HMS Salamander (1832)
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| Name: | HMS Salamander |
| Namesake: | Salamander |
| Ordered: | 12 January 1831 |
| Builder: | Sheerness Dockyard |
| Cost: | £34,334 |
| Laid down: | April 1831 |
| Launched: | 14 May 1832 |
| Commissioned: | 12 February 1833 |
| Fate: | Broken up at Sheerness in 1883 |
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| Type: | Paddle sloop |
| Displacement: | 1,014 tons |
| Tons burthen: | 818 bm |
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| Beam: | 32 ft 2 in (9.8 m) oa |
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| Depth of hold: | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
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| Sail plan: | Schooner rig, later changed to barquentine |
| Speed: | 7.2 knots (13.3 km/h) (under steam) |
| Complement: | 135 |
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HMS Salamander was one of the first paddle warships built for the Royal Navy. Initially classed simply as a steam vessel, she was re-classed as a second-class steam sloop when that categorisation was introduced on 31 May 1844. She was launched in 1832 from Sheerness Dockyard, took part in the Second Anglo-Burmese War and was broken up in 1883.
Salamander was designed by Joseph Seaton as a steam vessel (in 1844 designated as a second-class paddle sloop) and ordered from Sheerness Dockyard on 12 January 1831. She was armed with two 10-inch (84 cwt) pivot guns and two (later four) 32-pounder (25 cwt) guns. Her two-cylinder side lever steam engine was provided by Maudslay, Sons & Field at a cost of £11,201, and produced 220 nominal horsepower, or 506 indicated horsepower (377 kW).
Her keel was laid in April 1831 and she was launched on 14 May 1832. Her total cost was £34,334 (comprising £20,429 for the hull, £11,201 for the machinery and £2,704 for fitting out) and was the only ship ever built to the design. She was one of the first true paddle warships built for the Royal Navy. She was provided with a schooner rig, which was later changed to a barquentine rig.
She was commissioned on 27 November 1832 under Commander Horatio Thomas Austin. From 15 February 1834 she was under Commander William Langford Castle, for service in the Channel; on 15 April 1836 she was under Commander John Duffill, and then on 16 August 1836 to 1840 she was under Commander Sydney Dacres, notably off the north coast of Spain during the first of the Carlist Wars. On 16 September she was under Commander Hastings Henry, but paid off from this commission on 11 August 1841.
On 25 June 1842 she was recommissioned under Commander Andrew Hamond, and joined the South America Station, before proceeding to the Pacific. On her way home in 1847, she was repaired with a new mainmast and bowsprit at Jamaica in February 1847, and then arrived home to pay off in November 1847 at Woolwich Dockyard. After a refit at Sheerness she returned to Woolwich, and in January 1849 she moved to Plymouth where she joined the Steam Reserve.
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