HMS Vesuvius (1839)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Vesuvius.

History
RN EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Vesuvius
Ordered12 March 1838
BuilderRoyal Dockyard, Sheerness
Cost£39,505
Laid downSeptember 1838
Launched11 July 1839
Completed20 April 1840
CommissionedMay 1840
Honours and
awards
  • Acre 1840
  • Crimea/Black Sea 1855
  • Sea of Azov 1855
FateSold for breaking June 1865
General characteristics
Type
  • Steam Vessels (SV2)
  • First Class Sloop
Displacement1,283 tons
Tons burthen965+79⁄94 bm
Length
  • 180 ft 0 in (54.9 m) gundeck
  • 157 ft 1.375 in (47.9 m) keel for tonnage
Beam
  • 34 ft 5 in (10.5 m) maximum
  • 34 ft 1 in (10.4 m) for tonnage
Draught
  • 13 ft 0 in (4.0 m) (forward)
  • 13 ft 5 in (4.1 m) (aft)
Depth of hold20 ft 11.5 in (6.4 m)
Installed power280 nominal horsepower
Propulsion
  • 2-cylinder side lever steam engine
  • Paddles
Sail plan3-masted barque rigged
Complement149 (later 160)
Armament
  • As built:
  • 2 × 10-inch (84 cwt) shell guns
  • 2 × 68-pdr (64 cwt) carronades
  • 2 × 42-pdr (22 cwt) carronades
  • From 1856:
  • 1 × 68-pdr (84 cwt) MLSB guns
  • 4 × 32-pdr (42 cwt) MLSB guns
  • 1862
  • 1 × 110-pounder pivot gun
  • 4 × 32-pdr (42 cwt) MLSB guns

HMS Vesuvius was initially a Steam Vessel second class (later reclassed as a First Class Sloop) designed by Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, and built at Sheerness. She was commissioned and participated in the bombardment of Acre in 1840, during the Russian War she was in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in 1855. Her last overseas posting was in the West Indies. She was sold for breaking in June 1865.[1]

Vesuvius was the eleventh named vessel (spelt Vesuvius or Vesuve) since it was used for a 8-gun fireship, launched by Taylor of Cuckold's Point on 30 March 1691 and expended on 19 November 1693 at St Malo.[2]

  1. ^ Winfield
  2. ^ Colledge, Vesuvius