HMS Ringdove

HMS Ringdove (1833)

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Name	Ringdove (1833)	Explanation
Type	Brig-sloop
Launched	June 1833
Hull	Wooden
Propulsion	Sail
Builders measure	429 tons
Displacement
Guns	16
Fate	1850
Class
Ships book
Note
Snippets concerning this vessels career
Date	Event
21 November 1833 - April 1837	Commanded by Commander William Frederick Lapidge, north coast of Spain
14 October 1838 - 1841	Commanded by Commander Keith Stewart, North America & West Indies
26 January 1842 - 12 September 1845	Commanded by Commander William Daniell, North America and West Indies, then west coast of Africa (until his death at Sierra Leone)
17 December 1845	Commanded by Commander William Legge George Hoste, East Indies
30 October 1846 - 1 December 1847	Commanded by Commander William John Cavendish Clifford, East Indies
3 August 1847 - 15 December 1848	Commanded by Commander Edward Augustus Inglefield, East Indies
16 December 1848 - 4 May 1849	Commanded by Acting commander Alfred Luckraft, East Indies
*Extracts from the Times* newspaper**
Date	Extract
Ma 31 January 1842	PORTSMOUTH, Sunday. The Wolverine, 16, Commander Johnson, arrived this morning from the eastward. She will complete her stores and ship's company at this port, whence she will proceed to China. The Vindictive has been taken into dock, and upon being examined all her injuries are found to be forward, and not abaft, as was supposed from her mizen-mast having been cut away. It appears that nearly the whole of her false keel is gone, and that about 30 feet of her main-keel forward are destroyed, her gripe is gone, the stern about 7 feet up destroyed, her frame much shook, her copper much ruffled, and the oakum for about three streaks from the garboard is started fore and aft. It will be necessary to take out her guns and all her stores before she can be repaired; and it is considered that it will take a month or six weeks before she can again be got ready for sea. It is understood that there will be a court-martial to investigate the matter. The Ringdove, 16, was commissioned yesterday afternoon by Commander Sir W. Daniel. The Lively cutter, which went out of harbour with an anchor and cables and a number of riggers on board, to assist the Vindictive when on shore on Wednesday, was unable to reach her, but was blown out to sea by the hurricane, with the loss of her jib, mainsail, and bowsprit. She, however, got safe into the Downs on Thursday. The Warspite is expected to leave on Tuesday week, the 8th of February, with Lord Ashburton and suite, for New York. It is expected that the Edinburgh, 72, will be commissioned for the flag of Sir Thomas Cochrane, which it was intended should have been hoisted on board the Vindictive.
Ma 30 January 1843	By the last accounts from Bermuda, the Warspite, 50, Captain Lord John Hay, and the Pique, 36, Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford, had not reached that island on the 3d instant. The Spartan, 26, Captain the Hon. C.G.J.B. Elliot, left Havannah for Jamaica on the 21st of December, where it is supposed orders await her to proceed forthwith to Bermuda or England. The following was the distribution of a portion of the West India fleet, according to the latest accounts:—The Fair Rosamond, Pickle, Avon, and Imaum, at Jamaica; the Volage, 26. Captain Sir W. Dickson, at Grenada; the Electra, 18, Commander A. Darley; and the Ringdove, 16, Commander Sir W. Daniell, at Honduras; the Scylla, 16, Commander Sharpe, on her passage from Jamaica to Honduras; the Pilot, 16, Commander W. Houston; the Crocodile, 26, Master-commander Thomas Elson; and the Griffin, 3, Lieutenant-commander Charles Jenkin, at Barbadoes.
Ma 31 May 1847	PENANG, April 3. On Monday forenoon the Vernon, 50, Captain Fitzgerald, flag of Rear-Admiral Inglefield, Commander-in-Chief on the East India and China station, and the Acorn, 16, Commander Bingham, were signalled from the Great-hill, coming in to the northward. The Vernon turned the Pulo Tricoose point just at sunset, and saluted the Agincourt, 72, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir T. Cochrane, whose term of service has expired, which the latter returned next morning. On Tuesday morning Admiral Inglefield proceeded to the Government bungalow, on the Great Hill, where Admiral Cochrane is at present residing. The Iris, 26, Captain Munday, is reported to sail for England on Tuesday next. The Vernon, and Dido, 20, Captain Maxwell, were at Penang on the 11 th of April, the latter about proceeding to New Zeeland; the Agincourt, 72, Captain Johnstone, for England; the Daedalus, 20, Captain Quhae, for Hongkong; the Wolf, 18, acting Commander Vansittart, for Lebuan; and the Acorn, 16, Commander Bingham, together with the Hon. Company's steam-sloops Nemesis and Ganges, were in port also at Penang, on the 11th of April. The Vestal, 26, Captain C. Talbot, sailed from China for England on the 4th of March, leaving the Vulture steam-frigate, Captain M'Dougal, senior officer's ship, at Hongkong, until the arrival of Admiral lnglefield, when she will be stationed at Whampoa. The Espiegle, 12, Commander Harris, by the latest advices, was to proceed from Hongkong to Ningpo, after undergoing certain repairs [according to his service record, and his entry in O'Byrnes 1849 'Naval Biographical Dictionary' Thomas Pickering Thompson was in command of this vessel at this time]; the Childers, 16, Commander Pitman, was to proceed to Shanghae; the Ringdove, 16, Commander Clifford, to Amoy; and the Scout, 16, Commander Loring, to Foochowfoo; the last named vessel has captured 39 of the pirates who had been committing so many cruel murders and depredations, the boldness with which they perpetrate which may be judged of from the fact that they do not scruple to openly attack a men of war. The surveying schoonor Young Hebe (ordered to be sold out of Her Majesty's service), whilst at Hongkong under repair and opposite the moorings of the Vestal, 26, was boarded by a pirate boat's crow of nearly 30 men, and was completely gutted. It is said the Scout is to be sent to track the pirates.

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