HMS Medina (1840)

HMS Medina

Ship data flag  United Kingdom Ship type Package ship from 1854 Gunboat from 1856 Research ship class Merlin- class Shipyard Pembroke Dock , Pembrokeshire Launch March 18, 1840 Whereabouts Scrapping: 1865

Ship dimensions and crew measurement 889 tn. l.   crew 125

Rigging and rigging Speed under sail Max. 9.5 kn (18 km / h)

Machine system machine Steam engine Machine performance 312 hp (229 kW) propeller 2 paddle wheels

Armament 2 cannons from 1854 4 cannons

The HMS Medina was a steamer of the Royal Navy .

history

The ship initially served as a parcel ship in Liverpool and from 1848 in the Mediterranean . The steamship was converted into a gunboat from 1854 and was used in the Black Sea during the Crimean War . From 1856 it finally served Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt as a research ship in the Mediterranean.

Captains

• Master commander William Smithett, August 15, 1840-December 1847
• Lieutenant commander Edward Keane, February 6, 1848-March 1848
• Lieutenant Abraham Darby, October 19, 1848 - March 1850
• Lieutenant commander Louis Rivate Reynold, January 23, 1851
• Lieutenant commander Harry B. Beresford, May 4, 1854-August 1855
• Captain Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt, January 7, 1856 - September 1863

Web links

• Medina at familytreeservice.co.uk
• Medina at pbenyon.plus.com
• Medina at pdavis.nl
• Warship Histories Vessels at rmg.co.uk (PDF; 4.2 MB)
• Medina at worldnavalships.com

Footnotes

1. ↑ Accounts and papers of the House of Commons, Session 1 February - 10 August 1866 , Volume 45, 1866, p. 210 ( online )
2. ^ Joseph Allen, The new Navy List , Jan 1852, p. 235 ( online )