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Pantaloon, 1831
Type: Brig/sloop ; Armament 10
Launched : Purchased Dec 1831 ;
Disposal date or year : 1852
B.M. 323 tons
Notes:
Designed by Captain Sir W. Symonds for the Duke of Portland, as a yacht. Later purchased by the Admiralty and adapted as a 10-gun Brig.
Woolwich 8 Jan 1831 Sailed to join the squadron in the Downs.
Woolwich 31 Oct 1831 Sailed for the Downs.
Portsmouth 18 Nov 1831 Arrived from Woolwich.
26 Jul 1832 went out to Spithead.
Portsmouth 1 Aug 1832 sailed.
Plymouth 3 Aug 1832 Arrived.
Plymouth 23 Aug 1832 Off port.
Plymouth 9 Sep 1832 Arrived from Oporto (1st).
Plymouth 27 Sep 1832 Arrived from the westward.
Falmouth 30 Sep 1832 Sailed for Lisbon with a mail.
Plymouth 1 Nov 1832 Sailed for Falmouth, and Oporto.
Falmouth 19 Mar 1833 Arrived from Lisbon (3), off Oporto (4).
Plymouth 26 Mar 1833 Sailed for the eastward.
Plymouth 8 May 1833 Arrived from Portsmouth.
Plymouth 18 May 1833 Sailed for the westward.
Milford Haven 20 May 1833 arrived to assist in rigging and removing the Royal William to Plymouth.
Portsmouth 5 Jul 1833 Arrived from Plymouth.
Portsmouth 15 Jul 1833 Arrived from Plymouth, and sailed to the eastward.
Portsmouth 18 Jul 1833 Tried her rate of sailing with the Vestal.
Portsmouth 28 Jul 1833 Sailed on a cruise.
Falmouth 30 Jul 1833 Arrived from Portsmouth.
Falmouth 21 Aug 1833 Arrived from Lisbon (13), and off Oporto (14).
Falmouth 1 Sep 1833 Sailed for Oporto and Lisbon.
Falmouth 6 Oct 1833 Sailed for Oporto, and Lisbon, with mails.
Falmouth 6 Nov 1833 Arrived from Lisbon (27), and Oporto (30).
Portsmouth 8 Nov 1833 Arrived from Lisbon.
Falmouth 11 Dec 1833 Arrived from Plymouth.
Devonport 10 Dec 1833 Sailed for Falmouth to wait for orders.
Falmouth 21 Dec 1833 Sailed for Oporto, and Lisbon, with mails.
Falmouth 26 Dec 1833 Sailed for Oporto, and Lisbon.
Falmouth 28 Jan 1834 Sailed for Portugal.
Plymouth 10 Apr 1834 Sailed to Falmouth with troops for Pendennis Castle.
Portsmouth 26 Apr 1834 Crew fitting out the Royal George yacht for sea.
Portsmouth 14 Jun 1834 Is to be laid up in the absence of the Royal George yacht.
Portsmouth 19 Oct 1834 Sails for Falmouth, to join the packet service.
18 Feb 1835 arrived Falmouth from Lisbon (8th).
Falmouth 6 Mar 1835 sailed for Lisbon, but due to bad weather is subsquently reported to have passed Falmouth on the 9th, having been driven to leeward by the recent gales.
Lisbon 14 Jul 1835 sailed for England with despatches.
Falmouth 23 Aug 1835 arrived with mail from Lisbon (16th).
Falmouth 25 Sep1835 arrived from Lisbon, from whence she sailed on 20th inst..
Plymouth 30 Sep 1835 arrived here Saturday evening last, and was ordered to proceed to the eastward and sailed the same evening.
Portsmouth 14 Nov 1835 has sailed with despatches for the coast of Spain.
Falmouth 2 Jan 1836 is reported to have sailed last Monday for the United States.
Norfolk, Virginia 31 Jan 1836 has arrived.
Portsmouth 5 Mar 1836 arrived Wesnesday from Norfolk Virginia with despatches.
Portsmouth 16 Apr 1836 Pantaloon arrived Thursday from Cork with 26 volunteers for the various ships commissioning, 19 of whom, for the Hercules, will be sent round to Chatham in the Emerald.
Portsmouth 30 Apr 1836 is at Spithead preparing for a passage to Gambia.
Portsmouth 30 Apr 1836 the Partridge is now reported to be a tender to the Royal Yacht Royal George, to replace the Pantaloon.
Portsmouth 8 Oct 1836 has reportedly been on a cruise with the Experimental Squadron, and having experienced bad weather has not returned with the squadron.
