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Inconstant, 1836
Type: 5th rate ; Armament 36
Launched : 10 Jun 1836 ;
Disposal date or year : 1862
BM: 1410 tons
Notes:
Designed by Capt. Jno. Hayes
Jul 1830 Building at Sheerness
30 Apr 1836 additional shipwrights have been transferred to expedite the building of this vessel.
Portsmouth 25 Jun 1836 is reported to have been taken out of the dock at Sheerness having been coppered.
9 Jul 1836 is expected to be commissioned shortly.
Plymouth 20 Oct 1836 Bellerophon, Vanguard, Pembroke, Hercules, Inconstant, Pique, and Pantaloon, the Experimental Squadron, sailed for Lisbon.
Cadiz 2 Nov 1836 arrived with the Vanguard, Pique and Pantaloon.
Cadiz 4 Nov 1836 sailed for Lisbon and touched there on the 11th inst.
Portsmouth 19 Nov 1836 arrived from the Tagus.
Portsmouth 24 Dec 1836 sailed Wednesday last for Plymouth and Corunna, with arms for the Spanish Queen's service.
Portsmouth 7 Jan 1837 is reported to have departed Santander about a week ago for England.
Lisbon 16 Apr 1837 reported to be in the Tagus.
Lisbon 8 May 1837 the Talavera, Pique and Inconstant have arrived from a cruise and sailing trials.
Lisbon 24 Jun 1837 arrived from Cadiz.
Lisbon 2 Jul 1837 sailed for Corunna to join the Pique, Castor and Hercules, who are reported to be waiting to sail on a cruise.
28 Feb 1839 Plymouth arrived Inconstant, 36 Captain Pring, from Halifax, whither she had conveyed from Cork detachments of the 37th and 69th regiments. The Inconstant made her passage out in 16 days, having reached Halifax on the 7th Feb., and returned thence to Plymouth in 14 days. The crew suffered much from the cold, with several having been frost-bitten, and had toes amputated.
14 May 1839 Bermuda, sailed for Halifax.
10 Jul 1839 at Halifax.
20 Jul 1839 at Halifax
2 Aug 1839 at Halifax,
2 Nov 1839 Portsmouth, the Inconstant is expected from Halifax, having been relieved by the Winchester.
14 Mar 1840 Master W.R.H. Mettacott l Surgeon John Wilson (c), appointed to the Inconstant.
20 Mar 1840 Plymouth, fitting nearly completed, along with her crew, and are in a very forward state.
21 Mar 1840 Purser James Yorsten, appointed to the Inconstant.
21 Apr 1840 Plymouth went out of harbour to the Sound.
28 May 1840 Plymouth, in the Sound
17 Jul 1840 at Kingstown, Dublin bay.
22 Aug 1840 arrived at Plymouth from Cork on Tuesday, having entered a hundred men and boys for general service. She is under orders to take two companies of artillery to Gibraltar
26 Aug 1840 Plymouth, the Apollo troop-ship arrived with two companies of Artillery, which embarked in the Inconstant for Gibraltar.
4 Sep 1840 Plymouth, sailed Friday with troops for Gibraltar, via Cork.
13 Sep 1840 Gibraltar, arrived from Cork on the 13th ult., with detachments of the 46th and 48th regiments, and some Royal Artillery.
16 Sep 1840, sailed from Gibraltar for Cadiz and Lisbon.
26 Sep 1840, sailed for Plymouth.
8 Oct 1840, arrived at Plymouth from Lisbon on Tuesday.
30 Oct 1840, Portsmouth, Pantaloon sails Sunday to assist the Inconstant in raising seamen at Bantry Bay.
18 Nov 1840 at Cork.
17 Dec 1840 Plymouth, arrived from Cork.
31 Dec 1840 Plymouth, sailed on Sunday to relieve the ships in the Channel.
28 Jan 1841, Portsmouth, The Iris sailed for Plymouth, with men for ships in the Mediterranean.
2 Feb 1841 Plymouth Sound, sailed for the Mediterranean.
6 Feb 1841 Volunteer 1st. Class. Francis M'Kenzie Frazer, appointed to the Inconstant.
19 Feb 1841 Volunteer 1st Class Messrs. John Miller, and William Brace Mason, appointed to the Inconstant.
19 Feb 1841 Volunteer 1st Class Mr. John Miller, appointed to the Inconstant.
10 Apr 1841, Volunteers, 1st Class W. B. Masson and J. Miller, appointed to Inconstant.
25 Apr 1841, at Beyrout.
26 Jun 1841, Captain Daniel Pring (from the Inconstant) appointed to the Powerful
7 Aug 1841, Captain F. T. Michell, appointed to the Inconstant;
30 Aug 1841, sailed from Alexandria, for Syria.
20 Nov 1841, Lieutenant T. Stephens, from the Inconstant, appointed to the Howe.
18 Dec 1841, Second Master D. Welch, from the Inconstant appointed to the Thunderer.
17 Dec 1841, Mate E.F. Roberts, has been promoted to Lieutenant and is appointed to the Inconstant.
20 Jan 1848 Sailed from Plymouth for NZ, via Rio de Janeiro.
1846 The Levant
20 Dec 1848 Pacific
29 Dec 1849 It is reported at Sydney that the barque Volunteer, which left Sydney on 24 May, has been deserted at Monterey.[Crew gone to the Gold Rush ?] The Inconstant despatched men to take her on.
6 Feb 1850 The Two Friends, which left San Francisco 9 Dec 1849, and has just arrived in N.Z. reports that the Captains and crews who deserted for the gold fields were getting tired of digging and were returning to the port and that the Inconstant was enabling them to get away from the port to Valparaiso, by putting men onboard from her own crew. The following ships have been sent from San Francisco to Valparaiso: Arequipo, Louisa, John Ritson, and William Watson.
15 Jan 1850 Sailed from Callao for San Blas, from thence along the coast, collecting freight. It is understood that the Inconstant will be in England and paid off by December next.
8 Apr 1950 (Circa) Seen to be lying in the Bay of San Francisco
1860 Emigration Hospital Ship, Cork