Name | Starling | Explanation |
Type | Gunboat |
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Launched | 1 February 1855 |
Hull | Wooden |
Propulsion | Screw |
Builders measure | 232 tons |
Displacement | |
Guns | 3 |
Fate | 1871 |
Class | Dapper |
Ships book | ADM 135/447 |
Note | |
Snippets concerning this vessels career |
Date | Event |
6 March 1855 - 31 December 1855 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Shute Barrington Piers, the Baltic (as tender to Duke of Wellington) during the Russian War |
1 January 1856 - 9 May 1856 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Shute Barrington Piers, the Baltic |
10 May 1856 - 20 August 1856 | Commanded by Commander Shute Barrington Piers, the Baltic |
9 September 1856 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Arthur Julian Villiers, China (until wrecked during unsuccessful attack on the Peiho forts during the 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) |
7 December 1858 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander James Hawkins Whitshed, East Indies and China |