Plymouth 20 Oct 1836 Bellerophon, Vanguard, Pembroke, Hercules, Inconstant, Pique, and Pantaloon, the Experimental Squadron, sailed for Lisbon.
Cadiz 2 Nov 1836 Inconstant arrived with the Vanguard, Pique and Pantaloon.
Portsmouth 7 Jan 1837 under orders to sail for the West Indies.
Lisbon 11 Mar 1837 arrived from Falmouth with mail.
Lisbon 5 May 1837 arrived from Falmouth with mail of the 22 Apr.
Lisbon 9 May 1837 sailed for Falmouth with mail.
Lisbon 24 Jun 1837 sailed for Falmouth with mail.
Lisbon 7 Aug 1837 sailed for Falmouth.
23 Feb 1839 at Portsmouth.
27 Feb 1839 Portsmouth, sailed for Liverpool to recruit seamen.
3 Aug 1839 at Portsmouth.
17 Aug 1839 Portsmouth, sailed this afternoon. on a short cruise.
7 Sep 1839 Clerk Mr. E. Alfred Smith, appointed to the Royal George yacht, for service in the Pantaloon.
2 Nov 1839 Portsmouth, sailed with provisions to relieve the homeward bound trade is the chops of the Channel, strong easterly winds preventing them proceeding up the Channel.
28 Dec 1839 Portsmouth, is expected from Plymouth, with supernumeraries; and will have her defects made good on her arrival.
4 Jan 1840 arrived Portsmouth on Monday, from Plymouth, and came into harbour.
8 Feb 1840 Mate F. J. Jamison, appointed from Pantaloon, to the Firebrand.
21 Mar 1840 on fishery protection duties off the Kent and Sussex coast.
25 Apr 1840 Portsmouth sailed to-day for Plymouth.
27 May 1840 Portsmouth, arrived from a cruise.
13 Jun 1840 Portsmouth has returned to cruise off the Sussex coast for the protection of the fishery
24 Jun 1840 Portsmouth, has sailed for the Kent and Sussex coast to resume her fishery protection duties.
11 Jul 1840 Midshipman George J. Loch, appointed to the Royal George, for service in the Pantaloon.
18 Jul 1840 Portsmouth arrived from off Brighton.
14 Aug 1840 Portsmouth sailed for Dublin to raise seamen for general service.
3 Oct 1840 has left Ireland for Plymouth and Portsmouth, with newly raised men for the fleet
8 Oct 1840 Plymouth, arrived on Saturday from Cork, with volunteers, and proceeded the same day for Portsmouth.
10 Oct 1840 Portsmouth, sailed to-day, for Brighton and Hastings, for volunteer seaman.
30 Oct 1840, Portsmouth, arrived from the coast of Sussex with 20 men and sails Sunday to assist the Inconstant in raising seamen at Bantry Bay.
18 Nov 1840 at Cork.
1 Dec 1840 arrived at Portsmouth from Cork with 54 men, and is to be paid off and dismantled, her officers and crew being transferred to the Rapid.
16 Dec 1840 Portsmouth, The Rapid, a new 10 gun brig, is fitting out here to be attached as a tender to the Royal George yacht, in lieu of the Pantaloon, 10, found to require repairs.
4 Sep 1841, Portsmouth, has been commissioned.
4 Sep 1841, Lieutenant W. P. Crozier, of the Wasp, appointed to command the Pantaloon ;
11 Sep 1841, Clerk C. H. Jones, appointed to be Clerk in charge of the Pantaloon ; 11 Sep 1841, Assistant Surgeon T. H. Keown, appointed to the Pantaloon.
25 Sep 1841, Mate A. P. Arkwright, appointed to the Pantaloon.
1 Oct 1841, Portsmouth, taken out of the basin into the harbour..
9 Oct 1841, Assistant Surgeon W. Lawrence, appointed to the Pantaloon.
9 Oct 1841, Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Keown, of the Pantaloon, promoted to Surgeon.
24 Oct 1841, Portsmouth, sails for Liverpool to bring back volunteers for the navy.
30 Oct 1841, Mate L. M. N. Boyd, of the St Vincent, promoted to Lieutenant, and appointed to command the Pantaloon.
26 Oct 1841, Portsmouth, sailed on Tuesday to Bristol, for new-raised men.
6 Nov 1841, Second Master J. Hughes, appointed to the Pantaloon.
16 Nov 1841, Plymouth, arrived from the eastward, for Liverpool.
20 Nov 1841, Portsmouth, arrived from Liverpool, with newly raised men.
27 Nov 1841, Lieutenant C. Lapidge, appointed to the Pantaloon, for the coast of Africa, vice Crozier.
18 Dec 1841, Portsmouth, will proceed to the coast of Africa in about a fortnight,
18 Dec 1841, Clerk in Charge W. H. Bateman, appointed to the Pantaloon.
26 May 1845, after a two days' chase, came up with and sent the ship's boats to take a large slave / pirate ship - the attacking party, as it neared the slaver, was exposed to a heavy fire of round, grape, and canister, but eventually achieved their purpose - see p. 365 at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow
1846 on the East Coast of Africa.
