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Geyser, 1841
Type: 1st class sloop ; Armament 6
Launched : 6 Apr 1841 ; Disposal date or year : 1866
BM: 1055 tons ; Displacement: 1379 tons
Propulsion: Paddle
Machinery notes: 280
Notes:
29 May 1840 is ordered to he laid down in HM dockyard Pembroke
6 May 1841, Woolwich, The Driver arrived with the Geyser, recently launched at Pembroke Dockyard, to have her engines fitted by Messrs. Seaward and Co, at Limehouse.
25 Oct 1841, carried out trials down the River.
29 Oct 1841, Woolwich, in harbour.
31 Oct 1841, left Woolwich for Sheerness, to be coppered and made ready for sea. She took with her Royal Marines for the Alfred.
9 Feb 1842, Chatham, permision has been granted for the vessel's pinnace to be fitted with a screw, powered by a 5 or 6 horse power engine produced by the Disc Company.
1846 The Levant
20 Dec 1848 Cape of Good Hope
16 Feb 1850 The Geyser saves survivors of the barque Childe Harold, wrecked on Dassen's Island with the loss of Captain Byres, 12 Feb, and transports them to Cape Town, the Childe Harold having only left that port on about 11 Feb.
10 Feb 1851 At Rio de Janeiro
20 Apr 1851 Report on this date at Portsmouth that the vessel was cruising to the southward and that despite her late misham of getting on shore, she looks very well.
30 Aug 1851 South America
29 Jan 1856 Mid WN Tufnell apptd ; for service in the Black Sea.
24 Feb 1856 Arrived in the Mersey with stores and provisions for the Resolute
23 Apr 1856, Present at Fleet Review, Spithead ; Commander Tower
1860 Devonport
23 Jun 1860 Devonport. Commissioned for Service on the Home Station as a Storeship.
1864 Home Station. Number of Cases of Disease and Injury.