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| Name | Curacoa (1854) | Explanation | |
| Type | Frigate | ||
| Launched | 13 April 1854 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 192 feet |
| Propulsion | Screw | Men | 300 |
| Builders measure | 1570 tons | ||
| Displacement | 2385 tons | ||
| Guns | 31 | ||
| Fate | 1869 | Last in commission | 1867 |
| Class | Class (as screw) | Tribune | |
| Ships book | ADM 135/112 | ||
| Career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 13 April 1854 | Launched at Pembroke Dockyard. | ||
| 1 September 1854 - 14 May 1857 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Captain George Fowler Hastings, Mediterranean and Black Sea during the Russian War | ||
| 14 May 1857 - 9 September 1857 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Arthur Forbes, Mediterranean | ||
| 30 November 1857 - 2 July 1859 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Captain Thomas Henry Mason, Channel squadron | ||
| 2 July 1859 - 4 June 1862 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Augustus Phillimore, south east coast of America | ||
| 23 April 1863 - 20 February 1867 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth until paying off at Portsmouth) by Commodore William Saltonstall Wiseman, Australian squadron (during the New Zealand War) | ||
| 17 July 1869 | Breaking up completed. | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Fr 1 July 1859 | The screw line-of-battle ship Agamemnon, 91, Capt. Thomas Hope, arrlved at Portland on Tuesday afternoon from Spithead. Her Majesty's vessels now at anchor in that harbour are the Royal Albert, 121; Hero, 91; James Watt, 91; Agamemnon, 91; Algiers, 91; Emerald, 51; Mersey, 40; Curacoa, 31; Blenheim, 60; Pioneer, 6; Flying Fish, 6; and the Biter, 2. | ||
| Th 14 July 1864 | THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND. MELBOURNE, MAY 26. The following is the list of killed and wounded. Where not described otherwise, the wounds are gunshot wounds:- | ||
| Tu 24 January 1865 | The ships of war on the Australian station at the date of the last advices were ? the Harrier, 17, Acting-Commander Swan, at New Zealand; the Miranda, 14, Capt. Jenkins, at Sydney; the Eclipse, 4, Commander Fremantle, at New Zealand; the Cura?oa, 23, Commodore Sir W. Wiseman, at New Zealand; the Esk, 21, Capt. Luice, at Sydney; the Falcon, 17, Commander Parkin, at New Zealand; and the Salamander, 4, Commander the Hon. J. Carnegie, at Sydney. | ||
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