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Harrier, 1854
Type: Sloop ; Armament 17
Launched : 13 May 1854 ;
Disposal date or year : 1866
BM: 747 tons ; Displacement: 1047 tons
Propulsion: Screw
Machinery notes: 100
Notes:
20 Dec 1848 Pembroke Building
23 Jun 1855 Captured Finnish barque Victoria
20 Jan 1856 Portsmouth. Taken out of dock yesterday
24 Feb 1856 Arrived Spithead from Dartmouth
24 Feb 1856 Was ordered to leave Spithead to join the Baltic squadron led by Imperieuse, but had sprung a leak.
25 Feb 1856 Having been docked and had her leak stopped, re-stored she followed after the Imperieuse and her consorts.
23 Apr 1856, Present at Fleet Review, Spithead ; Commander Derriman
30 Nov 1858 at Montevideo.
27 Apr 1859 at Buenos Ayres.
31 May 1859 at Montevideo.
7 Jul 1859 left Rio JAneiro for England,
30 Oct 1860 Portsmouth. Commissioned for service on the Australia Station.
1864 Australian Station. Medical report : fever and diarrhoea onboard : number of Cases of Disease and Injury.
Apr 1886 Australia
DNS of 22 Mar 1856 : Naval Prize Money
Department of the Accountant General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset House, March 20, 1856. Notice is given to all persons interested therein, that preparations are now making for the intended distribution of proceeds arising from the Finnish barque Victoria, captured on June, 23, 1855, by her Majesty's ship Harrier.