HMS Medusa (1838)
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Medusa |
Namesake | Medusa |
Ordered | 10 March 1838 |
Builder | Pembroke Dockyard |
Laid down | May 1838 |
Launched | 31 October 1838 |
Completed | 12 August 1839 |
Commissioned | 8 August 1839 |
Reclassified | As tugboat, 1861–1862 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 17 February 1872 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Merlin-class packet boat |
Tons burthen | 889 14/94 bm |
Length | |
Beam | 33 ft 2 in (10.1 m) |
Depth | 16 ft 5 in (5.0 m) |
Installed power | 312 nhp |
Propulsion | 2 × Steam engines |
Armament | 2 × 6-pdr carronades |
HMS Medusa was one of three 2-gun Merlin-class paddle packet boat built for the Royal Navy during the 1830s. She was converted into a tugboat in 1861–1862 and sold for scrap in 1872.
Description
Merlin had a length at the
Construction and career
Medusa, the fourth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,
On 28 November 1849, Medusa ran aground at Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, whilst conveying mails from London to India. She was refloated and put back to Marseille with a broken rudder. The mails were forwarded in the French Government steamship Leonidas.[4] On 14 March 1851, Medusa collided with the British brig Caroline in Grand Harbour, Malta, as she was leaving port. A court found Medusa was to blame and awarded compensation to the owners of Caroline.[5]
Medusa was converted into a tugboat in 1861–1862 at
Notes
References
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Phillips, Lawrie; Lieutenant Commander (2014). Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy: A Bicentennial History. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7509-5214-9.)
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - Lyon, David & Winfield, Rif (2004). The Sail & Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-032-9.
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793-1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates (epub). Barnsley, UK: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.