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HMS Pandora (1833)
Career
Name: HMS Pandora
Ordered: 11 December 1831
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Cost: £7,821
Laid down: August 1832
Launched: 5 July 1836
Commissioned: 1 June 1836
Reclassified: Converted to survey ship 1845.
Fate: Sold January 1862
General characteristics
Class & type: Pandora-class brig
Tons burthen: 318 6894 tons bm
Length:

90 ft (27 m) (overall)

71 ft 3 in (21.7 m) (keel)
Beam: 29 ft 3 in (8.9 m)
Depth of hold: 13 ft 10 in (4.22 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Complement: 50 (later 60)
Armament: 2 × 32-pounder carronades
1 × 32-pounder gun

HMS Pandora was a 3-gun brig of the British Royal Navy, in service from 1833 to 1862.

References[]

  • Lyon, David and Rif Winfield. The Sail and Steam Navy List: All of the Ships of the Royal Navy, 1815-1889. London: Chatham Publishing. 2004, p. 126.
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