HMS Phoenix (1832)
HMS Phoenix at the Bombardment of Acre
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| Name: | HMS Phoenix |
| Ordered: | 12 January 1831 |
| Builder: | Devonport Dockyard |
| Laid down: | May 1831 |
| Launched: | 25 September 1832 |
| Commissioned: | 7 January 1834 |
| Fate: | Sold for breaking on 26 January 1864 |
| General characteristics As paddle sloop (1832 - 1844) | |
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| Tons burthen: | 812 bm |
| Length: | 174 ft 7 in (53.2 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 10 in (9.7 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft 6 in (3.8 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 16 ft 9 in (5.1 m) |
| Installed power: | 220 nhp, 2-cyl. side lever steam engine |
| Propulsion: | Sidewheels |
| Complement: | 135 |
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| Notes: | Converted to a screw sloop at Deptford, from 1844 to 1845 |
| General characteristics As screw sloop (1845 - 1864) | |
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| Tons burthen: | 809 bm |
| Length: | 174 ft 7 in (53.2 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 10 in (9.7 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 3 in (3.7 m) |
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| Propulsion: | Single screw |
| Speed: | 8.8 kn (16.3 km/h) |
| Complement: | 135 |
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| Notes: | Fitted for Arctic service in 1851 |
HMS Phoenix was a 6-gun steam paddle vessel of the Royal Navy, built in a dry dock at Chatham in 1832. She was reclassified as a second-class paddle sloop before bring rebuilt as a 10-gun screw sloop in 1844-45. She was fitted as an Arctic storeship in 1851 and sold for breaking in 1864.
The vessel was designed by Robert Seppings, and built in a drydock at Chatham Dockyard. She was engined by Maudley, Sons & Field with a two-cylinder side lever steam engine developing 220 nominal horsepower. She was armed with a single 10-inch (84cwt) pivot-mounted gun, an 8-inch (52cwt) pivot-mounted gun and four 32-pounder (17cwt) carronades.
On 22 March 1831, before the keel was laid down, the ship was renamed Charon, but the name Phoenix was restored less than a fortnight later.
The Phoenix was commissioned on 6 November 1833 under Commander Robert Oliver, for the Channel Fleet. From 9 September 1835 to June 1838 she was commanded by Commander William Honyman Henderson, including service off coast of Spain during the First Carlist War. Captain Lord John Hay commanded her on the same duty from 19 November 1836 to 1838. From July 1838 she was under Commander Anthony W. Milward and from 1839 she spent her life in the Mediterranean, first under Commander Robert Spencer Robinson from 20 July 1839, and then, from 1 March 1840, under Commander Robert Fanshawe Stopford. Stopford was in command when she took part in the Bombardment of Acre on 3 November 1840. Subsequently she was commanded from 26 December 1840 by Commander John Richardson until she paid off on 1 January 1842.
In April 1844 Phoenix was converted to a screw sloop by Curling & Young's at Limehouse to a design by Oliver Lang. She received a John Penn & Son 260-nominal horsepower two-cylinder vertical single-expansion steam engine driving a screw propeller. The conversion was finished by February 1845, and the 489 indicated horsepower (365 kW) developed by her new engine, combined with the more efficient screw propulsion, gave her a speed under steam of about 8.8 knots (16.3 km/h). A further benefit of screw propulsion was the loss of the large paddle boxes, which allowed more of her deck to be used for guns; a further four carronades were fitted, making her a 10-gun ship. She was re-docked at Deptford on 1 April 1844 to be fitted with "Mr Steinman's patent submarine propeller".
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