HMS Pandora (1833)

History


Name:	HMS Pandora
Ordered:	11 December 1831
Builder:	Woolwich Dockyard
Cost:	£7,821
Laid down:	August 1832
Launched:	5 July 1836
Commissioned:	1 June 1836
Reclassified:	Converted to survey ship 1845.
Fate:	Sold January 1862
General characteristics
Class and type:	Pandora-class brig
Tons burthen:	318 ⁶⁸⁄₉₄ tons bm
Length:	90 ft (27 m) (overall) 71 ft 3 in (21.7 m) (keel)
Beam:	29 ft 3 in (8.9 m)
Depth of hold:	13 ft 10 in (4.22 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Complement:	50 (later 60)
Armament:	2 × 32-pounder carronades 1 × 32-pounder gun

HMS Pandora was a 3-gun brig of the British Royal Navy, in service from 1833 to 1862.

References

Lyon, David and Rif Winfield. The Sail and Steam Navy List: All of the Ships of the Royal Navy, 1815-1889. London: Chatham Publishing. 2004, p. 126.
Day, Jean D. The Search for Thomas Kerr, Mariner, Mapmaker, Missionary, Meteorologist, 1825 - 1875. Create Space, 2015.

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