Name | Penguin | Explanation |
Type | Packet brig |
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Launched | 10 April 1838 |
Hull | Wooden |
Propulsion | Sail |
Builders measure | 360 tons |
Displacement | |
Guns | 6 |
Fate | 1871 |
Class | |
Ships book | |
Note | 1857 Coastguard watch vessel. 1863 = WV.31 |
Snippets concerning this vessels career |
Date | Event |
24 July 1838 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander William Luce, Falmouth |
5 November 1841 - November 1846 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Walter Leslie, Falmouth |
30 November 1846 - November 1848 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander William Swainson, Falmouth |
6 December 1850 | Commanded by Commander Thomas Etheridge (Devonport), Cape of Good Hope |