28 Feb 1846 Captured slaver Bella Clara, probably of West Coast of Africa. See below for a newspaper article regarding the capture of a slaver by the Pantaloon. May be not the Bella Clara, but .. .. ..
20 Dec 1848 Coast of Africa.
31 Oct 1849 Tonnage bounty due on Bella Clara payable
30 Aug 1851 Cape of Good Hope
Capture Of A Slaver. (From the Standard)
IT is with sincere pride that we record the exploit, which for chivalrous gallantry has hardly been surpassed during the most stirring period of the late war, and which must satisfy those detractors of our brave seamen who insist that the navy has lost much of the spirit that was wont to animate it, how utterly groundless such a belief really is.
The boats engaged in the affair belonged to the [HMS]Pantaloon, 10, sloop, Commander Edmund Wilson. The prize is a remarkably fine vessel of about 400 tons, polacre rigged, with immense sails. She is of great celebrity on the coast, is armed with four 12-pounders, and had a mixed crew, composed chiefly of Spaniards, amounting to about 60 ; and was equipped for any villanous service, whether slave-dealing or piracy.
The Pantaloon had been baffled in her chase of this vessel, supposed to be a slaver, for two or three days; and it appears, from what our correspondent has stated, the pirate, after leading the Pantaloon away to St. Thomas's, and out-sailing her, doubled on the cruiser, and then ran to Lagos; but Captain Wilson was too old an officer on the coast to be so taken in, and on the morning of the 26th of May, the sloop and the stranger caught sight of each other about two miles distant, off Lagos, becalmed. The pirate hoisted no colours, and the captain of the Pantaloon, desirous of renewing his attentions, sent the cutter and two whale boats under the command of the first lieutenant, Mr. Lewis de T. Prevost, with the master, Mr. J. T. Crout, and the boatswain, Mr. Pasco, with marines and seamen, amounting to about thirty altogether, to make a more intimate acquaintance with the stranger, taking especial care, however, to be fully prepared for a warm reception.
The pirate gave the boats an indication of what they were to expect, as they neared, by opening on them a heavy fire of round shot, grape and canister, in such a spirited style, that, after returning the compliment by a volley of musketry, the boats prepared for hard work. Animated by the show of resistance, each boat now emulated the other in reaching the enemy, the pirate continuing a sharp fire as they steadily advanced, the marines briskly using their muskets. In half an hour from the discharge of the first gun from the pirate the boats of the Pantaloon were alongside, Lieutenant Prevost and Mr. Pasco on the starboard and Mr. Crout, in the cutter, on the port side. The pirate crew, sheltering themselves as much as possible, nevertheless continued to fire the guns, loading them with all sorts of missiles - bullets, nails, lead, &c., and amidst a shower of these our brave sailors and marines dashed on board.
Lieutenant Prevost and his party in the two boats, notwithstanding their hot reception, were soon on the deck of the prize. The master boarded on the port bow, and despite the formidable resistance and danger, followed by one of his boat's crew, actually attempted to enter the port as they were firing the gun from it. He succeeded in getting through, but his seconder was knocked overboard by the discharge; the gallant fellow, however, nothing daunted, was in an instant up the side again, taking part with the master, who was engaged in a single encounter with one or two of the rascals. Having gained the deck after a most determined resistance, they now encountered the pirates hand to hand, when the cutlass and bayonet did the remainder of the work. Lieut. Prevost finally succeeded in capturing the vessel, but the pirates fought desperately, and it was not until seven of their number lay dead on the deck, and seven or eight more. were severely wounded, that they ran below or yielded.
It may naturally be supposed that in such a hard and close struggle the gallant boats' crews did not escape unscathed. We are sorry to say that a fine able seaman: named Henry Jackson, was killed. and a private Royal Marine was so severely wounded that he died a very short time after. The master was severely wounded. Pasco, the boatswain, was slightly wounded, as were also four others : Carrick, the captain's coxswain : Soughton, a quartermaster ; Harmer an able seaman; and a marine, named Freemantle. An able seaman, named Jones, was severely wounded.
The affair has excited a great sensation on the coast, and the men-of-war are loud in their congratulations on the success of the Pantaloon. The general feeling among the squadron is admiration of the gallantry displayed, coupled, however. with ardent wishes for such an opportunity for distinction.