HMS Carysfort (1836)
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| Name: | HMS Carysfort |
| Ordered: | 29 June 1831 |
| Builder: | Pembroke Dock |
| Laid down: | September 1832 |
| Launched: | 12 August 1836 |
| Decommissioned: | 1847 |
| Fate: | Sold 1861 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 26-gun sixth-rate frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 925 bm |
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| Beam: | 40 ft 5.875 in (12.3 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Complement: | 240 |
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HMS Carysfort was a sixth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1836 and named for the Earl of Carysfort, who had been a former (civilian) Lord of the Admiralty. Her captain, Lord George Paulet, occupied the Hawaiian Islands for five months in 1843. She was decommissioned in 1847 and finally broken up in 1861.
She was originally ordered from Pembroke Dock on 29 June 1831 as a frigate of the 709-ton Andromache class, but on 24 June 1832 the design was amended and the Carysfort was re-ordered as a unit of the new 912-ton Vestal class. After launching, she was taken to Sheerness Dockyard where she was completed fitting on 18 February 1837.
From 21 November 1836 she was under command of Captain Henry Byam Martin (son of Sir Thomas Byam Martin). Martin sailed her for the Mediterranean on 12 March 1837.
On 26 September 1840 she joined HMS Zebra in action off Tartus during the Syrian War and took part in the capture of Acre on 3 November 1840.
Lord George Paulet (1803–1879) became her captain on 28 December 1841 in the Pacific Ocean under Rear Admiral Richard Darton Thomas (1777-1857). From February through July 1843 he took control of the government of the Kingdom of Hawaii. This became known as the Paulet Affair. Admiral Thomas restored the king, as Paulet had only been given instructions to investigate claims against British subjects in the islands.
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