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Medusa, 1838
Type: Packet ;
Launched : 31 Oct 1838 ;
Disposal date or year : 1872
BM: 889 tons
Propulsion: Paddle
Machinery notes: 312 hp
Notes:
7 Sep 1839 Portsmouth, fitted for the station between Liverpool and Kingstown, has just commenced running. She made her first passage across the Channel on the 2d inst., performing the distance, 123 miles, in nine hours and 40 minutes, which is said to be the shortest ever noticed. The Medusa is a splendid vessel, 880 tons, built at Pembroke, and commanded by Lieutenant J. P. Philips, late of the Lucifer.
1 Jul 1840 Liverpool, commissioned by Mr. Wm. Smithett, acting master.
1 Aug 1842 Steam Packet at Liverpool.
20 Dec 1848 Steam Packet in the Mediterranean.
30 Aug 1851 Mediterranean
22 Mar 1858 distribution of proceeds received, and tonnage bounty awarded, for the captured brigantine Robert M. Charlton, [per London Gazette of 20 Sep 1859].
28 Apr 1858 distribution of the slave bounty awarded for a canoe with 32 slaves on board, [per London Gazette of 20 Sep 1859].
1860 Woolwich, re-rated as a 4
1 Sept 1863 Sheerness. Commissioned for Service on the Home Station.
1864 Home Station. Number of Cases of Disease and Injury.
1870 Particular Service
8 Feb 1871 sailed from Devonport, for the Clyde, to bring back the Kite and Bustard, twin screw gunboats of 245 tons, 28 h.p., and built by R. Napier and Sons, of Glasgow.
19 Mar 1871 had arrived at Devonport from the Clyde with the Kite and Bustard.