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| Name | Sphinx (1846) | Explanation | |
| Type | 1st class sloop | ||
| Launched | 17 February 1846 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 1056 tons | ||
| Displacement | 1611 tons | ||
| Guns | 6 | ||
| Fate | 1881 | ||
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| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 29 June 1846 | Commanded by Commander John Bettinson Cragg, Woolwich | ||
| 2 February 1850 | Commanded by Commander Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell, East Indies (including 2nd Burma war) | ||
| 23 May 1854 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Captain William John Cavendish Clifford, transporting French troops to the Baltic, then the Black Sea during the Russian war | ||
| 15 September 1854 | Commanded by Captain Arthur Parry Eardley-Wilmot, Mediterranean | ||
| 20 September 1859 - 1 January 1862 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Commander George Fiott Day, East Indies and China | ||
| 1 January 1862 - 9 July 1863 | Commanded (until paying off at Woolwich) by Commander Theodore Morton Jones, China | ||
| 1865 - April 1868 | Commanded by Captain Richard Vesey Hamilton, West Indies | ||
| 17 April 1868 - 5 December 1868 | Commanded by Captain John Edward Parish, North America and West Indies | ||
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