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engaged bringing food supplies to Sligo as relief following the first failed harvest of the Great Irish Famine. On 18 May 1848 she was under the command of George Filmer, Master for service at the Cape of Good Hope
Station. On 14 September 1852 she was under the command of Lieutenant George T.C. Smith, RN remaining at the Cape of Good Hope Station. She returned to Home Waters in mid-1854.
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for conversion to a troop transport. The first phase was completed in June 1842 at a cost of £6,939. She was recommissioned under the command of Thomas Driver, Master on 26 May 1842. She underwent the second phase at
Woolwich from June to September 1842 at a cost of £5,461. In March 1846 the Dee was
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Her initial armament consisted of two 18-pounder 22 hundredweight (cwt) muzzle loading smooth bore (MLSB) guns on pivot mounts. Her armament was soon changed to six 32-pounder MLSB guns all on pivot mounts. The six guns were a combination of four 63 cwt and two 56 cwt guns. Late in her career the 56
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Her machinery was supplied by
Maudslay, Son and Field of Lambeth. She shipped two rectangular fire-tube boilers. The steam engine was a vertical single expansion (VSE) side lever engine with cylinders of 54 inches (1,371.60 millimetres) with a stroke of 60 inches (1,524.00 millimetres), rated at 200
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November and December 1854 she was converted to a storeship at Portsmouth at a cost of £860. She was recommissioned on 23 November 1854 under the command of Thomas C. Pullen, Master. She paid off in 1860. On 12 June 1863 she was commissioned under the command of George Raymond, Master as a
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on 5 April 1832. The gundeck was 166 feet 7 inches (50.77 metres) in length with 146 feet 6 inches (44.65 metres) reported for tonnage calculation. Her maximum breadth was 30 feet 4.5 inches (9.26 metres) with 30 feet 0.5 inches (9.16 metres) reported for
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394:(nhp). The engines were connected to two 20 feet (6.10 metres) diameter paddle wheels. Steam was produced and delivered to the engines from tubular boilers at 3.5 pounds per square inch (0.24 atm; 24 kPa) above atmospheric pressure. The
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Her second commission started in
February 1838 under the command of Commander Joseph Shearer, RN for service on south-east coast of America. She returned to Home Waters paying off in May 1841.
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Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, by J.J. Colledge, revised and updated by Lt Cdr Ben Warlow and Steve Bush, published by
Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, Great Britain, © 2020,
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Lyon
Winfield, The Sail & Steam Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815 to 1889, by David Lyon & Rif Winfield, published by Chatham Publishing, London © 2004,
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was on 9 June 1832 under the command of
Commander Robert Oliver, RN for service with the squadron blockading the Dutch coast from 9 June 1832 – 27 May 1834, when the steamers
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Greenhill, Steam, Politics and
Patronage, the transformation of the Royal Navy 1815-54, by Basil Greenhill and Ann Giffard, published by Conway Maritime Press, 1994,
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both fore and aft was 11 feet 6 inches (3.51 metres). Her builder's measure for tonnage was 704 tons with a displacement of 907 tons.
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in May 1825. She was initially classed as a steam vessel (SV), and in 1837 reclassified as a steam vessel class 2 (SV2). She was converted to a
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She was paid off for the last time on 17 June 1871 at Sheerness. She was broken at Sheerness in October 1871.
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under the command of Commander Edward Stanley, RN on 5 November 1833. On 29 May 1854 she was assigned to the
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under the command of Commander William Ramsay, RN. She returned to Home Waters, paying off in April 1837.
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s engine. When the paddle wheels turned 18 revolutions per minute, she had a maximum speed of 8
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and ten other sailing ships that blockaded the Dutch ports in 1832. This was in support of the
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cwt guns were replaced with a single 10-inch 86 cwt shell gun. In 1868 when converted to a
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was used to try Wethered's superheater in 1856; Brown does not mention that
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was the third ship to carry this name since it was introduced for a 20-gun
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in support of the Belgians against the Dutch, and intervened again to
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later 6 × 32 pdr (4 × 63 cwt and 2 × 56 cwt) guns all on pivot mounts
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Model of a pair of side-lever engines from the H.M.S. 'Dee', (1832)
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1 × 10-inch 86 cwt shell gun (replace 2 × 56 cwt MLSB guns)
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30 ft 0.5 in (9.2 m) reported for tonnage
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11 ft 6 in (3.5 m) (forward and aft)
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382:was 16 feet 4 inches (4.98 metres). Her
470:were part of a Royal Navy force including three
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423:. This produced an economy of fuel of 18% in
343:in 1868. She was broken at Sheerness in 1871.
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484:besiege the Dutch garrison of Antwerp
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575:Lyon Winfield, pages 149–150
439:, her armament was removed.
269:(15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
238:, 272 ihp (203 kW)
234:, 2-cylinder side-lever 200
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693:The navies of the world
519:Conversion to storeship
506:Conversion to transport
149:General characteristics
16:Sloop of the Royal Navy
548:Lyon Winfield, page 28
396:Science Museum, London
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681:, page 51 says that
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443:Commissioned service
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369:in October 1829 at
313:Sir Robert Seppings
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557:Greenhill, page 49
480:Belgian Revolution
392:nominal horsepower
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78:4 April 1827
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701:Black Eagle
683:Black Eagle
528:Disposition
476:French Army
425:Black Eagle
416:Black Eagle
128:9 June 1832
1133:1832 ships
1117:Categories
1092:Barracouta
958:Salamander
828:References
458:commission
351:sixth rate
305:Royal Navy
255:Brigantine
243:Propulsion
1017:Stromboli
944:Messenger
536:Citations
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437:storeship
341:storeship
333:troopship
251:Sail plan
117:Completed
101:Laid down
1071:Basilisk
1063:Antelope
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965:Phoenix
677:Brown,
384:draught
328:African
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46:History
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