HMS Fly (1831)
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Fly off Sydney c.1842
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| Name: | HMS Fly |
| Ordered: | 30 January 1829 |
| Builder: | Pembroke Dockyard |
| Cost: | £11,761 (plus £4,648 for fitting out) |
| Laid down: | November 1829 |
| Launched: | 25 August 1831 |
| Commissioned: | 27 January 1832 |
| Out of service: | Converted to a coal hulk in 1855 |
| Renamed: | C2 and later C70 whilst a hulk |
| Fate: | Broken up 1903 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Fly-class ship-sloop |
| Tons burthen: | 485 69/94 bm |
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| Beam: | 31 ft 7 in (9.6 m) oa |
| Depth of hold: | 14 ft 5 in (4.4 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 120 |
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HMS Fly was an 18-gun sloop of the Royal Navy. She was responsible for the exploration and charting of much of Australia's north-east coast and nearby islands. She was converted to a coal hulk in 1855 and broken up in 1903.
Fly was a development of the Orestes-class ship-sloop designed by Professor Inman of the School of Naval Architecture. She was 114 feet 4 inches (34.8 m) long on the gundeck and 93 feet 6 1⁄8 inches (28.5 m) at the keel. She had a beam of 31 feet 7 inches (9.6 m) overall, and a hold depth of 14 feet 5 inches (4.4 m), giving her a tonnage of 485 69/94 bm. Her armament was made up of sixteen 32-pounder carronades and a pair of 9-pounder bow chasers.
Fly and her three sister ships Harrier, Argus and Acorn were ordered on 30 January 1829. She was laid down in November 1829 and launched from Pembroke Dockyard on 25 August 1831. Argus and Acorn were cancelled on 27 April 1831, leaving Fly as the lead ship of a class of two.
She was commissioned at Plymouth on 27 January 1832 under the command of Commander Peter M'Quhae and served initially on the North America and West Indies station, returning to Portsmouth on 30 September 1833. After another two years on the same station she paid off at Portsmouth on 5 September 1835. By September 1836 she was fitting out for the South America station, including work in the Pacific Ocean. She was under the command of Commander Granville Gower Loch on that station from 1838 to 1840. She arrived at Spithead on 17 July 1840 from South America with 1,700,000 dollars and sailed for Plymouth to be paid off. In December 1841 she commissioned at Plymouth under the command of Francis Price Blackwood to survey the Torres Straits in company with the cutter Bramble.
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