HMS Volcano (1836)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Volcano
Ordered	19 November 1834
Builder	Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth
Cost	£27,884
Laid down	July 1835
Launched	30 June 1836
Completed	17 January 1837
Commissioned	December 1836
Honours and awards	China 1856 - 60
Fate	Sold for breaking November 1894
General characteristics
Type	Paddle sloop
Displacement	1,006 tons
Tons burthen	720 49/94 bm
Length	150 ft 8 in (45.9 m) gundeck 128 ft 7.875 in (39.2 m) keel for tonnage
Beam	32 ft 9.375 in (10.0 m) maximum 32 ft 5.375 in (9.9 m) for tonnage
Draught	11 ft 6 in (3.5 m) (forward) 12 ft 0 in (3.7 m) (aft)
Depth of hold	18 ft 0.5 in (5.5 m)
Installed power	140 nominal horsepower
Propulsion	2-cylinder side lever steam engine Paddles
Sail plan	3-masted barque rigged Brig sailing rig - 1857
Complement	135
Armament	As built: 2 × 9-pounder (13 1⁄2 cwt) brass guns From 1842: 1 × 8-inch (52 cwt) pivot gun 2 × 32-pounder (17 cwt) carronades

HMS Volcano was a Hermes-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built at Portsmouth Dockyard. She was launched in 1836. Her first few commissions were on packet service in the Mediterranean and North American and West Indies Stations and on the anti-slavery patrol on the West Coast of Africa. In 1854 she was converted to a factory ship and served in the Baltic during the Russian War. She was sent to China during the Second Opium War as a factory ship. On her return she was assigned to Portsmouth, on Harbour Service as a stationary factory ship. She remained there until sold for breaking in 1894.

Volcano was the sixth named vessel since it was used for an 8-gun Fireship, purchased 1778, commissioned 31 July 1778 and sold 7 May 1781.^[1]