Name | Tenedos (1870) | Explanation | |
Type | Sloop (1876: Corvette) | ||
Launched | 13 May 1870 | ||
Hull | Wooden | Length | 212 feet |
Propulsion | Screw | Men | 180 |
Builders measure | 1275 tons | ||
Displacement | 1755 tons | ||
Guns | 6 | ||
Fate | 1887 | Last in commission | 1886 |
Class | Eclipse | ||
Ships book | ADM 135/468 | ||
Career | |||
Date | Event | ||
13 May 1870 | Launched at Devonport Dockyard. | ||
9 July 1872 - 28 October 1874 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain Edward Hood Lingard Ray, Pacific (until Ray invalided) | ||
28 October 1874 - 30 November 1876 | Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain Edwin John Pollard, Pacific | ||
25 March 1878 - 6 December 1880 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain Edward Stanley Adeane, Cape of Good Hope and west coast of Africa, then North America and West Indies | ||
2 November 1880 - 13 December 1882 | Commanded (until paying off at Antigua) by Captain Charles George Fane, North America and West Indies | ||
14 December 1882 - 8 January 1884 | Commanded (from commissioning at Antigua) by Captain Charles George Fane, North America and West Indies (senior officer on the Newfoundland fishery station) | ||
8 January 1884 - 3 July 1886 | Commanded (until paying off) by Captain Edmund Charles Drummond, North America and West Indies | ||
November 1887 | Sold to G. Pethwick for breaking up at Plymouth |
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