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Cameleon, 1816
Type: Brig-sloop ; Armament 10
Launched at Bombay : 16 Jan 1816 ;
Disposal date or year : 1849
BM: 240 tons
Complement :37 officers and men ; 10 boys ; 8 marines
Notes:
1 Jan 1820 built of teak.
Trincomalee 20 Mar 1816 Remains.
Madras Roads 20 Jun 1816 Remains, under orders for England.
St. Helena 16 Oct 1816 Remains.
Portsmouth 11 Sep 1819 Arrived from a cruise.
Portsmouth 14 Sep 1820 Arrived from a cruise.
Portsmouth 9 Jan 1821 Sailed with water and provisions for merchant vessels detained in the chops of the Channel by the long prevailing easterly winds.
27 Nov 1821 Is in commission and based on Portsmouth.
31 Jan 1823 the Cameleon and Naiad, off Algiers, attacked the Tripoli, an Algerine corvette, and the former boarded her, before being ordered to abandon the vessel.
Jan 1824 With the Naiad, visited Algiers, following a violation of the British consuls offices, in order to demand satisfaction from the Dey.
31 Jan 1824 Since it was apparent that British citizens living in Algiers were no longer thought to be safe, they were taken on board. However, on departing from the harbour the Algerine corvette Tripoli, which had recently committed depredations on Spanish trade, in contravention of the Treaty of 1816, was sighted in the offing and was reduced to a wreck by the Naiad's gunners. She was subsequently boarded and taken by the Camelion, but on the Naiad's orders, abandoned. See p. 235-236 at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow.
Portsmouth 23 Feb 1824 Arrived from Algiers, last from Falmouth.
Plymouth 29 Dec 1825 Remains.
6 Jan 1827 Employed in the Mediterranean.
Malta 12 May 1827 Had sailed for Leghorn and Naples.
31 Jan 1828 with a squadron at Grabusa under Commodore Sir T. Staines, destroyed a number of vessels which had been used for piracy. See p. 261-2 at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow.
Valletta 4 Jun 1828 Is in the Archipelago.
Valletta 27 Jan 1829 Was reported to be sailing for Naples on the 29th inst.
Napoli di Romania 28 Oct 1829 Refitting.
Malta 6 Feb 1830 Is at Valletta.
Portsmouth 4 Jan 1834 Refitting for commission.
17 Jan 1835 in harbour at Portsmouth
Portsmouth 18 Feb 1835 went out to Spithead.
Portsmouth 28 Feb 1835 sailed Tuesday to Brighton to protect the mackerel fishery.
Portsmouth 14 Nar 1835 has returned from Brighton.
Portsmouth 25 Apr 1835 it is reported that whilst at anchor off Brighton the ship's gig was launched to rescue the 9 occupants of a pleasure boat which was driven out to sea in a squall and swamped. After bringing them on board for treatment they were returned to shore.
Portsmouth 16 May 1835 arrived yesterday from a cruise off the Sussex coast where she was sent to prevent disputes between French and local fishermen.
14 Nov 1835 is reported to be either on the north coast of Spain or at Lisbon.
Lisbon 19 Dec 1835 in the Tagus.
Lisbon 22 Oct 1836 arrived from Vigo.
Lisbon 29 Oct 1836 in the Tagus.
Lisbon 2 Dec 1836 arrived from Cape St Vincent, where she had been cruising for the previous month, and was to sail tomorrow for the same station.
Lisbon 4 Jan 1837 sailed on a cruise.
17 Feb 1837 lying-to in a strong gale off Oporto, was obliged to run into the harbour at Vigo the following day.
Lisbon 28 Feb 1837 sailed for St Ubes.
Lisbon 16 Apr 1837 reported to be in the Tagus.
Lisbon 30 Apr 1837 sailed on a cruise.
Lisbon 3 May 1837 arrived from a cruise.
Lisbon 2 Jun 1837 arrived from Cadiz.
7 Nov 1838 2nd Master Henry Webb apptd.
15 Dec 1840 salvage received from the owners of the brig Jane wrecked off the Bar of Oporto 7 - 11 Oct 1837.
6 Jan 1839 departed Lisbon for the coast of Africa.
20 Mar 1840 Buenos Ayres, arrived from Rio.
14 Nov 1840 at Buenos Ayres.
Circa 3 Jan 1841, at Rio Janeiro.
12 Apr 1841, departed the Cape of Good Hope for Rio Janeiro.
6 Jun 1841, at Rio Janeiro.
22 Jun 1841, at Rio Janeiro.
7 Sep 1841, at the Cape of Good Hope, en route for India,
Sep 1841, put back to the Cape, having encountered severe weather on her passage to China.
20 Dec 1848 Employed as a customs Watch Vessel.