J. Stirling, arrived at Plymouth on Friday night from Lisbon, which she left on the 3d ult. Private letters from her complain bitterly of the length of the passage and the shortness of provisions; the latter consequent on having supplied a great portion of her own to the Albion, 90, Captain N. Lockyer. The Indus is ordered to be paid off forthwith, another grievance to the officers and crew, who for the most part belong to Portsmouth and its vicinity. The worst part of the business is the serious pecuniary loss inflicted on the crew, who being numerously connected by family ties with Portsmouth, have to travel hither at great expense and inconvenience. It is, however, reported, that Government steamers will be employed to convey the crew to this port, at least such as are connected. with it. We hope the report is correct. The Malabar, 72, Commander Macdonnell (Captain Sir G.R. Sartorius being on sick leave at Lisbon), will be paid off this day. The same complaint is made by the crew of this ship as with the Indus, most of her hands belonging to Devonport, where she was commissioned. The Collingwood, 80, Captain Henry Eden, flag-ship of Sir George Seymour, G.C.H., appointed to the chief command on the North American station, is out of dock and completing her fitting in the basin; she is short of her full complement of hands by about 150, but these will doubtless be made up from the Malabar, just paid off, the Collingwood having a first-rate character as a well known "crack” craft. | ||
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