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| Name | Hawke (1820) | Explanation | |
| Type | Third rate | Type | Blockship |
| Launched (Sail) | 16 March 1820 | Converted to screw | 20 May 1855 |
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 176 feet |
| Propulsion | Sail | Men | 600 |
| Builders measure | 1754 tons | Builders measure (as screw) | 1754 tons |
| Displacement | Displacement (as screw) | 2808 tons | |
| Guns | 74 | Guns (as screw) | 60 |
| Fate | 1865 | Last in commission | 1865 |
| Class | Class (as screw) | Cornwallis | |
| Ships book | |||
| Snippets concerning career prior to conversion | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 16 March 1820 | Launched as 3rd rate sailing ship at Woolwich Dockyard. | ||
| January 1840 | Out of commission at Sheerness | ||
| 3 February 1855 - 19 May 1856 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness until paying off at Sheerness) by Captain Erasmus Ommanney, the Baltic, as senior officer in the Gulf of Riga during the Russian War, and then at Falmouth | ||
| Career as unarmoured wooden screw vessel | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 20 May 1855 | Completed as screw at Chatham Dockyard. | ||
| 12 December 1856 - 4 August 1858 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Captain James Willcox, Coast Guard, Queenstown | ||
| 19 July 1858 - 5 August 1861 | Commanded by Captain William Crispin, Coast Guard, Queenstown | ||
| 12 August 1861 - 11 February 1862 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Harvey, Coast Guard, Queenstown | ||
| 11 February 1863 - 4 January 1864 | Commanded by Captain Edward Codd, Coast Guard, Queenstown | ||
| 4 January 1864 - 24 March 1864 | Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain Edmund Heathcote, Coast Guard, Queenstown | ||
| 1865 | Broken up at Devonport | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| We 31 December 1856 | The following ships and vessels are now in port at Sheerness, in harbour, fitting-basin, and in docks, viz.:- The Edinburgh, 60 guns, Captain Edward P. Halsted; the Waterloo, 120 guns, Captain Lord Frederick Kerr, flagship; the Formidable, 84 guns, Captain-Superintendent John Jervis Tucker; the Royal George, 102 guns; the Terrible, 21 guns; the new screw steam corvette Scylla. 21 guns; the Argus, 6 guns; the Eurotas, 12 guns, screw mortar-ship; the Hydra, 6 guns; the Terror, 14 guns, floating battery; the Horatio, 12 guns; the Russell, 60 guns; the Hawke, 60 guns, Captain James Willcox, C.B., &c.; the Phoenix, 6 guns.; the Renard, 6 guns; the Foxhound, 6 guns; the Pylades, 21 guns; the Trusty, 14 guns, floating battery; the new screw steam frigate Emerald, 51 guns; the Hermes, 6 guns, Commander William E.A. Gordon; the Lizard steamvessel, Lieutenant-Commander Thomas B. Christopher; the Myrtle steamvessel, Master-Commander William S. Bourchier; the African steamvessel, Second Master-Commander R. Harvey; the Fearless steamvessel; the Wildfire steam tender to Waterloo, Master-Commander George Brockman; the Melampus, 42 guns, Captain L. Heath, C. B., &c. The gunboats Louisa, Magnet, Erne, Mayflower, Ruby, Sandfly, Carnation, Spanker, Pelter, Fly, Hasty, Cochin, Julia, Dwarf, Fidget, Griper, Mastiff, Mistletoe, Traveller, Spey, Surly, Herring, Sepoy, Bullfrog, Tickler, Manly, Thistle, and the new screw steam despatch gunboat Nimrod. The new ship Meeanee, 80 guns, is in No. 2 dry dock, being altered to receive screw steam machinery. | ||
| We 24 August 1859 | At half-past 6 o'clock on Saturday evening Her Majesty's ship Nile steamed out of Cork harbour with the intention of joining the Channel squadron at Spithead. It is thought likely that she will henceforth form portion of the squadron, and that the Hawke will continue for some time longer to hold the post of guardship in Queenstown. The screw steam despatch vessel Flying Fish, 6, Commander C. Hope, arrived at Plymouth on Monday, from the Channel fleet. The screw steamship Caesar, 90, Capt. T.H. Mason, got up steam on Monday morning, and in the afternoon left Plymouth Sound to join the Channel fleet, which, it is said, will cruise as far west as Ushant. The scrow steamships Aboukir, 91, the Topaz, 51, and the Melpomene, 51, left Portland harbour on Sunday, to join the Channel fleet, which was cruising a few miles from the harbour. The Edgar, 91, the Impérieuse, 51, and the Blenheim, 60, remain in port. | ||
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