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HMS Skylark (1855)
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| Name | Skylark | Explanation | |
| Type | Gunboat | ||
| Launched | 3 May 1855 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | 232 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 3 | ||
| Fate | 1906 | ||
| Class | Dapper | ||
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| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 23 May 1855 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Frederick Whiteford Pym, the Baltic (as tender to Russell) during the Russian War, and later in Queenstown | ||
| (April 1856) | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Francis Alexander Hume | ||
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