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