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HMS Sparrow (1828)
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NameSparrowExplanation
TypeCutter   
Launched28 June 1828
HullWooden
PropulsionSail
Builders measure160 tons
Displacement 
Guns 
Fate1860
Class 
Ships book
Note1844 survey ketch
Snippets concerning this vessels career
DateEvent
18 October 1839
- 1842		Commanded by Lieutenant commander John Tyssen, South America
(January 1843)Out of commission at Chatham
26 August 1844
- 1 January 1847		Commanded by Commander Henry Charles Otter, surveying on the west coast of Scotland
2 April 1849
- 29 April 1851		Commanded by Commander George Alexander Frazer, south-east coast of Ireland
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