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HMS Odin (1846)
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| Name | Odin | Explanation | |
| Type | 1st class frigate | ||
| Launched | 24 July 1846 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 1310 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 18 | ||
| Fate | 1865 | ||
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| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 24 May 1847 - 1 June 1850 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Frederick Thomas Pelham, Mediterranean | ||
| 1 August 1851 - October 1851 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth until paying off at Portsmouth) by Commander William Saltonstall Wiseman, temporarily commissioned to convey Sir Hamilton Seymour, ambassador to the Russian court, to St Petersburg | ||
| 18 December 1852 - 3 February 1855 | Commanded by Captain Francis Scott, Portsmouth, later Woolwich, then (July 1854) the Baltic during the Russian War | ||
| (7 September 1855) | Commanded by Captain James Willcox, Black Sea during the Russian War | ||
| 20 September 1859 - 7 July 1861 | Commanded by Captain Lord John Hay, East Indies and China (in command of a division of gunboats during the second capture of the Taku forts in August 1860) | ||
| 8 July 1861 - 28 August 1863 | Commanded by Commodore Lord John Hay, East Indies and China | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Ma 17 May 1847 | PORTSMOUTH, May 16. The Driver steam sloop, Captain Hayes, having coaled, left the harbour yesterday afternoon and proceeded to Woolwich to be paid off. She took with her the officers and crew of the Amphion screw steam frigate, who have been navigating the Odin during her "relief service." When the Driver left Rio Commodore Herbert's squadron in the river Plate were all well; the crews and marines still ashore, protecting British property — consequently, there are no cruizers to prevent the slave traffic, and slaves were being landed in thousands along the unwatched parts of the coast with the most commercial coolness. She reports that the Inflexible steam sloop, Commander Hoseason, had run from the Cape to Port Jackson, Sydney, a distance of 6,392 miles in 35 days 6 hours. | ||
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