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| Name | Powerful (1826) | Explanation | |||||||||||
| Type | Second rate | ||||||||||||
| Launched | 21 June 1826 | ||||||||||||
| Hull | Wooden | ||||||||||||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||||||||||||
| Builders measure | 2296 tons | ||||||||||||
| Displacement | |||||||||||||
| Guns | 84 | ||||||||||||
| Fate | 1864 | ||||||||||||
| Class | Canopus | ||||||||||||
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| Note | 1860 target | ||||||||||||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||||||||||||
| Date | Event | ||||||||||||
| 1 January 1839 - 31 May 1841 | Commanded by Commodore Charles Napier, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840, where, as Commodore, second in command to Admiral Sir Robert Stopford) | ||||||||||||
| 18 December 1840 - 22 September 1841 | Commanded by Captain George Mansel, Mediterranean | ||||||||||||
| 23 September 1841 - 6 January 1842 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Michael Seymour, Mediterranean | ||||||||||||
| (January 1843) | Out of commission at Portsmouth | ||||||||||||
| 25 January 1848 - 8 March 1851 | Commanded by Captain Richard Saunders Dundas, Mediterranean | ||||||||||||
| 29 May 1854 - 2 July 1854 | Commanded by Captain George Mansel, particular service | ||||||||||||
| 12 September 1854 - 1 October 1856 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Lecke Massie, particular service | ||||||||||||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||||||||||||
| Date | Extract | ||||||||||||
| We 29 December 1841 | PORTSMOUTH, Tuesday. The Thalia, 42, Captain C. Hope, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the eastward. She has recently come from Leith, where she has been very successful in procuring volunteers to join her. The Powerful, 84, Captain M. Seymour, will come into the harbour this day, and will be paid off as soon as she is unrigged. She was to have come in yesterday, but was prevented by the thick fog which was prevailing at the time the tide would admit of her entering the harbour. Vice-Admiral Sir J.A. Ommanney has struck his flag. The Numa transport, with the detachments of the Royal Artillery and 59th Regiment on board, bound to the West Indies, is still at Spithead, but will sail to-day if the wind is in any way favourable. The detachment of the Royal Artillery has already been upwards of a month on board of her. The Queen, 110, Captain Rich, bent her sails yesterday, and is now all ataunt. She will proceed on Wednesday or Thursday to Spithead. The whole of the ships now fitting out here for foreign service, consisting of the Warspite, 50, Vindictive, 50, Rapid, 10, and Queen, 110, will go out of harbour this week. Ships at Spithead:— Powerful, 84, Thalia, 42, Hazard, 18, Snake, 16, and Numa transport. Ships in harbour.— St. Vincent, Victory, Queen, Warspite, Vindictive, Rapid, Royal George yacht, Excellent and Adventure naval transport. | ||||||||||||
| Fr 6 April 1855 | The ships left at Spithead after the departure of the main body of the Baltic expedition shifted berths yesterday under sail, and formed two lines, as ordered, thus:—
The Geyser, 6, paddle, was ordered to take officers and men for the Baltic fleet in the Downs, and left last evening. The Driver, 6, paddle, will leave Spithead to-morrow, and will then also take supernumeraries to join the larger ships. The Falcon returned to Spithead on Wednesday night from the Channel. Rear-Admiral Baynes remains at Portsmouth to take out the third division; but his flagship, the Retribution, will not be out of the hands of the engineer department until the 10th, and then the shipwrights will not have done with her. She remains in the steam basin, with Admiral Baynes's flag at her mizen, and is being proceeded with as fast as possible. The Odin, 16, paddle frigate, is also in the steam basin, having new covers to her cylinders fitted, her old ones not being strong enough to contain the pressure of the additional power of steam generated by her new boilers; she will be refitted in this respect by the 10th. The Ruby, Pelter, and Grinder gunboats are all in the hands of the dockyard artificers; the latter, which came up from Cowes on Monday from the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Robert White, is in dock, being fitted out for the fleet. The Pelter is having moveable iron plates of a quarter of an inch thickness fitted on to the gunwale, and projecting above the bulwarks about 18 inches, for, the protection of her crew from rifle bullets from without, when in close proximity with the enemy, and also the better to enable those onboard to shield themselves while at rifle firing themselves. This vessel needed some new tubes for her boilers, but those sent to replace the defective ones are said to be four inches too short for her! The Hastings, 60, new screw blockship, went out of harbour yesterday again to make a trial of her steaming properties at the measured mile. She went out with most of her weights on board, and drawing 22 feet. The mean of four runs showed an average speed realized of 6·7 knots — a result far beyond the most sanguine expectations of the scientific on board and ashore; revolution of engines, 78; and pressure of steam in the boilers, 55lb. The inexperience of the stokers alone prevented a better mean speed being realized, and there is little doubt that greater speed will be ultimately obtained. She victuals now 279 out of her intended complement of 600. The Ruby gunboat was undocked yesterday. The Bellerophon, 78, landed her invalids yesterday morning at the dockyard jetty, and they were conveyed to the invalid depôt by railway. The ship is now returning stores, preparatory to being put out of commission. Her officers will be paid off, but the crew will be paid down, and after a fortnight’s leave draughted for service in the Baltic. None of her bulkheads or internal fittings are to be removed. We learn by electric telegraph from Deal that the Baltic fleet at anchor in the Downs yesterday comprised the following vessels:—The Duke of Wellington, 131, Royal George, 101, Nile, 91, James Watt, 91, Caesar, 91, Exmouth, 91, Majestic, 81, Cressy, 81, Colossus, 81, Hogue, 60, Blenheim, 60, Edinburgh. 60, Vulture, 6, Dragon, 6, Gorgon, 6, Basilisk, 6, Bulldog. 6. The Ajax, 60, was coming in. The weather being very fine visitors were flocking in to Deal by every train. | ||||||||||||
| Tu 3 June 1856 | Her Majesty's steam-sloop Medea, Commander Edward Peirse, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning, from the West India station, to be paid off. She left Bermuda May the 13th, and experienced on the voyage a heavy gale from the S.W. The West India station was very unhealthy when she left. Her Majesty’s steam-sloop Malacca had lost nine men and two engineers. At Bermuda when she left were Her Majesty’s ships Boscawen, 72, Rear-Admiral Fanshawe; Powerful, 84, Captain Massie; Pembroke, 60, Captain G.H. Seymour, C.B.; Cornwallis, 6O, Captain Wellesley; and the Arab, 12, Captain Ogle. By the Medea, which left St. Thomas’s on the Thursday before the 13th ult., we learn that the English mail of the 17th ult. reached St. Thomas’s on the morning of the 2d of May. The Royal Mail steamer Parana left St. Thomas’s on the 1st ult. Yellow fever was raging at St. Thomas’s, particularly among the shipping, to an alarming extent; there had been several deaths in the Marine Hospital. Common remittent fever and ague were also prevalent among the inhabitants. It was generally apprehended that the coming summer would be a very unhealthy one throughout the West Indies. Her Majesty’s steam-sloop Buzzard left St. Thomas’s for Antigua on the 1st ult. | ||||||||||||
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