HMS Pandora (1833)

Pandora in 1861, painted by Thomas Lyde Hornbrook
History
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 and type: Pandora-class brig
Tons burthen: 318 6894 tons bm
Length:
  • 90 ft (27.4 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:

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

Map of the Cape of Good Hope with soundings made by Pandora in 1851

Soundings made off the Cape of Good Hope at the Agulhas Bank in 1851. Carried out survey work of North Island, New Zealand. Thomas Kerr her Master.

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.
  • Day, Jean D. The Search for Thomas Kerr, Mariner, Mapmaker, Missionary, Meteorologist, 1825 - 1875. Create Space, 2015.
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