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| Name | Skipjack (1855) | Explanation | |
| Type | Gunboat | ||
| Launched | 4 August 1855 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | 232 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 4 | ||
| Fate | 1879 | ||
| Class | Albacore | ||
| Ships book | ADM 135/431 | ||
| Note | 1874 hulk | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 30 November 1855 - 1856 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Henry Weyland Chetwynd | ||
| 8 August 1857 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander John Murray, North America and West Indies | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Fr 6 July 1860 | The screw steam frigate Emerald, 51, Capt. Arthur Cumming, which conveyed Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, K.C.B., to the West Indies, arrived In Plymouth Sound on Wednesday evening, and saluted the flag of Admiral Superintendent Sir Thomas Pasley, Bart., acting Port Admiral in the absence of Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe, K.C.B. The Emerald left Bermuda June 10th under canvass, and has brought a mail from the squadron, and about 30 supernumeraries, invalids, convicts, &c. The Emerald left at Bermuda the screw steamship Nile, 91, Capt. Edward K. Barnard ; screw steam corvette Cossack, 20, Capt. Richard Moorman; the paddlewheel steam sloop Gorgon, 6, Commander B. C. T. Pim; the screw steam gun-boat Skipjack, Lieut. and Commander John Murray; the floating battery Terror, 16, Capt. Frederick Hutton. The Nile and the Cossack were to sail on the 13th of July for Halifax. The Gorgon was ordered home on account of the defective condition of her boilers, and would probably sail on the 11th. The paddlewheel steam sloop Styx, 6, Commander Charles Vesey, left Bermuda for Newfoundland on the 31st of May. | ||
| Th 14 February 1861 | At Jamaica were Her Majesty's steamers Imaum, Mersey, and Kingston. At Antigua Her Majesty's ship Nile, with the Admiral, Styx and Skipjack gunboats. At Santa Martha, Her Majesty's ship Cadmus; at Panama, Her Majesty's ship Mutine, and an American frigate-corvette. Her Majesty's ship Racer sailed from Greytown for Jamaica. | ||
| Ma 18 March 1861 | Her Majesty's ship St. George, Captain the Hon. Francis Egerton, arrived in Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, on the 21st of February, and the Barracouta, Commander Wood, on the 21th. The Nile, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral A. Milne, Commander-in-Chief, and the Styx, were at Barbadoes on the 26th. At Port Royal, Jamaica, were Her Majesty's ships Imaum, Commodore Dunlop, Hydra, Cadmus, Skipjack, and Kingston. Her Majesty's ship Racer was at St. Domingo, and the brig Mutine at Panama. Her Majesty's ship Bacchante, bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Sir T. Maitland, was to leave Tobago on the 23d or 24th of February for Vancouver's Island. The Pylades was at Tobago refitting to leave for England, and the Termagant was to sail in a few days for the coast of Mexico, to relieve the Clio, ordered to Panama. | ||
| Sa 13 April 1861 | Her Majesty's ship St. George with Prince Alfred on board, left St. Thomas's on the 27tn ult. for Santa Cruz and thence to Jamaica. The Nile (flag of Admiral Milne), Styx, Racer, Cadmus, Skipjack, Landrail, Hydra, and Imaum were at Port Royal, Jamaica, awaiting the arrival of the Prince. At Vera Cruz Her Majesty's ship Valorous; at Panama the Mutine and the United States' ship Lancaster. | ||
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