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Tartarus, 1834
Type: Gunvessel ; Armament 4
Launched : 23 Jun 1834 ; Disposal date or year : 1860
BM: 523 tons ; Displacement: 560 tons
Propulsion: Paddle
Machinery notes: 136 hp
Notes:

Designed by Sir W. Symonds.

Portsmouth 11 Oct 1834 Arrived from Chatham, for Yarmouth (IoW) and Plymouth.

Off the Tagus 10 Nov 1834.

13 Jan 1835 is reported to have departed Gibraltar for Malta.

Circa 31 Jan 1835 sailed from Malta for Falmouth.

Woolwich 4 Jul 1835 is reported to have sailed for Malta and Constantinople.

Malta 4 Nov 1835 arrived from the Ionian Islands.

Plymouth 4 Feb 1836 sailed for Falmouth and Malta last Friday, but had to seek shelter in Cawsand Bay due to the the violence of the weather.

24 Mar 1836 arrived Falmouth from Malta (7th).

Malta 21 Aug 1836 is reported to have arrived off Scanderoon 30 Jul., for the mail from India, but none arriving she sailed for Beiroat and Alexandria and has arrived here today, and will be in quarantine for nearly 3 weeks, there still being plague in Egypt.

19 Jan 1839 sailed from Jamaica for Bernuda, with Adm. Paget, recovering from Yellow Jack.

17 Apr 1839 arrived Jamaica from St. Thomas's

Summer, 1848, Constantinople.

20 Dec 1848 Steam vessel. Mediterranean.

30 Aug 1851 Scotland.

9 Feb 1856 Lieut CW Manthorp apptd ; at Woolwich.

10 Feb 1856 Lt Brooker apptd.

12 Feb 1856 Master's Asst RG Blainey apptd ; at Woolwich.