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HMS Indus (1839)
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Name | Indus | Explanation | |
Type | 2nd 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 - 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 | ||
August 1859 - 19 April 1860 | Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain William King Hall, flagship of Rear-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 | ||
26 January 1869 | Commanded by Captain William Garnham Luard, flagship of Rear-Admiral James Robert Drummond, flag ship of the Admiral Superintendent, Devonport | ||
11 May 1870 - 1873 | Commanded by Captain Charles Fellowes, flagship of Admiral James Robert DrummondDevonport, and captain of the Steam Reserve | ||
1 January 1877 | Commanded by Captain Charles Thomas Curme, flagship of Rear-Admiral Charles Webley Hope, Guard Ship of Reserve, Plymouth | ||
7 October 1882 | Commanded by Captain Edward Kelly, guardship of Reserve, Devonport |
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